Lisa/Liza - "Red Leaves" | Post-Trash Premiere
Shelter of a Song, due out November 20th via Orindal Records shines with its own dim lit glow and comfort that comes from a place of patience and introspection. Built on an ever growing stretch of atmosphere, Liza Victoria’s songs look into the depths of mourning and loss, reworking those feelings into a meditative beauty
Thibault - "Or Not Thibault" | Album Review
Or Not Thibault is the first record from Nicole Thibault, formerly of Minimal Chips, with some help from other Aussie underground bands in the likes of Parsnip and The Ocean Party. Thibault relies on spacey and swirling melodies with a bit of a Sarah Records influence in its slightly askew outlook on the world and wide-eyed songwriting.
Landowner - "Old Connecticut Money" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Holyoke, MA’s Landowner are never short on words. With the band’s excellent sophomore album, Consultant, out now via Born Yesterday Records (Dummy, Stuck, Red Tunic) their scathing takedown of systemic racism via political agendas, the upper class, and disparities of resources is all delivered with an appropriate agitation.
Swing Kids - "Anthology" (Reissue) | Album Review
This wasn’t music you could dance to. If you tried, it would just look like a person high on caffeine, shaking and convulsing with no discernible rhythm. It trafficked outside of the predictable 4/4 rhythm. This was hardcore’s version of jazz music— frenetic and frenzied, with no care to what came before.
Powerplant - "A Spine / Evidence" | Album Review
Beginning as a solo project of vocalist/instrumentalist Theo Zhykaryev, the project soon grew legs and became a quartet, combining all things unique of eggpunk and all things doom of post-punk. Across the EP, their off-kilter sound is hallmarked by the speed and force coming from the use of both the analog synths and ripping drums.
I Could Live In Hope - "USAPSA" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Order of the Toad - "Re-Order of the Toad" | Album Review
The trio - Gemma Fleet (The Wharves), Robert Sotelo, and Chris Taylor began making music in the unexpected landscape of a Glasgow flat and they have a combined sound entirely of their own concoction. A hazy mixture of medieval folk, baroque pop, and 60s psychedelia, it’s an utterly bamboozling palette but it works.
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Alien Nosejob - "Once Again The Present Becomes The Past" | Album Review
The album was initially conceived as a concept record about Australia’s first and largest air raid, the 1942 Bombing of Darwin, until Robertson realized the repetitive nature of history would be better-suited to what he wanted to say. In this way, it’s his most focused release yet, both lyrically and sonically.
Miranda Winters - "All-Purpose" | Single Review
Miranda Winters, a veteran of Chicago DIY, best known for her work with Melkbelly, makes surprising, knotty music. All-Purpose’s twin tracks celebrate awe. Awe in daily life, awe in the act of writing. Awe in the strange pleasure of free-association. Winters wanders from one thought to the next, refusing clear-cut beginnings and ends.
Cartalk - "Pass Like Pollen" | Album Review
Cartalk, the project of Los Angeles songwriter and musician Chuck Moore, have been teasing out their debut album, the immaculate Pass Like Pollen, for the better part of a year. The nine tracks that form Pollen are each vulnerable, exuberant, and gripping in a way that makes their power known mere seconds after pressing play.
Matthew Mast - "Born Again" | Post-Trash Premiere
Exhalants - "Atonement" | Album Review
Corey Flood Discuss Songwriting, "Hanging Garden," and Lyrical Themes | Feature Interview
Wax Chattels Share "Clot" LP Influences | Post-Trash Feature
The trio make what they describe as “guitarless guitar music,” and their sophomore album, Clot, is full of strength and menace. Built on angular progressions, swelling noise, and a never ending avalanche of eery tension. Out now via Captured Tracks, Wax Chattels were kind enough to share some of the influences that lead to Clot with us.
Sad13 - "Haunted Painting" | Album Review
Haunted Painting sees a return to accessible hooks and abundant instrumentation but with much more focus, and refinement. Written and recorded during 2019, the record finds Dupuis chewing on some bitter pills of that year, both political and personal, and it unknowingly resonates very strongly amidst 2020’s glum backdrop.
Options - "Warm" | Post-Trash Premiere
The ever prolific musician, producer, all around swell fella is set to release his latest Options gem, Window’s Open, due out October 23rd. It’s another brilliantly somber record that blends intricate songwriting with a lo-fi warble that washes over Engel’s technicality like a blanket of accessibility.
Post Moves - "Karen's Ride With Grace" | Post-Trash Premiere
Sam Wenc has been going by Post Moves since 2012, and the project has got a new record coming out on Noumenal Loom at the end of the month. Today we’re premiering the Sandy Ewan-directed video for “Karen’s Ride With Grace,” a phantasmagorical sequence capturing Wenc’s union of digital and natural realities.
Cardinality - "Cardinality" | Album Review
Partners inside and outside of music, Sorrell and A.G.’s chemistry is apparent from the start of the album. Sonically, the album meanders from the ethereal to the severe all while synthesizing a wide range of influences derived from jazzy samples, electronic textures, soulful vocal melodies, and glitchy percussion.