Bodega - "Broken Equipment" | Album Review
Bodega welcome 2022 with their third full length, Broken Equipment, carrying on their acerbic and pointed songwriting full of anti-capitalist sentiments and nervy energy that wriggles and bounces all over the place. On this record, front person Ben Hozie slightly softens the songwriting approach of previous releases.
Posmic - "My Oh Mind" | Post-Trash Premiere
The Baltimore/DC project formed in late 2019, sticking together through a global pandemic and many, many, wildly convenient MARC train rides. Sun Hymns is the name of their brief and easy debut and today we’re premiering “My Oh Mind,” a warm and steady lo-fi pop number that shows how Posmic makes things look easy.
Earl Sweatshirt - "Sick!" | Album Review
Mach-Hommy - "Balens Cho (Hot Candles)" | Album Review
Vein.fm - "This World Is Going To Ruin You" | Album Review
Last year was full of a lot of metalcore releases, with new stuff from Converge, The Armed and the final release from Every Time I Die leading the charge. Vein.fm’s This World Is Going to Ruin You shows that 2022 is looking like another promising year for the genre. The album wears its influences on its sleeves.
The Serfs - "Primal Matter" | Album Review
Primal Matter was worth the three-year wait. The Cincinnati-based post-punk band continues their minimal wave impulse and leans heavier on melodies and grooves to elevate the songs into a tremendous sonic aerospace. The drum and bass have more direction, while the production creates a polychromatic musical feast.
Emily Rose and The Rounders - "Emily Rose and The Rounders" | Album Review
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (February 14th - February 27th)
Spring Silver - "O Kristi" | Post-Trash Premiere
We’re premiering the Jhariah, Marco Sah, and Sam Goblin-featuring track “O Kristi,” a cutting punk number aimed at South Dakota governor Kristi Noem. A former South Dakota resident themself, they express disappointment and rightfully criticizes the representative’s voluntary decision to turn the state into a record-breaking COVID Petri dish.
Naja Naja - "Dong Dong" | Post-Trash Premiere
Naja Naja are a post-punk duo based in Beijing, China, set to release their self-titled debut EP shortly via Wharf Cat Records (US) and Bié Records (China). With their introductory single, “Dong Dong,” the duo of Gou Gou and Yuhao are creating music to escape within, experimental pop songs with a krautrock core.
Nyokabi Kariuki - "Peace Places: Kenyan Memories" | Album Review
Nyokabi Kariuki’s Peace Places: Kenyan Memories is an EP worth thinking about in regards to the language of the abstract. Over the twenty eight minutes, you never hear a synthesizer. In its place there are voices harmonizing melodies, humming out a scripture of its own accord, communicating in languages that tie Kariuki’s six songs.
Godcaster | Feature Interview
While technically an extension of 2020’s Long Haired Locusts, last year’s Saltergasp presented the band in a different light, subverting the tongue-in-cheek funk rock gestures of their debut into thrashing, high tempo motifs and noise-scrambled shreds of wailing riffs. The band spoke about their songwriting, playing live, and the future of their sound.
Goon - "Paint By Numbers, Vol. 1" | Album Review
Kenny Becker remade Goon with new members and recorded Paint By Numbers, Vol. 1, their most cohesive release to date. Made in the style of early Goon – on a tape machine in Becker’s apartment and their rehearsal space – PBN1 may harken back to Goon’s developmental phase in spirit, but the songs are forward-thinking.
EXEK - "Parricide is Painless" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Aside from the album’s stand-out singles, “Parricide is Painless” is another highlight, on an album that’s spoiled with them. The song opens with a slinky bass and clipped snares, the entire atmosphere given a Lynchian lounge treatment. The video, directed by Alexandra Millen, sits somewhere between surrealism and dread.
MOD CON - "Modern Condition" | Album Review
Tomato Flower - "Gold Arc" | Album Review
Poorly Drawn House Share "Home Doesn't Have Four Walls" LP Influences | Post-Trash Feature
Poorly Drawn House are a trio from Spartanburg, South Carolina that create an intricate blend of slowcore and post-rock, with lush dynamics and creeping tension. Out now via Candlepin Records, Poorly Drawn House were kind enough to share some of the influences that lead to Home Doesn’t Have Four Walls with us.
Operator Music Band - "Deep Break" | Album Review
It’s been almost three years since the Brooklyn electronic trio released their second LP, Duo Duo—the strongest expression of the group’s krautrock, art-pop and occasionally post-punk sensibilities thus far. Deep Break is three songs long, which according to the band’s Twitter were taken from an aborted full-length album.
