Antiphons - "Human Bruise" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

by Jonathan Bannister (@j_utah)

A relationship can be like space exploration — the excitement and nervousness on take-off, heading to places unknown as you explore life together; but like space, relationships can be unpredictable. You can account for only so many variables only to find something you didn’t even think of comes careening in, wrecking the ship, or separating you from the other. You find yourself stranded in worlds unknown. This is where we find Brian Dove of Antiphons.

Antiphons started out as a Dove solo endeavor. However, in the ensuing years they have become a full 4-piece band with Tommy Terrell, Matthew Stinnett, and Chris Matz. In existence since 2011, Groan is only their first full length. While the album doesn’t come out until the beginning of next year, we are happy to premiere the video for lead single “Human Bruise” today.

A lonely guitar cries out from the void. A desperate cry from a lonely soul trapped in the black hole of a relationship gone wrong. Like being jettisoned from an airlock, a voice cuts into the lament with a declaration. “You fuck like an only child, Selfishly.” But while this would sound like a damming insult to most, our explorer doesn’t see it that way. “That’s alright with me…Feel like a human bruise, Feeling good being used.” The band settles into a late night vibe. The closing band at the cantina on the outskirts of the outpost. In the video, Dove is this lost explorer. Stranded in an unfamiliar and possibly hostile landscape, alone and with limited resources. But the song also doesn’t lose the wonder of exploration as Dove sings “It's cool to be alive most of the time.” The lows can be pretty low but we forge ahead, knowing the journey is always worth it. 

Check out the video below. Groan is out January 13, 2017 and is being put out by Gigantic Noise and Citrus City records. Stay tuned in to their website http://www.antiphonsband.com for more information.

Antiphons' new album Groan is out January 13th, 2017 via Citrus City Records (cassette/digital) and Gigantic Noise Records (vinyl).

Dust From 1000 Yrs - "Spring" | Album Review

by Jordan Weinstock (@weinstockjordan)

Although Dust From 1000 Yrs' newest endeavor, Spring, was recorded during the days of it’s namesake, it arrives in our hands much later. This seasonal questioning and consistent transience is one that Ben Rector (aka Bone) has lived in over the past decade or so. This doesn’t mean that Rector is unsure of his own music, in fact, he may be one of the most confident humans in the music world right now.

His live performance, something I was blessed with seeing for the first time this summer at the EIS Showcase at Northside Festival, kept me entirely enraptured; this says a lot as I was pretty much jumping out of my clothes waiting to see Ovlov. There’s something beautiful about the way Rector holds a stage captive. With little more than his guitar, a simple drum kit, and a bubble blower he had me shouting along to songs I had never heard before.

Spring differs from DFATY’s last few releases (Moon and the Famous Cigarettes split);  it feels much less tangible in a way, like trying to describe a feeling to someone who hasn’t felt it. Written and recorded fairly soon after having moved to Boston from Indiana, a pretty major change, the tape finds Dust at some of his most vulnerable moments yet. With little more than fingerpicked and slightly dissonant guitars, and drums that feel like they are marching towards the end of time, you are hearing a heart and mind unravel. The album was described to me as “...a document of all the alienation, confusion, depression, and anger…” and indeed I barely have anything to add. Listen to “The Deepest Part” and tell me it doesn’t make you feel; tell me it isn’t one of the rawest and most painful listening experiences you’ve had; tell me you didn’t enjoy it. I would be hard pressed to imagine otherwise.