The music speaks for itself, and on Site Out Of Mind, the music says a lot. The band itself calls it “garage-soul,” and that's definitely a nice way of tying it together, but the palette of sounds on their new record reaches far beyond garage and far beyond soul, where 70s style psychedelia fuses with the guitar tones of 60s garage.
On Blue Skies, with the increased recording budget offered by Fat Possum Records, the group builds upon their sonic foundation for the first time. Synthesizers, shimmering guitar overdubs, and more vocal layers than possibly live-performable combine to transform the songs into larger-than-life versions of themselves.
Each track exemplifies Alex Reindl’s knack of working songs into both solo and full band arrangements. “Feelin’ Far” plays like an all-timer party, “Everybody” like the sobering comedown. The first track is an expanding, upbeat piano tune with a full band breakdown. The acoustic B-side is raw and grounding, an honest and melancholic counterpoint.
A Light for Attracting Attention lives an independent existence, and yet carries with it a baggage that comes from a sound that touches on OK Computer, The Bends, and even Amnesiac. The baggage is comprehensive, complex, but not weighty, because Yorke and Greenwood's cross-media paths offer an endless array of suggestions.
Portrait of a Lady stems from Shilpa Ray’s own experience as a survivor of abuse and works outward through the larger cultural context. In wry, slow-burning ballads and synth-laden scorched-earth rockers, Ray comes on unfiltered and unequivocal. After the release, Ray spoke to Post-Trash about the struggle to be heard among her fellow musicians and the troubling political landscape her Portrait was painted on.
Fuck Money (Future Death, BLXPLTN) embrace noise in all its shapes and forms, weaving together punk, industrial, no wave, and elements of hardcore. Having just wrapped up a string of dates with Deaf Club, the band are sharing their latest single, “Heart Throb,” a song that obliterates your senses with a wall of manipulated sound.
Cola started with friends trading song ideas and demos over the course of lockdown and what better time to announce new music then when you are retiring an old band? What resulted is the record Deep in View, and fans of Ought will be delighted to know that it has a very similar appeal, due to Darcy’s distinct vocal delivery style.
It’s been less than five months since Green/Blue released their excellent sophomore album, Offering, but the Minneapolis based band are back with a new record, their second of the year. Paper Thin, the latest from the quartet led by Jim Blaha (The Blind Shake) and Annie Sparrows, is due out June 10th via Feel It Records.
Abronia make psych rock with influences from around the world, a comprehensive mix of mind expanding music that pulls inspiration from the Saharan desert, Canterbury folk, and spaghetti Westerns. A sound without regionality, they add elements of drone, jazz, and pastoral doom to create something thats lost in time and space
To listen to any one Kamikaze Nurse song would leave a vastly incomplete picture of their sound, one that is as fluid as it is accessible. Having shared the dreamy gaze of “Boom Josie” and the pop bombast of “Come From Wood,” Kamikaze Nurse’s third single gives a touch of the band’s weirder side, and it’s one of the record’s stand-outs.
I Could Get Used to This sounds like nothing you’ll hear this year, as Spring Silver continues to push their sound through distinct stylistic choices and lean, undeniable songwriting. Post-Trash was lucky enough to chat with K Nkaza about community collaboration, emotions in songwriting, the year 2008 and more.
At this place in space/ time, there is an absolute aura around Tha God Fahim. With a constant, steady flow, ciphered from the ether, there seems no slowing Fahim - he has tapped into our divine consciousness, leveeing the spring to run like a river, and crafting soundscapes in the elegantly sophisticated fashion of legends.
Trevor Nikrant is one-third of Nashville’s Styrofoam Winos. This past November, he released Tall Ladders, a riveting collection of psych-tinged pop and folk rock, traversing a vast spectrum of settings and psyches. Post-Trash’s Joe Guiterrez met up with Nikrant to chat about his songwriting process, David Berman, and Nashville.
Nate Mendolsohn has a few other releases of mostly rough and scratchy lo-fi type sketches under his belt as Market, however on this record there is an ever shifting psychedelic hue and a touch of folk influenced honesty. His songs become fully fleshed out with his band providing ample counterparts to the slightly twisted arrangements
