Wednesday - "Twin Plagues" | Album Review
Space Mountain - "Good Lies" | Post-Trash Premiere
Celestial Force, the sixth album under the Space Mountain moniker, finds Kinsler collaborating with Will Henriksen and Rachel Saltzman, lending violin and saxophone, respectively. Due out September 17th via Dust Etc label, there’s a wide expanse to the twang and rust of the songs, portraits of vast landscapes with a certain sense of stillness.
Red Fang - "Arrows" | Album Review
Their fifth release (and fourth from Relapse Records), Arrows, finally sees the group match their colorful personality with a bright, psychedelic aesthetic. Chugging tracks like “Unreal Estate” and “Anodyne” will please the old fist-pumping fans, and the punk-adjacent “My Disaster” and “Rabbits in Hives” show they can still kick it into high gear.
Sunk Heaven - "THE FVCKHEAѪTED LVNG" | Album Review
THE FVCKHEAѫTED LVNG is the latest full-length studio album from Sunk Heaven. Standing at around 38 minutes, this release breezes by considering how layered and intricate it feels. Pulling from industrial, no-wave, and even occasionally IDM and harsh noise, this release never stays in the corner of one particular sub-genre.
Fashion Pimps And The Glamazons - "L.A. County Critters" | Post-Trash Premiere
The outrageously named Fashion Pimps and the Glamazons are digging deep into the punk sludge on their debut album, Jazz 4 Johnny. Due out August 20th via Feel It Records, the Cleveland based band (mems of The Cowboy, Cloud Nothings, Donkey Bugs) make punk at its most sordid, with elements of no-wave and noise rock in the mix.
Astral Swans - "Flood" | Post-Trash Premiere
It’s been three years since Astral Swans’ last full length, Strange Prison, but today the project has announced a new self-titled album, due out October 8th via Victory Pool Records, an album said to be written in Swann’s head while taking walks around various cities (pre-pandemic) and then the same city (during the pandemic).
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Perfect Angels - "Exit From The Ultra-World" | Album Review
Perfect Angels is Zach Phillips on any instrument you can think of together with a lead singer Olia Eichenbaum, as well as a cast of revolving collaborators. Musically, the project creates exquisite off-kilter soft pop, with bossa nova as some sort of a base, with Phillips, Eichenbaum and their cohorts going off in every direction.
Pink Siifu - "Gumbo'!" | Album Review
Sweet Williams' Thomas House Discusses "What's Wrong With You," Spain vs Brighton DIY, and Three Reluctant Dudes | Feature Interview
Sweet Williams is the brainchild of Brighton’s Thomas House, a veteran of the DIY music scene and a musician whose drive to create is seemingly limitless. Post-Trash’s Dominic Acito connected with House via Zoom to discuss his writing process, the DIY scene in Spain, and his first experiences learning an instrument.
Birds of Maya - "Valdez" | Album Review
Valdez, the most recent release by Philadelphia's psychedelic rock masters/champions Birds Of Maya, represents the shared momentary humanistic expressions of creative freedom aesthetic to absolute perfection; an exiled memory in the apocalyptic nightmare - one which has the ability to awaken a drifting consciousness from its haze.
Normil Hawaiians - "Ventilation" | Post-Trash Premiere
The past few years has seen Upset The Rhythm reissuing both of Normil Hawaiians’ classic albums as well as their “lost” record, Return of the Ranters. After a short pause, the reissues continue with Dark World, a new collection of the band’s earliest recordings from 1979 to 1981, comprised of their rawest pre-More Wealth Than Money output.
Delivery - "Yes We Do" | Album Review
A classically-amalgamated DIY project from Melbourne, the five-piece comes from several other bands, including Future Suck, Kosmetika, Blonde Revolver, and The Vacant Smiles. Yes We Do, was released via the always reliable Spoilsport Records, using post-punk as a mere base to build new wave synths, pop flourishes, and garage guitars.
This Is Lorelei - "EP #21" | Album Review
The Murlocs - "Bittersweet Demons" | Album Review
Melbourne’s The Murlocs return with their fifth album to provide some much-needed bluesy brightness to listener’s lives. Bittersweet Demons, again released by the excellent Flightless Records, courses on a long and winding path, each turn infectious and melodious. It’s a soulful and rowdy record, rollicking and ballsy.
Dummy - "Daffodils" | Post-Trash Premiere
Sometimes all that has come before can’t prepare you for what comes next, which could be said about Mandatory Enjoyment, Dummy’s full length debut, out October 22nd via Trouble In Mind Records (Mountain Movers, FACS). It’s not so much that they’ve taken a hard stylistic turn from their EPs as much as they’ve distilled it down to perfection.
Teke::Teke - "Shirushi" | Album Review
How about some mutant Japanese surf from Toronto? Well, if you didn't have a chance to previously encounter this seven-piece band through their singles, Shirushi, the debut album by Teke::Teke, is a perfect start. Actually, it is a perfect start for all of us, as it is an excellent surprise, out of almost nowhere.
Smile Machine - "Bye For Now" | Album Review
Smile Machine may be a new name, but Jordyn Blakely is most definitely a familiar face on the music grid, having drummed for a cadre of who's who in the "indie" music universe. On Bye for Now, Blakely places herself front and center of a muscular and versatile EP that shows off her range as a musician and so much more.
BRNDA - "Service Loser" | Post-Trash Premiere
Do You Like Salt? captures the band at their artist punk best, engineered by Dischord staple Justin Moyer. Due out 8/20 via Crafted Sounds, it’s an album that finds its own groove, sputtering and darting around impeccably tight rhythms and an irreverent sense of humor, drawing comparisons to bands past (PYLON) and present (Fake Fruit).