Yuck - "Stranger Things" | Album Review
Yuck is a band whose name in turns defines and disguises them. At times their music has been wonderfully ugly, changing pop-rock songs to fuzzy, grime-coated anthems. At other times they employ a gentle touch and all but beg to be understood and felt on a deeper level. Both of these methods have worked for the band in the past, but the challenge has been marrying these two discordant identities.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week In Review (February 29th - March 6th)
WALL - "WALL" | Album Review
Never Young - "NY Singles Tape" | Album Review
Bay Area, California upstarts Never Young continue their upward trajectory with their latest offering, NY Singles Tape. They continue to blend the organic with the ethereal and otherworldly on this three song collection of singles. Featuring members of much-loved Bay Area bands like Calculator, Toner, and Happy Diving; what was once a two piece consisting of co-songwriters Christopher Adams and Nikolas Soelter is now a full-fledged quartet featuring bassist Niko Escudero and drummer Samuelito Cruz.
Cold Sweats - "Social Coma" | Album Review
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Bethlehem Steel - "Docking" | Album Review
Led by Becca Ryskalczyk, the recently transplanted Brooklyn-based band have generated a handful of songs checkered with fuzz, soft vocal melody, punctuating bass, and sinuous drums. The sometimes quivering, sometimes belting voice of Ryskalczyk maintains a sense of order and control over the ever-shifting dynamic.
Off Drugs - "Headline" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
Deerhoof - "Fever 121614" | Album Review
Recorded and filmed live in Tokyo, Deerhoof’s Fever 121614 is a multimedia offering (video & audio) that, in 40 minutes, compacts 10+ years of music into a tightly tailored, 12 track live set. It’s the perfect intro into Deerhoof’s expansive and eccentric discography for a new listener, and a brilliant reminder to old fans why this band is so, so important.
Kal Marks - "Life Is Alright, Everybody Dies" | Album Review
Life is Alright, Everybody Dies is a complex beast, and one that requires numerous listens to fully engage. Kal Marks are making a brand of catharsis rock that seems content being deeply isolated from a wider audience -- it’d be a stretch to say that Shane wants everyone to understand what he’s created. This benefits Kal Marks though, as they’re one of the bands that make their name finding a middle ground between relatability and extraordinary talent.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week In Review (February 15th - February 21st)
Sauna Youth - "Distractions" | Album Review
Rick Rude - "Sap" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
The beginning of “Sap” combines a jangly guitar line with a constantly driving drum line and relentlessly building anthemic vocal tone, only to crash back down to the opening progression and build again. The cyclical nature of “Sap” keeps it well within a pop sphere and functions to build the song’s deep playability – indeed “Sap” performs best on loop accompanied by a beer or four.
Pigs - "Wronger" | Album Review
Wronger, released late last year, is the band's second full-length and, like its predecessor, it is full of the gravelly noise rock that its members are known for making throughout their careers. Comparisons to those earlier projects, along with bands like Atlanta's Whores or Athens, GA's Jucifer will surely abound, but what sets PIGS apart from their brethren is how much more they are.
Cherry - "Gloom" EP | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
If you’ve been following underground indie rock in Philadelphia lately, you’ll get a good sense of the psych-bedroom pop dished out on Cherry’s Gloom. The plaintive vocal delivery evokes fellow City of Brotherly Love brethren Gunk and Sun Organ (also ex-Kite Party). The melodies are simple but affecting; the song arrangements wouldn’t sound out of place on a Mikal Cronin record.
Jesu/Sun Kil Moon - "Jesu/Sun Kil Moon" | Album Review
While this collaborative effort between post-metal shoegazers Jesu and confessional crooner Sun Kil Moon doesn’t quite creep its way toward words like masterpiece or classic, it is an impressively rich and engaging musical experiment – a coalescence of disparate sensibilities that form something new, if not entirely unique.
