Glaring Orchid - "Swimmer" | Post-Trash Premiere
The Philly / New Brunswick band, led by Quinn Mulvihill, have ventured beyond the digital realm into a dense form of swarming shoegaze and layered slowcore. Working together with Tim Jordan (Sun Organ) at Blood Red Sky, Glaring Orchid’s full length debut arrives fully formed, with equal parts graceful nuance and blaring distortion.
Brazilian Rhythms, Pandemic Isolation, and a Cat Named Penny: Inside the Making of Blonde Redhead’s "Sit Down for Dinner" | Feature Interview
On a wet December morning, Post-Trash caught up with Blonde Redhead drummer and percussionist, Simone Pace, who spoke with us from his home in upstate New York. Pace shed some light on the making of Sit Down for Dinner, the unexpected role a canceled tour with Tool played, and the best feline cameo on an album.
Esther Rose - "Safe 2 Run (Versions)" | Album Review
Safe To Run captured Esther Rose’s potential, both as a songwriter and performer. Maybe it was just a natural progression, but she seems to have reached her full musical maturity. It’s expressed in the fact that when she writes her songs she’s able to envision them in a number of versions, with almost each one being the right one.
Grazia - "Cheap" | Post-Trash Premiere
London duo Grazia are here for the sleaze punks, making clean and rattling garage punk with heavy pop hooks and minimalist structures. Their sound is catchy, indebted both to 80’s new wave and a more radiant KBD sound, each song on their upcoming debut, In Poor Taste, packing a gluey charm that’s hard to resist.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (December 4th - January 7th)
Full Body 2 - "Infinity Signature" | Album Review
After upgrading from Version 1 to Version 2, the band started producing luscious, gossamer shoegaze tracks that draw on digital soundscapes. Along with a drum and bass track at the end of each, this is what made up their first two demos. Now with their latest, infinity signature, the band continue this sound, further developing a new world.
Subsonic Eye | Feature Interview
Frida Kill - "Kill! Kill!" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Physique - "Overcome By Pain"
Olympia’s Physique have returned with Overcome By Pain, a blistering six track EP on Seattle’s Iron Lung Records, giving a form to the noise of the body – the body reacting to the deep silence keeping this rotten imperialist foundation in place. Fresh off February’s Again, Physique continue their d-beat bombardment.
a.s.o. - "a.s.o." | Album Review
As echoed keys welcome melting synths, crushing drum loops knotted around a lustful, intimate voice awaken. That is how a.s.o. opens – the collaborative effort of eclectic house producer Lewie Day (Tornado Wallace) and singer Alia Seror-O’Neill (Alias Error) – and it is the modern reinvigoration of sleek ‘90s downtempo.
Wesley Wolffe - "Streets" | Post-Trash Premiere
Returning with a teaser for Good Kind, Wesley Wolffe’s new full-length album set to be released January 12, he doubles down in tenacity and charm on his latest single, “Streets”. Grown out of sweaty spontaneity, fractured instrumentations and deliberate angst, “Streets” finds him eerily attuned to the characters around him everyday.
Frog - "GROG" | Album Review
New York duo Frog returns with a rowdy cast of characters on a beaming LP, and a new lineup in Daniel Bateman’s brother, Steve. On the introductory track of GROG, a cheery voice explains that grog is the drink of choice for sailors in the 18th century, and the album certainly does have a flushed, rosy feeling to it.
Keiji Haino & Guro Moe - "Drums & Octobass" | Album Review
Legendary multi-instrumentalist and improviser Keiji Haino, along with Guro Moe, a Norwegian bassist and avant-garde composer share Drums & Octobass, released on Norway’s ConradSound label, a new collaborative effort. Haino, now 71, is showing no signs of slowing down, raising eyebrows with his adventurous improvisations.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Charlène Darling - "La Porte"
Darling aka Charlotte Kouklia is a member of Rose Mercie, and has already released two solo singles, various CD-R releases, and one widely distributed full-length of her own. It took her a few years or so to share another solo effort, but judging by the nine tracks (and a voice recording) on La Porte, it was quite worth the wait.
Brainiac - "The Predator Nominate EP" | Album Review
Shady Bug - "What's The Use?" | Album Review
St. Louis indie-rockers, Shady Bug use their latest EP to interpret preservation through a lens of both inner and outer anxieties. What’s the Use?, packaged within twenty minutes of bleeding hooks and dissonant indie-rock, lets Shady Bug unwrap a beautiful juxtaposition of self worth while our world comes to an end.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Stress Positions - "Harsh Reality"
The Chicago quartet play hardcore at the speed of light, their fury only matched by their willingness to distort their assault with subtle psychedelic shifts. Harsh Reality, released via Three One G Records is aware of police brutality, corporate greed, and ever present inequality, and Stress Positions are none too happy about any of it.
Sundae Painters - "Sundae Painters" | Album Review
Sundae Painters, the last recordings of Hamish Kilgour (The Clean), brings four pivotal artists together. Kilgour, Alec Bathgate (Tall Dwarfs), Paul Kean (Toy Love, The Bats) and Kaye Woodward (The Bats) have a long history with each other and these recordings come from informal jam sessions that give space for psychedelic and folk exploration.
