Galore - "Galore" | Album Review
Opin Discuss New Album "Media & Memory," Remixes, and 2pm on a Wednesday | Feature Interview
Media & Memory has time on its side; you can hear the hours that went into refining its nine tracks, boiling down countless practice sessions, hammering hooks, harmonies, and idiosyncratic drum grooves until they sit completely flush. Before the release, in the midst of coordinating a remix album and pre-recording of two live performances, the trio spoke to Post Trash about the process of excavating the album from hours of preparation.
Joyer - "Sun Into Flies" | Album Review
Joyer are brothers Nick and Shane Sullivan who are quietly making some of the finest recent slowcore music. Their latest album, Sun Into Flies, is their third full-length and the first not to be self-released, instead being issued through Z Tapes, the Slovakian label run by Filip Zemcik which has become a byword for quality lo-fi releases.
Grass Jaw - "Germs" | Album Review
Wendy Eisenberg - "Auto" | Album Review
Wendy Eisenberg’s reputation as a fixture within overarching New England DIY from the punk-adjacent Birthing Hips to hip compositions for the guitar and banjo have enshrined them with a singular maverick quality. Auto makes good on all those pieces, coalescing them into a dense sonic universe that you could fill a book about its pieces
Horsegirl - "Ballroom Dance Scene" | Post-Trash Premiere
Horsegirl is a trio of teens combining post-punk and shoegaze in their own design. The band formed a little over a year ago and have slowly been releasing singles, each one building on the promise of what came before. They’re off to an incredible start, with fully realized songwriting that is dense and alluring, falling away from pop structures.
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Teenanger - "Good Time" | Album Review
Good Time is a record that shows all of what Teenanger have learned from the past decade and continues to explore a bit of a newer direction from the earlier days of the band. The urgency and wise cracking are still evident, but there is more time to stretch out and explore musical territories and influences on a greater scale.
Cower - "Midnight Sauce" | Post-Trash Premiere
While the band certainly incorporate elements of deranged noise rock into their sound, they more often lean into a spookier goth croon to anchor their bludgeoning. “Midnight Sauce,” the second single from BOYS highlights that side of their output, a song filled with terror and menace but drawn together with a silky vocal performance.
Cordoba - "Specter" | Album Review
Cordoba is a group of politically and socially driven individuals committed to radical social change in resistance to the oppressive systems in place. The six-piece jazz fusion group formed at University of Chicago, but has since breached the bubble of higher education by connecting with like-minded musicians in DIY spaces.
Shimmertraps - "Atrium" | Post-Trash Premiere
Adrianne Lenker - "instrumentals" | Album Review
In almost every imaginable way, instrumentals is an unconventional record, especially when listened to in conjunction with songs, an effort laden with deliberateness and structural warmth. Still, instrumentals is a worthwhile amalgamation of ambient instrumentation that soothes and invigorates any willing ear.
Airhead DC - "Condo 2" | Post-Trash Premiere
Following a string of releases including 2018’s Crush-Hi, Airhead DC return with a brand new EP, Busted Sermon, an expansive swirl of warped lo-fi psych and homegrown bedroom pop. The solo project of Vishal Narang has steadily grown over the years to include new influences and sounds, dipping into territory less traveled.
Adrianne Lenker - "songs" | Album Review
Footings - "Later Days" | Post-Trash Premiere
Tashi Dorji - "Stateless" | Album Review
Before you even hear its music it’s clear that this record is an address, but whereas past missives were calls to arms this one postures more as a plea for contemplation: more than do, Stateless wants you to think — even to hope. It has stakes subtler than Dorji’s other political records, and this makes the guitarist seem more present.
