The Chives - "The Chives" LP | Post-Trash Premiere
The Boston based garage punk collective, which features members of Blue Ray, Squitch, Brittle Brian, and many others, have released their self-titled today debut via Super Wimpy Punch. The record capitalizes on the promise of lead singles “The Chives Buy Guns” and “I’m Always Afraid,” setting the monitors constantly into the red.
Thanks For Coming - "Stagnant" | Post-Trash Premiere
Lisa/Liza - "Shelter of a Song" | Album Review
Shelter should be understood in the context within which it was conceived and captured: it was recorded entirely live in the kitchen of a studio apartment in Central Maine. Featuring only Liza Victoria’s vocals and accompanied guitar, it’s almost as instrumentally scarce as a record can be. In the best way possible.
Kaz Mirblouk - "Dozer" | Post-Trash Premiere
“Dozer” is the perfect weird-yet-accessible peak into the world of multi-faceted LA artist Kaz Mirblouk. On Careless by Contrast, Mirblouk takes the opportunity to find his own voice by picking apart elements of a multitude of genres as he sees fit and weaving them into a kaleidoscopic vision all his own.
Peeling - "Dread" | Post-Trash Premiere
Three years since their last EP, Toronto’s Peeling are set to release their full length debut, Worshipper, on November 27th via Labyrinth Records. Once billed as a Canadian super-group with members of Odonis Odonis and Dilly Dally, the project has morphed into a solo effort, led by Anna Timoshenko, and they have never sounded better.
Pylon - "Pylon Box" | Album Review
New West Records’ Pylon Box compiles a new de facto history of the Athens art punks, finally making accessible the sounds and filling in the narrative blanks of the oft underlooked group. In step with examining Pylon’s legacy among their musical peers, the retrospective box set’s insightful, 209-paged companion booklet.
Fred Cracklin - "Guff In The Garden" | Album Review
Guff in the Garden tells stories, totally subjective content-wise. Each track is more like a situation, with all the strange stuff Max Goldstein (drums) and Adam Bosse (guitar) toss together swirling around miasmatically for you to come wade through coughing and incorporate into your day’s dull manifold however you feel impelled to.
Flowers - "Candour" | Post-Trash Premiere
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Lawn - "Johnny" | Album Review
Johnny, the second full length effort from the New Orleans group Lawn, is a sprawling album with continuous shifts in dynamics that surprise the listener as the two main songwriters trade turns showcasing their distinctive but harmonious styles of songwriting. It’s an album of contrasting styles, at once pop and post-punk influenced.
Alpha Hopper - "Big Body" | Post-Trash Premiere
Set to release their latest full length album, Alpha Hex Index, on November 20th via Hex Records, it’s another crushing addition to the band’s stellar catalog of noise punk records that simultaneously disgust and delight. It’s loud, aggressive, and willingly irritating, and it just melts our hearts with joy in the process.
Soul Glo - "Songs To Yeet At The Sun" | Album Review
Songs To Yeet At The Sun is the opposite of a cerebral experience. It’s instantaneous and immediate. You either get it or you don’t. If you want to do a deeper interrogation, all the lyrics are there for you on the Bandcamp page. Soul Glo is at its peak when the vocals become an instrument against the hardcore cacophony.
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - "Alfredo" } Album Review
Gibbs has been on an incredible run, releasing at least seven great albums in the last decade, if not more. Alfredo certainly stands with the best Gibbs has ever released, and the same goes for The Alchemist. Few rappers have kept pace with Gibbs in recent years and few producers have been as prolific and consistent as The Alchemist.
Super-X - "Super-X" | Album Review
If music is supposed to take one on a journey, this idea is something that Super-X takes literally. The Melbourne post-punk noise creators - composed of brothers Harrison and George Ottaway and drummer Kaelan Emond - take their listeners on a frenetic and buzzing journey around the world on their self-titled debut album
Telyscopes - "With a Y" | Album Review
Little Ripple - "Lentils & Toast" | Post-Trash Premiere
Little Ripple is the Omaha by way of Woodbine, Iowa based solo project of Ameen Wahba. Having released albums to Bandcamp at a prolific rate as well as toured as a member of Anna McClellan’s band, Staffers, and Thick Paint among others, the time has come for Wahba’s physical debut release, Kind Witness.
Floating Room - "Tired and True" | Album Review
Chris Rowley Talks Adulkt Life's Formation and "Book of Curses" | Feature Interview
In the early 1990s, Chris Rowley was a vocalist and songwriter for the legendary Riot Grrrl/art-punk group Huggy Bear. Chris Rowley has now teamed up with John Arthur Webb and Kevin Hendrick (of Male Bonding and PRE) and 23-year-old drummer Sonny Barrett for a new band, Adulkt Life. Rowley recently answered some questions about their formation, playing in a multi-generational band, and their new album.
Lithics - "Tower of Age" | Album Review
With their compact arrangements, short run times, and impressive musicianship, the tracks on Tower Of Age offer a refreshing return to form for post-punk. While the record may harken bands like Gang Of Four and Wire, the music they make never feels like a rehash of the acts that came half a century before them.