Julie Doiron - "I Thought Of You" | Album Review
Cloakroom - "Dissolution Wave" | Album Review
On Dissolution Wave, Cloakroom shows that they know the assignment and end up delivering the best album of their career. The band seems ready to reel in some of the riff-driven songwriting of their previous records and hone in more on atmosphere and soundscapes accompanying more bare boned songwriting from Doyle Martin.
ROCK - "ROCK" | Album Review
ROCK formed after MALK’s tweet and Chris Adams’ (Hood/Bracket) reply. The former was in search of a vocalist and the latter obliged. The proposed task: MALK was looking for autotune vocals on a “10 track Elliot Smith/Alex G album.” Adams said ‘done’ and does a proper good job and more on the duo’s excellent self-titled debut.
Tetchy Discuss "Backyard" Single, Dealing With Trauma, and More | Feature Interview
Tetchy have never been shy to tackle issues that are important with their music and songwriting, and after a trying couple of years, the band have an exciting and fruitful future to look forward to. In a recent interview they discuss their new video for "Backyard,” the struggles of dealing with grief and trauma, and the path forward for the band.
Reptaliens - "Multiverse" | Album Review
Reptaliens’ latest release Multiverse is a kaleidoscope, refracting the daily minutiae of lockdown life into a technicolor vision. You may recognize the band’s work from their sci-fi tinged catalog, which explores everything ranging from post-humanism to conspiracy theories to Philip K. Dick’s tales of techno-dystopia
CS Cleaners - "Income Pain" | Post-Trash Premiere
DIM COMP Vol. 3’s first single comes courtesy of CS Cleaners, a new band featuring Adam Sierz (Should've), Ben Petrisor, Sergio Falvo, and Jacob Saxton. “Income Pain” is their debut single and it’s one hell of an introduction. Influenced by noise rock, post-punk, and hardcore, the band dive right in with refreshingly sordid basement punk.
Oruã - "Íngreme" | Album Review
Self-labeled as “a poor man’s jazz” and “working-class krautrock,” Oruã released their third record, Íngreme, on October 29, 2021. The krautrock influence is apparent, but you’ll hear more psychedelic rock than jazz. Regardless of labels, self-applied or otherwise, Íngreme is an eclectic mix of songs.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (January 17th - January 23rd)
Trevor Nikrant - "Tall Ladders" | Album Review
Stimmerman - "Geek" | Post-Trash Premiere
Eva Lawitts’ band colors way outside the lines and it’s all the better for it, swerving between art rock, grungier tones, and a kitchen sink of noise ridden indie weirdness. It was on full display with Goofballs, released back in 2019 and Lawitts’ and co’s sound continues to embrace unpredictability with their latest single, “Geek”.
Yard Act - "The Overload" | Album Review
When our last great hope is good music then we should look to bands like Yard Act for it. The Overload proves itself as something important by acknowledging its unimportance. Yard Act doesn’t take themselves too seriously, and it’s refreshing to hear an album that doesn’t think it’s the most important thing in the world.
Michael John Grant - "Be Amused" | Post-Trash Premiere
Luggage’s Michael John Grant has self-released his new solo album, Just Like Smoke, on his personal Bandcamp. Today we’re looking at the track “Be Amused,” which is a straightforward guitar-pop blast. Grant’s loaded it with call-and-release vocal harmonies that beget you singing along with your laptop.
Fashion Pimps & The Glamazons - "Jazz 4 Johnny" | Album Review
Comprised of members of Cloud Nothings, Profligate, The Mind, and more Cleveland rock legends, Fashion Pimps & The Glamazons lunge forward with mutant post-punk, blending no-wave, noise, and more into an alarming yet danceable seven tracks that clock in under twenty total minutes. Each track is infectious, curious, and off-kilter.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (January 10th - January 16th)
Robert Sotelo - "Take Control Of It" | Post-Trash Premiere
Psychic Flowers - "For The Undertow" | Album Review
Favoring that lo-fi Guide By Voices type approach of recording anywhere you can, from basements to practice spaces, Settle does remix the material professionally (this time around Justin Pizzoferrato, to give it a more polished sound while still retaining that buzz and rush his combination of power pop and punky garage creates.
Sun Organ - "Arbiter of Pain (Blue Sky Version)" | Post-Trash Premiere
On February 14th, just in time for Valentine’s Day, comes Made For This Life, a new full length split between Sun Organ, Nyxy Nyx, and Sandcastle, with three songs from each of the bands. Due out via BLIGHT. Records (Ruah, Tadzio, Luna Honey), the collection is a great reminder of all three of the project’s adaptability.
Marissa Paternoster discusses the making of "Peace Meter," the Bart of the Month Club, & more | Feature Interview
Through Marissa Paternoster’s long tenure crisscrossing the globe she’s built up a professional network of sorts–talented friends like Andy Gibbs, Shanna Polley, and Kate Wakefield, who feature on Peace Meter. Paternoster spoke to Post-Trash about the album’s cast of players and turning to less conventional artistic avenues.
Deerhoof - "Devil Kids" | Album Review
The songs on Devil Kids— a live album constructed from the audio captured by the four camera mics of a December basement-livestream— are energetic, matured, dare-I-say improved (in the way songs are after sitting with a band for years) versions of studio recordings with the palpable energy of a group that loves playing together.