WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN’s music feels a million miles wide. Comprised of Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion), Mat Ball (Big|Brave), Jonathan Downs, and Patch One (both of Ada), the quartet’s collective oeuvre offers the project a sense of familiarity, but opts for open collaboration.
Queen of Jeans’ All Again is a tribute to the kinetics of a relationship post break-up. The Philadelphia band, consisting of members, Miriam Devora, Matheson Glass, Patrick Wall, and Andrew Nitz, explores the tribulations of heartbreak through an infectious indie rock sound consistent throughout their discography.
This record served as the fourth quarter follow-up, a little "something extra," to the band's latest album, Can't Make Any Promises, which was released in March of 2023. Watching a Fire has more of the band's trademark homespun warmth and lo-fi charm, where sweet pop rock tunes coexist with more solemn introspective moments.
Black Ends have spent the past five years establishing themselves as one of the Pacific Northwest’s most exciting new bands. Known for both explosive live shows and their lovingly dubbed “gunk pop” sound, the trio have long been one to watch, and they’re about to up to ante with their long awaited full length debut, Psychotic Spew.
The music in question is, well, difficult to describe in typical genre buzzwords, though many have tried. Neither “psychedelic” nor “trip-hop” do much of any justice to the twosome’s defiant sound. Then again, “sound collage” doesn’t help much either because even that movement tends to focus more on the process than the end-product.
Kingston, NY's own Rider/Horse’s "journey" started out as a "duo delivering stripped-down post-punk screeds," but across Matted, they are ever closer to a full band configuration. Can they maintain the "minimalist industrial clatter...as [their] sonic foundation," or have they blazed an entirely new trail forward? With joy and awareness, I declare, "Yes."
Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart are free to take risks, a position that suits them and their music. The videos for the album’s advance singles reflect a similar truth: there’s a lot more going on with Finom than a cursory listen suggests. Post-Trash sat down with the duo for a glimpse into the making of the album and videos, working with Jeff Tweedy, plus their thoughts on how the power of community can combat postmodern cynicism.
Nurture is the debut from Chicago’s Girly Pants, a release mixed with a sweetness and ear for melodies, full of heart tugging lyrics about the intricacies of relationships and growing up. Sabreen Alfadel is unafraid to get loud, pairing entertaining guitar riffs along with jazzy shuffles that are full of vitality and a stately cool in the atmosphere.
Allora, the new full-length from the New York songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, is a snapshot. For someone known just as much for painting ambient sunscapes and making 24-hour albums as for piecing together roaring, spiritual, overwhelming rock songs with chorales of friends, Allora is his most unyielding and raw release to date.
Any day would do for a chat with Andrew Falkous, but Post-Trash happened to catch him at a busy three-way intersection of notable happenings. This spring, mclusky completed a rescheduled U.S. tour celebrating the anniversary of their classic sophomore album, Mclusky Do Dallas. Shortly after, the band’s third LP, The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not On Fire, turned twenty years old. Shortly after that, the band signed with Ipecac Recordings for the first album of new material since their breakup in 2005.
They released their sixth album, and their first live album, As It Happened: Horse Lords Live via RVNG Intl. during the spring of 2024. The record has songs from many different points of their discography, primarily from Interventions (2016) and Comradely Objects (2022) and one track from Hidden Cities (2014).
“F Hard, B Forever” is the band’s first single from their BLIGHT. Records debut and a riveting introduction to the newfound super-project. Featuring members of Ugh God, Nyxy Nyx, and Sun Organ, Assisted Living’s stacked lineup of collaborators and pals informs the band’s effortless, fuckless, off the cuff delivery.
