All Feels - "Possessed" | Post-Trash Premiere
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (August 12th - August 18th)
Gel - "Persona" | Album Review
Slippers - "So You Like Slippers?" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Pom Poko - "Champion"
Champion is a record you'll want to listen to over and over. It’s packed with infectious sing-songy vocals, jagged instrumentals, and warm vibes. Ragnhild Fangel Jamtveit has described it as the album where Pom Poko has matured. New life experiences, such as parenthood, shape Champion into the magical experience that it is.
Lifeguard on Hallogallo Zine: The Radical-Youth-Punk Chronicler | Feature Interview
Hallogallo is a cipher to Chicago’s teen-beat youth revolution. Within its pages, legends the likes of NEU!’s Michael Rother and Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier mingle with mutual aid placements and essays on leftist history. The zine is electric with serendipity, where Kai Slater’s artistic personal tastes and friendships merge with open submissions.
Winter - " ...And She's Still Listening" | Album Review
Winter claims the lyrics within ...and she's still listening are written from a perspective of a female character that she considers an “extension of her,” an exploratory writing process that could be seen as a unique tool to translate a continued healing journey from the subconscious. Winter leaves listeners to sink into honest emotion.
WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN - "Uncloudy Days" | Post-Trash Premiere
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" | Album Review
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.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (August 5th - August 11th)
Radiator Hospital - "Watching A Fire" | Album Review
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 - "Bent" | Post-Trash Premiere
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.
Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlights
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Lilacs & Champagne - "Fantasy World"
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.
Rider/Horse - "Matted" | Album Review
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."
Power to the People: Finom on Chicago, Jeff Tweedy, and their Excellent New Album | Feature Interview
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.
Girly Pants - "Nurture" | Album Review
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.
Leafing - "Take The Medicine" | Post-Trash Premiere
Ben Seretan - “Allora” | Album Review
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.