Armand Hammer - "We Buy Diabetic Test Strips" | Album Review
We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is an intense listen at 53 minutes with psychedelic rewards. Most of the production puts the listener into a daze—instrumental transitions jump to and fro alongside snippets of telephone calls. If you’re dialed into the album enough, you may wonder how soon the apocalypse is arriving.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Marnie Stern - "The Comeback Kid"
Marnie Stern's name remained stuck in the minds of modern rock fans. With a mention of Stern comes her always incredible guitar technique, never showing off, but always played with purpose. She’s back with another incredible offering, aptly titled The Comeback Kid, pushing forward without sacrificing her musical sense.
CLASS - "If You've Got Nothing" | Album Review
Blank The Page: A Conversation with Dippers | Feature Interview
Dippers came for a chat with Post-Trash’s Chris Liberato during their recent US tour. Drinking iced tea and petting the dog, Matthew Ford and Innez Tulloch talked about the process of making Clastic Rock, the freedom a sampler has given them in the live setting, and using a thesaurus to drill down more precisely on certain feelings.
Teenage Halloween - "Till You Return" | Album Review
Teenage Halloween has been an unstoppable force within the New Jersey scene since 2014, playing non-stop energetic live shows and touring relentlessly. Now, almost ten years later, the most fun band in New Jersey is back with Till You Return, the highly anticipated follow up to their self titled debut record.
Rid of Me - "Access To The Lonely" LP | Post-Trash Premiere
Access to the Lonely is certainly aggressive, but it lashes in a way that’s too carefully considered to be pure rage. Sure, “Libertarian Noise Rock” flies off the handle, with a shredding 80s thrash metal guitar solo from World Below’s Alex Cheskis, but many of the album’s best moments are more patient.
All Structures Align - "Wait Here's Something" | Post-Trash Premiere
Feefawfum - "100" | Album Review
Oakland’s Feefawfum makes anxious math rock. They’re a five-piece helmed by the uber-talented Farley Miller and their latest release is the full length 100. The album is an unpredictable tour de force of nervous noise, technical musicianship, and startling hooks that taps into the musical chemistry of the five performers.
Erik Nervous - "Innanet" | Post-Trash Premiere
Following a great record with The Beta Blockers and the subsequent Bugs!, the time has come for Immaturity, out November 3rd via Feel It / FatCat Records. A fixture of Indiana’s punk scene and beyond, Erik Nervous is back doing his thing, marking a new level of achievement for his animated post-punk and power-pop squalor.
Gareth Liddiard - "The Bootlick Series Volume 1 (Live 2006-2016)" | Album Review
Talking Kind - "It Did Bring Me Down" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: SPLLIT - "Infinite Hatch"
Infinite Hatch opens up a new realm in SPLLIT’s expanding galactic journey. The Baton Rouge duo dive into the deep end on their second full length, and they’ve created a masterpiece in the process. From songs that sound like bugged out pinball games to laser driven art punk odysseys, the layered eccentricities are tight yet discombobulated.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (October 16th - October 29th)
Zowy - "Beware Magical Thinking" | Post-Trash Premiere
Zoë Wyner has been busy writing for Zowy, a new solo project. Taking shape over the past year, Beware Magical Thinking is the first release under the new moniker, due out January 12th via Lost Sound Tapes. The project finds Wyner handling all the instrumentation, with a vision that feels beautifully nuanced.
Cherry Glazerr - "I Don't Want You Anymore" | Album Review
Over the past ten years, Cherry Glazerr has transitioned through many sounds, aesthetics, textures, and feelings. On their most recent offering, I Don’t Want You Anymore, they enter the realms of sugary indie rock, fuzzy garage rock, and shimmery electro pop, all with a distinctively femme underpinning.
Queen Serene - "Queen Serene" LP | Post-Trash Premiere
Throughout their debut album, Queen Serene sound fully realized, dipping between dream pop, post-punk, krautrock, shoegaze, and fuzzy indie rippers, each song offering something new. There’s cohesion in spades, but the self-titled record feels like an unraveling of ideas, expanding as it plays, providing a welcome sense of dynamics.
I'm Into Life Records - "#1" | Album Review
What is experimental rock, anyways? I’m Into Life Records, the LA/Kingston based label, is hunting for an answer, exploring every -wave and no-wave at the same time, building community along the way. With every artist that stretches their limits, we’re closer to finding out. #1 is the cumulation of East Coast Weird contemporaries.
See Jazz - "1982" | Post-Trash Premiere
See Jazz is decidedly not jazz, but reality does feel augmented throughout Is This Anything?, the debut album from Aaron Pfannebecker’s solo project. With a sound rooted in bedroom pop, See Jazz is wandering beyond the walls of confessional and dreary pop to create lo-fi music with a sense of adventure.
Allegra Krieger - "Fragile Plane: B-Sides" | Album Review
Following I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane, NYC based singer-songwriter Allegra Krieger returns with Fragile Plane: B-Sides, the extension to an album that was fortified in personal silence and atypical orchestration. Krieger expands on her poetic observations of humanity's shortcomings, told through her formidable presence in a passing world.