Post-Trash is very pleased to present Winded’s music video for "Heaven is Leaking" from last year's breathtaking EP, Schwartz Provides. Winded's track record of mixing a bit of jangly and earnest sentiment with a crushing sense of despair and intense self-reflection always provides quite a wild ride through a gamut of feelings and states of mind.
These reissues demonstrate an implacable sound by a trio deserving of more attention. Icing and Heroin Man have aged well. Though more serious as their erstwhile benefactors, Butthole Surfers, Cherubs point to how the Texas post-hardcore/noise rock scene cannot be reduced to one band, as famous and indispensable as they might be.
Auratone, the debut LP from NY based quartet Raisalka - a band which consists of members of Baked, Anna Altman, Haybaby, and Rats Mouth - is a release full of swirling guitars, as well as haunting and sweet moments. Isabella Ronayne's vocals trill and often soar above the haze, crunching in astonishing fashion.
Less More shouldn’t be confused with the old adage of “less is more,” a saying that rarely applies to Tundrastomper’s nuanced compositions. The theme seems to be more of a contradictory nature, the push and pull between two sides of a spectrum, less vs. more. Whichever way you go, Tundrastomper offer a path.
My America by Insane Urge is a terse, even flying and fleeting, record. The listener can never catch the band. It feels purely intended to be as such. Their commentary through music and lyrics relates to contemporary times and their punk predecessors. All done in a mad-dash pace, the album clocking in at just over ten minutes.
Patter Theme 2, the second EP by the titular Chicago indie rockers Patter, wastes very little time at just fourteen minutes. While much of the trio’s guitar textures, rhythmic shifts, and understated vocals are reminiscent of 90s post-rock acts like Tortoise or June of 44, the project’s pace is anything but.
Tetchy’s “Married” video is filled with juxtaposition of wild thrashing and raucous partying combined with rituals of the marriage ceremony and events leading up to such. Maggie Denning took some time away from her schedule and shenanigans to respond to some email questions on the future and evolution of the group.
Embarking on their West Coast tour of their third album, Food For Worms, Shame returns to the stage with a reinvigorated joy. The band members’ ties lasted beyond heartbreak, the dislocation of touring, and the fire of creative inspiration. Learning from past albums’ themes of angst and introspection, Food for Worms celebrates the tenacity of friendship.
Their second album Wings of Love (2020) already showed signs of an excellent individual sound, something that is in full force on their latest, Sitting Pretty. It is quite an apt title, as Peter Kegler, who was the leading songwriter on their previous efforts, now gives more limelight to Marley Lix-Jones, both with songwriting and vocals.
Running from the Chase is the sophomore record from North Carolina’s Truth Club, expanding their garage punk sound into knotty and emotional textures that open up the soundscapes innumerably. Their debut album put the listening public on notice, whereas this release shows seasoning and a bit more patience and restraint.
Bungler, the Philadelphia based solo project of Paul Hewes (Snoozer, Idiot Forever), has amassed a large catalog of home-spun indie over the past seven years, balancing fuzzy slacker rock with weary hooks. He’s back again with Light In The Corner, a brilliant new record for Strange Mono (Sandcastle, Ruah, Webb Chapel).
C.O.F.F.I.N haven't so much reinvented the approach of truly vital punk but shown the world another path forward. In a world where everything feels so direct all the time, it's nice to see something truly playful. Not in that it makes drunken slam dancing easier, but rather it says something about this tendency for balance.
Winten, the Naarm/Melbourne based project of Bridgette Winten, uses songwriting more therapeutically than anything on her debut album Waving To My Girl. Writing mostly at night in her bedroom, Winten allows the thoughts that only come to us when we feel alone to map together a cohesive and beautiful journey of recovery.
Just in time for Halloween, Raleigh’s Jenny Besetzt are sharing a brand new music video for “Nite Terrors,” a haunting focal point of their recent album, Goner. Released during the height of summer via Self Aware Records (Amanda X, Myriads), the band’s knack for 80’s post-punk at its most romantic end is full of cinematic plumage.
A. Savage’s new solo record, Several Songs About Fire, is an album that continues the sound of Thawing Dawn while expanding his range of influences. The now vagabond artist talked with Post-Trash’s John Glab about his recent life, the people and places past that went into the album, and how those things might play into the future.
After dropping Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time, the members of Candy Claws were ready to move on to other endeavors. However, online fanatics couldn’t seem to stay away. This third and final album from the group, while generally well received on release, has garnered cult-classic status throughout the past decade.
The Map and The Territory, EXEK’s latest album, never subsists on dread or tension, the sound is rarely claustrophobic, but the sense of mystery is palpable, we’re wandering the unknown. That seems to be by design, as the band worked to create an emphasis on pop structure, but the atmosphere remains vast and disorienting.
Chicago’s Cel Ray already released Cellular Raymond, one of our absolute favorite EPs of the year back in February, and as the well deserved hype around the band continues to grow, they’re getting ready to release another one. Piss Park, their new EP, is due out November 17th via Six Tonnes De Chair Records.
The construction of the trio’s interwoven brand of post-hardcore is brilliant throughout their second album, Making Sounds For Andy. Due out November 17th via Human Worth, Beige Palace’s upcoming album finds the band pushing their songs to sparse limits, every note and beat resonating to its full potential.
