Melkbelly - "Nothing Valley" | Album Review
Sports / Plush - "Split" | Album Review
Birthing Hips - "Droplet" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
Radiator Hospital - "Play The Songs You Like" | Album Review
Radiator Hospital’s delightful and vital new album Play The Songs You Like, like many of the best records, functions as a companion for aging amidst the current malaise. Beyond being an exceptional rock album, it is a deeply sentimental look at what happens in any life, from a band that has always excelled on such a minutely grandiose level.
A. Savage - "Thawing Dawn" | Album Review
Datenight - "Another Thing To Do" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
Sleeping In - "Let You In" LP | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
Weed Hounds - "Double Life" | Album Review
The County Liners - "Walkin' Out" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
The duo's twangy debut trades off between Dunphe and McDonnell's vocals, countering each other with passioned howls and concise songwriting that never overstays its welcome. "Walkin' Out" is a prime example, a cloudy western ballad that captures McDonnell's folk inflected blues and longing, desperately attempting to hold on to a relationship already in shambles.
Torres - "Three Futures" | Album Review
Philary - "Bummer." EP | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
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Shilpa Ray - "Door Girl" | Album Review
Though Ray has lived here for 17 years, she’s not painting pretty pictures of the city; Door Girl depicts New York as a collage of horrors, anxieties, and frustrations, ranging from the personal to the grandly political. It’s a thesis statement for anyone living paycheck to paycheck (or less) in a storied American city overrun with garbage, gentrification, wage gaps, and public transit.
Petite League - "Rips One Into The Night" | Album Review
King Khan - "Murderburgers" | Album Review
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - "Lotta Sea Lice" | Album Review
What Lotta Sea Lice does amount to is a charming and engaging record about friendship and making music. The narrative being constructed around this record, both in the media and in the lyrics themselves, is one of two artists not only genuinely appreciating the other, but also that of a friend helping to rescue another from uncertainty and expectation.