The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)" | Album Review
There are 100 tracks on this reissue, including demos, covers, remixes, alternative mixes, live tracks, story telling, helium voices, and even Sponge Bob. Without going into the weeds of every track, the most interesting ones are the demos. These demos are obviously real and raw, but they also show us how the Yoshimi sausage was made.
Jeff Tobias - "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
"Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror,” one the album’s many highlights, is a radiant ballad, with augmented synths really setting a stunning foundation before the rhythm arrives, snapped into place with a steady beat and syrupy groove. The video, directed by Tobias, opens like a one-man show, with the stage set for him to approach the mic.
Soft Blue Shimmer - "Love Lives In The Body" | Album Review
The latest tracks show audible signs of softer edges than before, flattered by classic shoegaze structures. Love Lives in the Body is a very honest and relatable album as it portrays the spinning feelings of emotional-awareness, the struggle of self-love, and the concept of bordering on the thin line between optimism and delusion.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Richard Dawson - "The Ruby Cord"
The music of Newcastle’s Richard Dawson encompasses a world all its own, a destination not quite past, present, or future, but some weird hodgepodge of all three, where baroque folk music and broken down prog reside with forays into electronic soundscapes, the use of open ambient space, and controlled dissonance.
Red Scarves - "Ghost Hunter" | Album Review
Chicago’s Red Scarves take an imaginative and subversive take on clean cut guitar rock. The immensely talented four piece always seem to reach their destination, but they are intent on taking the scenic route to get there. A winding passage, a turn of phrase; the band chases down beauty taking the long way home.
Rider/Horse - "Feed 'Em Salt" | Album Review
One of the few silver linings of the lockdown was the formation of Rider/Horse, a pairing of Kingston, NY musicians Cory Plump (Spray Paint) and Chris Turco (Trans Am), whose chugging, electro-noise debut was one of the finest albums of 2021. The band returns with a more dense, varied and fully-formed LP, Feed ‘Em Salt.
Historically Fucked - "Seven Eggs For Seven Sisters" | Post-Trash Premiere
Manchester’s Historically Fucked arrive in a state of hysteria almost immediately. It’s really quite something how fast their music crumbles to pieces. Joining a rare breed of bands that include perhaps PRE, Mi Ami, Melt-Banana, and US Maple, the band reside in a space where impulse, chaos, and lunacy meet head-on.
Weyes Blood - "And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow" | Album Review
Mering once again achieves the magic of Titanic Rising on her fifth album And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. Addressing it as the second in a trilogy, it feels like the earthly successor to its watery predecessor. We’re no longer swimming in an ocean with our fears above sea level: we’ve risen to the shore and have to live alongside them.
Horse Lords - "Comradely Objects" | Album Review
Comradely Objects is arguably the most platonic release of the quartet's quintessential style they have concocted to date; everything falling in its right place doing exactly what music is supposed to. The sound on these seven cuts accomplishes a task the band has been inching towards and actively ace.
Thousandaire - "Coward" | Post-Trash Premiere
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Full Of Hell - "Aurora Leaking From An Open Wound" | Album Review
Full of Hell is back if only for a brief moment, six minutes and 44 seconds to be exact, with what was a tour-exclusive EP, Aurora Leaking from an Open Wound. For what this release lacks in length, it more than makes up for it with intensity, noise, and riffs, an excellent addition to Full of Hell’s catalog of death metal-influenced grindcore.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Alien Nosejob - "Stained Glass"
Jake Robertson has made all types of music throughout his relatively short career as Alien Nosejob. From punk and garage-rock to power-pop, we now get Stained Glass, a celebration of rock n’ roll music in its purest form. Punchy classic rock riffs, catchy melodies, and absolutely blistering guitar solos kick this adrenaline-filled record into an untapped level of marvelous frenzy.
Nightshift - "Made Of The Earth" | Album Review
With the Glasgow, Scotland collective Nightshift, it seems we can actually talk about both intellectual lyrics and music. The band only started in 2019, comprising four musicians already playing elsewhere - Eothen Stearn, Chris White, Andrew Doig, and Georgia Harris. We encounter that intellectual tag right from the start.
Blessed - "Circuitous" | Album Review
Hearts In Exile - "Language Is The House" | Post-Trash Premiere
In the years since we last heard from Graham Brouder, he’s returned to Virginia, this time situating in Richmond, and the music that he previously wrote solo has turned into a new band, Hearts In Exile. With a self-titled album in the works, the band introduce themselves over the jangly crawl of the record’s lead single, “Language Is The House”.
Smirk - "Material" | Album Review
Ten tracks of tangled, anxious but melodic punk, Material is the latest from Smirk, the solo project of Los Angeles guitarist Nick Vicario (Public Eye, Crisis Man). The followup to two 2021 releases, the album typifies the punchy, lo-fi aesthetic of the Feel It roster, while embracing both ‘70s-flavored rock guitar jams and jittery new wave of the ‘80s.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Blacklisters - "Leisure Centre"
Delivery - "Forever Giving Handshakes" | Album Review
Melbourne’s Delivery evolve their sound and vibe with debut album Forever Giving Handshakes. Channeling wiry post-punk as much as psyched-out garage and hooky power-pop, Handshakes rides a wavering line between tightly-wound momentum and raucous partying, the result a collection of nervy, shout-along earworms.