ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Vangas - "Vangas"
The recent self-titled album by Atlanta band Vangas is a punishing and relentless record. From the first moments of “Chromatic Ascending” to the closing “The Handstand (Pt. 2),” there’s little room to breathe as the band tunnels through a hole of noise for 35 minutes, dragging you along amid some of the year’s most exciting noise rock.
Phil Spector's Gun - "Threads of Disloyalty" | Post-Trash Premiere
Philadelphia-based quartet Phil Spector’s Gun is making raw and riffy rock n roll music. Fronted by Kevin Brusha, alongside Charlie Bones (Mt. Mostly), Zack Bowan (Bad History Month), and Sean Clark (Curse Reverser), they’ve been performing live for a few years now, and their studio debut Highway 61 Exploded is due out 11/3 via BLIGHT. Records.
Consensus Madness - "Confined" | Post-Trash Premiere
Set to release their self-titled debut EP on September 15th via Iron Lung Records, the record provides the perfect soundtrack for a burning world, not necessarily embracing the madness but kicking against it. The quartet are watching the death and destruction of society with a balled up fist, setting a torch to polite expectations.
Allegra Krieger - "I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane" | Album Review
Night Witch - "Host Body" | Post-Trash Premiere
After a decade together, Tallahassee’s Night Witch have decided to call it quits, but not before they share a new record and embark on a farewell tour this Fall. That record, Host Body, is the band’s third full length, a blistering and brutal feminist hardcore record comprised of eight songs in just under nine chaotic minutes.
Black Country, New Road - "Live at Bush Hall" | Album Review
After losing their lead vocalist on the eve of a critically-acclaimed second record, Black Country, New Road emerged with a live album of new material pieced together and tested on the road; the show must go on and all that. The band have ditched much of the postmodern, hyper-referential songwriting on their earlier work in favour of fairy tales, half-remembered dreams and anthropomorphic animals.
Jungle Breed - "Machiavellian" | Post-Trash Premiere
Exercise - "Ipso Facto" | Album Review
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Truth Cult - "Walk The Wheel" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Helvetia - "The Beach At The Edge Of The World"
We can’t overstate the importance of Helvetia, a constant favorite for well over a decade. The impact of its sound and style, the structure, finesse (as well as lack of finesse), has left a profound impression on what this era’s psychedelic music can be. The Beach At The Edge Of The World is a prime example of Helvetia at its absolute best.
Mother Tongues - "Love in a Vicious Way" | Album Review
EXEK - "Welcome To My Alibi" | Post-Trash Premiere
After five increasingly fantastic albums, Melbourne’s EXEK have undoubtably staked their claim as one of this generation’s most forward thinking post-punk bands. Set to release The Map and The Territory on October 6th via Foreign Records, the band’s lush synth explorations continue to be dazzlingly muted but fully immersive.
Shalom - "Sublimation" | Album Review
The collaboration of Ryan Hemsworth’s (Quarter-Life Crisis) electronic music specialty and Shalom Obisie-Orlu’s emotional value produced Shalom’s incredibly solid debut album, Sublimation. The two are said to have “worked seamlessly” as the original seven tracks turned into Hemsworth’s encouraged twelve.
The Lentils - "Hello Jane Goodall, Are You Listening?" | Album Review
Gorgeous - "Sapsucker" | Album Review
Gorgeous is certainly one of the most interesting acts in the scene, a two-piece who has begun to twist the basic principles of math and indie rock, pulling the threads all the way until the seams reach their absolute limit. On a first listen of Sapsucker, what you’re most struck by is most likely the duality of angular guitar and crisp drums.
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Florry - "The Holey Bible"
Some bands just sound like they are up for a good time. Florry are one of those bands. Led by frontperson Francie Medosch, Florry continue to let loose with a rootsy folk/country blend and some truly incisive and often times devastating lyricism on the Philadelphia based band's second full length, The Holey Bible.
Powerplant- "Grass" | Album Review
Across their various efforts, including the awesome Stump Soup, Powerplant seem to shift sonically with an anxious and unknowable energy. That may be, as Grass demonstrates, because they feel time endlessly ticking away and the only way to make it matter is to embrace one’s whims in a battle against this ceaseless march toward obsolescence.