Marina Allen - "Centrifics" | Album Review
As an object in itself, the album feels utterly unstuck from time. It’s evocative of the Laurel Canyonites of the late sixties, sure, but it refuses to paint within those lines. What sets it apart are Marina Allen’s voice and the landscape which surrounds it, and it’s in the interplay of these that a third, intangible thing emerges.
TVOD - "Alien" | Post-Trash Premiere
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (September 19th - October 2nd)
Tropical Fuck Storm - "Moonburn" | Album Review
While “Moonburn” and “Aspirin - Slight Return” would make for a stellar 7-inch, two additional cover songs really make this cassette an essential listen. Clocking in around fifteen minutes, Moonburn still captures the expansive vibes of earlier TFS albums like Braindrops and Deep States—records for a long drive down a lysergic highway.
Thanya Iyer - "Rest" | Album Review
Hellrazor - "Heaven's Gate" | Album Review
Michael Falcone writes deceiving melodies reminiscent of numerous 90's era callbacks and emotional slack but with an extra bite from blurring guitar squeals or frenetic drum fills. The trio has a wit about them that is quite appealing and a sense of levity keeps everything from getting too deep into the encroaching gloom.
Alex G - "God Save The Animals" | Album Review
Alex G is full of questions on God Save The Animals but intentionally avoids easy answers. It’s a record filled with anxiety but finds solace in the fractured nature of change. It’s a record with a whole lot of references to God but finds sanctification in the chaos rather than the structure of religion.
Convinced Friend - "White Collar" | Post-Trash Premiere
Nolan Potter - "Music Is Dead" | Album Review
The Reds, Pinks & Purples - "Is Your Mind That Free?" | Post-Trash Premiere
It feels like Glenn Donaldson plucks his songs out of mid-air. The hyper-prolific San Franciscan’s latest project, The Reds, Pinks and Purples, continues the tradition of catchy Bay Area pop. The second single from the upcoming Slumberland mini-LP, They Only Wanted Your Soul allows Donaldson’s bitter assertion to cut through clearly.
Tedward - "Ablona" | Post-Trash Premiere
Set to release a new record in 2023, Tedward are sharing their latest single, “Ablona,” a song about a pilgrimage to see a rare performance from a favorite band in a fictional Ohio town. From the warped pull of the overdrive to the sweetened vocal melody, Terence Lee sets an immediate tone, capturing the lo-fi fuzz and melodic heft.
Weak Signal - "Consolation" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
In anticipation for their upcoming hometown show and the Pavement dates, Weak Signal are sharing a video for WAR&WAR’s “Consolation,” one of the record’s more ominous tracks. The track itself, while subdued and shadowy, takes influence in the opposite, derived from a Simone Weil quote, “Love is not consolation. It is light.”
They Are Gutting A Body of Water & A Country Western - "An Insult to the Sport" | Album Review
They Are Gutting a Body of Water and fellow Philly band A Country Western throw a barrage of different sounds at the listener and all of them stick. This five song split is ambitious in its transitions between styles and continues in the same vein as TAGABOW’s 2021 split EPCOT, which oscillated between shoegaze and breakcore.
Sweet Pill - "Where The Heart Is" | Album Review
Yucky Duster - "III" | Album Review
Having played their final show on September 18th, Yucky Duster should be remembered as one of the most happy-go-lucky, ambitiously melodic, and vocally harmonic bands today. They created a brand of twee-pop with genuine fun – like conversational rants in between verses fun – along with utterly standalone and versatile melodies.
Dr Sure's Unusual Practice + Bench Press - "A Split 7" Between Friends" EP | Post-Trash Premiere
Doug Martsch of Built to Spill on the Pros and Cons of Recording Alone | Feature Interview
Tan Cologne - "Earth Visions of Water Spaces" | Album Review
Earth Visions Of Water Spaces is grounded in an elemental ethos while retaining the band’s likeness for entertaining celestial questions. As on their previous showing, they again display a knack for transforming simple phrases into hypnotic mantras and restrained instrumental passages into tempered progressions of mystifying proportion.
