Teenanger - "Good Time" | Album Review
Good Time is a record that shows all of what Teenanger have learned from the past decade and continues to explore a bit of a newer direction from the earlier days of the band. The urgency and wise cracking are still evident, but there is more time to stretch out and explore musical territories and influences on a greater scale.
Cower - "Midnight Sauce" | Post-Trash Premiere
While the band certainly incorporate elements of deranged noise rock into their sound, they more often lean into a spookier goth croon to anchor their bludgeoning. “Midnight Sauce,” the second single from BOYS highlights that side of their output, a song filled with terror and menace but drawn together with a silky vocal performance.
Cordoba - "Specter" | Album Review
Cordoba is a group of politically and socially driven individuals committed to radical social change in resistance to the oppressive systems in place. The six-piece jazz fusion group formed at University of Chicago, but has since breached the bubble of higher education by connecting with like-minded musicians in DIY spaces.
Shimmertraps - "Atrium" | Post-Trash Premiere
Adrianne Lenker - "instrumentals" | Album Review
In almost every imaginable way, instrumentals is an unconventional record, especially when listened to in conjunction with songs, an effort laden with deliberateness and structural warmth. Still, instrumentals is a worthwhile amalgamation of ambient instrumentation that soothes and invigorates any willing ear.
Airhead DC - "Condo 2" | Post-Trash Premiere
Following a string of releases including 2018’s Crush-Hi, Airhead DC return with a brand new EP, Busted Sermon, an expansive swirl of warped lo-fi psych and homegrown bedroom pop. The solo project of Vishal Narang has steadily grown over the years to include new influences and sounds, dipping into territory less traveled.
Adrianne Lenker - "songs" | Album Review
Footings - "Later Days" | Post-Trash Premiere
Tashi Dorji - "Stateless" | Album Review
Before you even hear its music it’s clear that this record is an address, but whereas past missives were calls to arms this one postures more as a plea for contemplation: more than do, Stateless wants you to think — even to hope. It has stakes subtler than Dorji’s other political records, and this makes the guitarist seem more present.
Susie Derkins - "Gutless" | Post-Trash Premiere
The Chives - "The Chives Buy Guns" | Post-Trash Premiere
Widowspeak - "Plum" | Album Review
Metz - "Atlas Vending" | Album Review
Lisa/Liza - "Red Leaves" | Post-Trash Premiere
Shelter of a Song, due out November 20th via Orindal Records shines with its own dim lit glow and comfort that comes from a place of patience and introspection. Built on an ever growing stretch of atmosphere, Liza Victoria’s songs look into the depths of mourning and loss, reworking those feelings into a meditative beauty
Thibault - "Or Not Thibault" | Album Review
Or Not Thibault is the first record from Nicole Thibault, formerly of Minimal Chips, with some help from other Aussie underground bands in the likes of Parsnip and The Ocean Party. Thibault relies on spacey and swirling melodies with a bit of a Sarah Records influence in its slightly askew outlook on the world and wide-eyed songwriting.
Landowner - "Old Connecticut Money" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Holyoke, MA’s Landowner are never short on words. With the band’s excellent sophomore album, Consultant, out now via Born Yesterday Records (Dummy, Stuck, Red Tunic) their scathing takedown of systemic racism via political agendas, the upper class, and disparities of resources is all delivered with an appropriate agitation.
Swing Kids - "Anthology" (Reissue) | Album Review
This wasn’t music you could dance to. If you tried, it would just look like a person high on caffeine, shaking and convulsing with no discernible rhythm. It trafficked outside of the predictable 4/4 rhythm. This was hardcore’s version of jazz music— frenetic and frenzied, with no care to what came before.
Powerplant - "A Spine / Evidence" | Album Review
Beginning as a solo project of vocalist/instrumentalist Theo Zhykaryev, the project soon grew legs and became a quartet, combining all things unique of eggpunk and all things doom of post-punk. Across the EP, their off-kilter sound is hallmarked by the speed and force coming from the use of both the analog synths and ripping drums.
