Great Falls - "Objects Without Pain" | Album Review
Objects Without Pain is a trick mirror in its aural attack on convention, appearing both flawed and flawless. Dissonant chords make songs sound out-of-tune, song structures writhe like trapped reptiles, vocals scream at the unhinged limit of the human larynx. Listening to the album is akin to watching trains collide in slow motion.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: MIKE - "Burning Desire"
Katie Von Schleicher - "A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night" | Album Review
With her new record, Katie Von Schleicher's songs take a softer approach, full of luscious keyboards and a renewed comfort in the stripped down arrangements, punctuated with thoughtful strings by frequent collaborator Gabriel Birnbaum. Von Schleicher is in a reflective mood, touching on personal growth and strengths.
Lync - "These Are Not Fall Colors" (Reissue) | Album Review
These Are Not Fall Colors lets its emotional power do a lot of the heavy lifting. Sam Jayne's songwriting is vague and occasionally impenetrable, but the execution is energizing and intense. He may have had a bit more success with Love as Laughter, but Lync brought together seemingly odd influences, pushing them in unexpected directions.
Flower Festival - "Stolen" (feat. Nicholas Krgovich) | Post-Trash Premiere
Age, out January 26th via Moone Records and Anxiety Blanket Records, is an album transfixed on life’s changes, a farewell to the one’s past self and an appraisal of where life’s lemons have left him. While the path of his life is obviously deeply personal, Dailey isn’t alone throughout the record, bringing some stalwart musicians along for the journey..
DJ Muggs - "Soul Assassins 3: Death Valley" | Album Review
The hottest, driest place in America is a fitting reference point for prolific LA beatmaker DJ Muggs — whose trademark production is frequently dust-filled and eerie, with little room for frills. That approach is on display throughout Soul Assassins 3: Death Valley, a new installment in his decades-long series of region-hopping rap showcases.
Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse - "Giddy Skelter" | Album Review
SPLLIT - "Bevy Slew" | Post-Trash Premiere
Infinite Hatch is a major statement of a record, the duo of Marance and Urq showing incredible growth while remaining true to their sound and vision. One of the year’s more exciting albums, each song a piece of the greater whole, capturing the band’s acidic knack for unlikely melodies together with their immaculate sense of personality.
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Babehoven - "Light Moving Time" | Album Review
Winded - "Heaven Is Leaking" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
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.
Cherubs - "Icing (2023 Remaster)" + "Heroin Man" | Album Review
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.
Raisalka - "Auratone" | Album Review
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.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Tundrastomper - "Less More"
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.
Insane Urge - "My America" | Album Review
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 - "Patter Theme 2" | Album Review
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 Discuss New Singles "Married" and "Voices" | Post-Trash Q&A
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.
Charlie Steen Embraces Shame | Feature Interview
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.
Half Stack - "Sitting Pretty" | Album Review
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.