Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (March 14th - March 20th)
Star Party - "Meadow Flower" | Album Review
The sound of Meadow Flower isn’t confined to the boundaries of genre so much as it is marked by high-energy. Drawing from elements of garage, punk, and bits of surfy riffs, Star Party compose fuzzy, hectic textures inscribed in undeniably fun hooks. Meadow Flower is imaginative and catchy as it raucous.
Boris - "W" | Album Review
For W, the companion piece to 2020’s NO, the rowdiness is dialed back towards an icy, dreamy landscape with movements that make the listener feel so weightless that one has to wonder if the record has medicinal properties. W is still just as intense as its predecessors, but the intensity manifests - and thus affects - in a transfixing way.
Vintage Crop - "Double Slants" | Post-Trash Premiere
SASAMI - "Squeeze" | Album Review
Jeanines - "Don't Wait For A Sign" | Post-Trash Premiere
The band are set to release their sophomore album, Don’t Wait For A Sign, on April 22nd via Slumberland Records, a record that takes the formula of their already great debut and improves it in every way. The production is more radiant, the arrangements are top-notch, and the vocals are full of warmth.
Yautja - "The Lurch" | Album Review
Throughout The Lurch, the band repeatedly pulls the proverbial rug out from the listener. The album is a thing in constant motion, always changing. Noise, thrash, speed, bonkers time-changes, The Lurch has it all. Contortionist riffs and sprinting rhythms double back on themselves like ascending switchbacks on a mountain pass.
Scrunchies - "Parallel" | Post-Trash Premiere
Scrunchies return with Feral Coast, their second album, due out April 1st via Dirtnap Records and State Champion Records. The new album picks up where the first left off, big enormous riffs (that often serve as hooks), melodic earworms cutting through the dissonance, and a heavy pummel that grinds with wall of sound density.
Katie Dey - "Forever Music" | Album Review
forever music, Dey’s fifth proper solo release, sees the Melbourne experimental pop artist taking a bold new approach. As her first self-released album, she sheds much of the vocal filtering and overlapping tracks that defined her earlier work, often feeling more intimate than the previous album’s already open-hearted art pop.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (February 28th - March 13th)
Pinch Points Discuss Balancing Hope and Pessimism on "Process" | Feature Interview
Pinch Points remain steadfast in their righteous anger. For all the ways the world has changed since the release of their 2019 debut, the list of alarms to sound has only gotten longer in the wake of ongoing environmental catastrophe. The band’s Acacia Coates and Adam Smith spoke to Post-Trash about their first professional recording experience and navigating the relationships between people and social systems.
Babehoven - "Sunk" | Album Review
Sometimes it is hard to connect the title of an album or EP to the music enclosed, but that is not a problem here. In these excruciatingly hard times, Babehoven’s Maya Bon asks an equally hard question that connects all the songs here - what if we decide to exclude ourselves from everything that makes it so hard?
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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.