The Shifters - "The Shifters" [Reissue] | Album Review
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Long Neck - "Bad Words" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
As a song that expounds on loneliness and isolation, the current global state of affairs injects new meaning into the deeply personal “Bad Words.” Though written before the current pandemic, in the video, the band applies the song’s themes to the new collective normal that many are experiencing with a hopeful and inspiring message.
Blue Ray - "Blessed Fruit" EP | Post-Trash Premiere
Blessed Fruit is easily the most violent and deranged the band have ever sounded. The entire record is sonically threatening to bury you under a mountain of high frequency feedback and piercing levels of gain. Coincidentally, it’s also the first to be professionally mastered, with Will Killingsworth of Dead Air Studios to thank for this one.
Stuck Discuss Playing Live, Isolation, and Their Record "Change Is Bad" | Feature Interview
Chicago four-piece Stuck is a torrent of biting guitar riffs and desperate vocals twisted and held together by a precise, curious rhythm section. Their stripped-down and raw approach is evident and effective on their debut album, Change is Bad. We had the pleasure of meeting and talking with them via video chat.
Caustic Wound - "Death Posture" | Album Review
Pat Keen - "Cell Song" | Post-Trash Premiere
Formerly a collaborator of Guerilla Toss and Wei Zhongle, the Minnesota via Eau Claire based songwriter’s solo music is based within folk, but the inherent ease in his songs is built on a wandering state of reinvention. Following last year’s Oakland Ave, Keen returns with new full length, Cells Remain, out August 21st on Birdwatcher Records.
Buddie - "Heartbeat" | Post-Trash Premiere
Diving, the band’s new record is due out July 17th via their new label home at Pittsburgh’s Crafted Sounds (Spooled Up, The Zells, Bat Zuppel). The album, which while optimistic, deals with both anxiety and self-improvement, is based around the urgent attention that is needed in regards to the environment and the role of humans in it.
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Modern Rituals - "This Is The History" | Album Review
The use of dynamics on This Is The History make it seem like a more deliberate and comprehensive album than their past releases. Vocals swell in and out of screams and quiet croons, while the guitars bring a sense of controlled chaos. The bass and drums keep a heavy pulse that often erupts into pulverizing bursts.
Toner - "Silk Road" | Album Review
Silk Road, the band’s third LP, sees Toner far more polished than ever before. While a refinement in sound is expected after five separate records, the most striking thing about their songwriting this time around is not just its maturity but the amount of variety the band manages to pack into Silk Road’s brisk twenty minute runtime.
Radical Dads - "Don't Wanna Go" | Post-Trash Premiere
Paved Mountain is the bi-coastal band’s fourth album, due out on June 23rd via Uninhabitable Mansions (Annie Hart, Sat. Nite Duets, Pursesnatchers), and picks up their subtle glory, shining a light on their muscular brand of indie rock and introspective songwriting, with more than a few new tricks up their sleeve.
Amyl and the Sniffers - "Live at The Croxton" | Album Review
Led by one of the greatest lead singers of the past few years, they’ve built up a ferocious reputation for their live shows, ensuring this EP should become a defining companion piece to their recordings. Live at The Croxton flashes by in under ten minutes but not before the dynamism and raucousness of their energy is translated to the listener.
Moth - "Ritual" | Post-Trash Premiere
Melenas - "Dias Raros" | Album Review
Melenas hail from Pamplona, Spain, a city known more for the running of the bulls than its music scene. After multiple releases on local labels, they have signed with US based label Trouble in Mind to release Dias Raros. If there is any justice, the band has created an album that should put their local scene on the map.
Mo Dotti - "Blurring" EP | Post-Trash Premiere
L.A.’s Mo Dotti are a genuine shoegaze band, their sound reflective of the genre’s glory days. They have studied the classics, from songwriting to production. They’ve spent the past three years refining their approach, constructing and layering guitars with dreamy perfection, and everything falls right into place on their first EP, Blurring.
Parsnip - "Adding Up" | Album Review
If last year’s debut LP delivered an anthology of twee-punk fairy tales, Parsnip’s new EP represents a burgeoning adolescence for the band as they test out new tones and take on larger themes. On Adding Up, the quartet buoys a scrappiness and more robust sound while still glimpsing the joy of their previous work.
Options - "Faster" (Remix) | Post-Trash Premiere
In an unprecedented move, Chicago’s Options are sharing a remix of their song “Faster” before we’ve heard “Faster” in its original form. Its full of intrigue and mystery. While the source material is set to arrive on the latest Options album, Wind’s Gonna Blow, due out May 22nd, the remix is here and ready.
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Stuck - "Change Is Bad" | Album Review
If change is bad, Stuck makes the best of it. The record, front to back, is solid. It’s as dense as it is brief - the band wastes zero time plunging to exceptional depths in both arrangement and lyricism. Stuck’s debut contains the kind of post-punk precision and detail begging for repeated listens. Nothing’s overthought, but it’s all thought out.