Boldy James & The Alchemist - "Super Tecmo Bo" | Album Review
Widowspeak - "The Jacket" | Album Review
Battle Ave - "I Saw The Egg" | Post-Trash Premiere
With four singles out in the world already, from the haunting “Core” and the breezy “Fool,” to the acoustic sweetness of “Maya” and the emotional heft of “Leo,” the album makes a great case for sonic diversity and the fragility of life, but perhaps all the album’s themes are best captured on the record’s title track, “I Saw The Egg”.
Pinch Points - "Process" | Album Review
Process, the latest from Pinch Points, shows the band have a caustic take on the modern world and its many ongoing societal issues. The band’s sound has become a little more developed and although there is a strain of anxiety and anger that runs through everything here, there is also an excitement that is equally pervasive.
PLOSIVS - "PLOSIVS" | Album Review
PLOSIVS is a modern day So-Cal alt-rock supergroup, helmed by the twin guitars of John Reis (Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From the Crypt, Hot Snakes) and Rob Crow (Thingy, Pinback, and many, many others). This pairing of prolific San Diego powerhouses sets expectations high, and their self-titled debut does not disappoint.
Grocer - "Mountain Home" | Post-Trash Premiere
Numbers Game is an eclectic record that builds upon last year’s Delete If Not Allowed, mining the sound of 90’s alternative rock but reshaping it for modern times. With the band comprised of three vocalists and songwriters, there’s a good deal of dynamics to their music, each one offering a different spin of the cohesive whole.
Mo Dotti - "Guided Imagery" | Album Review
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?