Boon - "Candle" | Track Review
Boon says “Candle” is about how hard we’re all working to toe the line between being functional and overwhelmed, a dizzying task that seems to produce more anxiety than it quells. It’s a whirlwind of a tune, bursting at the seams with manic energy. Brendan Principato’s lyrics evoke the stress that surrounds us like thick humidity.
Sonny Falls - "Stoned, Beethoven Blasting" | Album Review
Goon - "Hour of Green Evening" | Album Review
Goon have the cure for what ails us. Sadly, it’s not systemic reform across both public healthcare and our two-party system. It’s their new album, Hour of Green Evening, an 11-track smorgasbord of earnest folk and lush psych rock that’ll have you feeling something beyond white-hot rage and/or emotional impotence.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (August 1st - August 7th)
Ty Segall - "Hello, Hi" | Album Review
Kal Marks - "My Name Is Hell" | Album Review
For future fans of Kal Marks, My Name is Hell will likely serve as a starting point, as it displays the band at their most accessible yet. Since its inception, Kal Marks has gone through many changes. My Name Is Hell is their first official release since Let The Shit House Burn Down in 2019, and in that time, there have been a few changes in the band.
Wombo - "Fairy Rust" | Album Review
Fairy Rust is the second full length release from Kentucky based 'art-punk' trio Wombo, widening the scope of the band’s angular and twisted powers that have grown immensely in a relatively short amount of time. Wombo have always relied on inventive scrambling of song forms, but there is a bit more development and depth at play this time.
Chat Pile - "God's Country" | Album Review
Chat Pile have made an album that’s as terrifying to listen to as it is deeply lyrically unsettling. To call the bowel-loosening low end of God’s Country the century’s sludgiest is not hyperbole; they deploy a lethal arsenal of detuned sonic bombardment that is nauseating, beautiful, punishing, an ideal foil for the ravings of Raygun Busch.
Extra Arms Discuss "What Is Even Happening Right Now" | A Post-Trash Q&A
Following their 2019 album, Up from Here, Detroit’s Extra Arms have returned with the aptly-titled follow-up, What Is Even Happening Right Now?, with Ryan Allen and co. pulling out all the stops on this one. Allen and Daniel Stover answered some questions about the album’s fruition from writing to recording in a time of social distancing.
Freak Genes - "Strange Charm" | Post-Trash Premiere
Never slowing down, their fifth album, Hologram, is on its way, due out August 19th via Feel It Records (Why Bother?, CLASS, Green/Blue), picking up where last year’s Power Station left off. The band’s nervous and taught brand of synth punk is definitely heavy on the punk and post-punk side of that description, keeping a terse edge and hypnotic din.
Mapache - "Roscoe's Dream" | Album Review
An undeniable electric current runs through the music of Mapache, the LA-based cosmic folk duo comprised of songwriters Clay Finch and Sam Blasucci. Their fourth album, Roscoe’s Dream, is their most fully-realized release to date, a sprawling opus that captures the coastal bohemian charm of their distinct California sound in its purest form.
Throwaway - "DINOSAUR." Music Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Following 2019’s full length debut, Throwaway return with Hand That Takes, out now via FPE Records (The Miami Dolphins, Yea Big, Kamyar Arsani). It’s an album that’s bizarre but bizarrely focused, highlighted through the many jumps and skips in overall tonality, pulling at straws to keep it interesting on their way down into the depths.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (July 18th - July 31st)
Pictoria Vark - "The Parts I Dread" | Album Review
There’s no denying the cult status Park has grown over the past few years. A status so remarkable, it captured the attention of acclaimed independent label Get Better Records, who chose to release Pictoria Vark’s debut LP The Parts I Dread. On it, she does nothing but deliver one of the best indie rock debuts of the year.
Nine of Swords - "Beyond The Swords" Visual Album | Post-Trash Premiere
Philadelphia's Nine of Swords put out one of the year's best punk records with BEYOND THE SWORDS. Today they premiering a full-length visualizer for the album, directed by Shannon Brooks, founding member of Hook&Loop, a Philadelphia-based accessible artist collective and network led by Disabled and Chronically Ill people.
Mol Sullivan - "Deep End Dive" | Post-Trash Premiere
"Deep End Dive" is the first single from the Cincinnati based singer-songwriter, with a charismatic summertime video as well. This single is a precursor to her upcoming debut full length Goose, produced by Sima Cunningham. She sounds resigned, but there is a dark thrill in her voice, she's quietly excited for what's coming next.
Viagra Boys - "Cave World" | Album Review
It is everything you could want a Viagra Boys album to sound like. The thing about Cave World is that it probably won’t convince anyone to change their beliefs, but it’s not trying to. What it does do is point out how absurd some of these things are. It does this perfectly and on top of that it lets the listener have a great time while it does this.
Snakeskin - "Spinning Heart" | Post-Trash Premiere
Snakeskin is set to return with a new full length, Summoning Salt, and while details are hazy, the lead single “Spinning Heart” and its accompanying video are immaculate. From the ominous start to the lush acoustics and slow grooving rhythm, Snakeskin sets up a sweeping landscape of natural tones, tangled, and accented in atmosphere.
Frances Chang - "Support Your Local Nihilist" | Album Review
For Frances Chang, psychedelia can be found in the crosshairs of art rock, freak folk, bedroom punk, and more in a soupy mess of modified consciousness. On her first full-length under her own name, support your local nihilist, all those influences coagulate into an unapologetically honest and intense expression of her irreplicable vantage point.