M.A.Z.E. - "II" | Album Review
It’s not often a band gets harder and lower-fi with time--not without sounding contrived, anyway--but on their new LP II, Japanese post-punk band M.A.Z.E. tap into their hardcore influence with unqualified success. II is faster, furiouser, and more fun, filling in singer Eriko’s vocals with fuzz and throwing some real punch behind guitarist Tatsuya’s oscillating riffs and scorching chord swipes.
Mesh - "Company Jeep" | Post-Trash Premiere
Mesh are an awesome new post-punk band from Philadelphia. Having released a three song demo back in 2019, the band’s official self-titled debut EP is due out May 21st via Born Yesterday Records. The record is tightly wound, with hard and jittery rhythmic coils and guitars that peel away at the foundation.
Unschooling - "Random Acts of Total Control" | Album Review
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Space Tan - "Isolation" | Track Review
At the end of this month Austin, Texas’ Space Tan are set to release their sophomore album, Inti Raymi, via ATH Records. The band, comprised of Gianni Sarmiento, Savanah Shanks, Ray Garza, Ray Flynt, and Wesley Maffly-Kipp, make music that’s fuzzy, at times psychedelic, and definitely steeped in home spun power-pop.
The Armed - "ULTRAPOP" | Album Review
Through its twelve tracks and 39 minutes, ULTRAPOP offers nothing more than the absolute best. It’s a fantastic, futuristic, and forward-thinking emulsion of “what we know pop to be” and “what pop can be” from the heavy side of the aisle. It’s simultaneously grandiose, gruesome and glamorous while never evoking notions of elitism.
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - "Carnage" | Album Review
Carnage is contemplative. Lyrically it is the reflections of a prominent artist reacting to our suddenly changed lives. It soundtracks our failing world. Thoughts come and go and recurring themes build and connect from song to song. It would feel like a stream of consciousness record if it weren’t so refined.
Nature's Neighbor - "Shades of Yesteryear" | Post-Trash Premiere
Chicago’s experimental pop polymaths Nature’s Neighbor are set to return with another full length, the eclectic and worldly, O t h e r s i d e. Due out May 14th, the album truly has no boundaries, rippling from synthetic laptop-pop to progressive folk and warped R&B with everything else in between touched upon for good measure.
Cory Hanson - "Pale Horse Rider" | Album Review
Hanson sets his sights towards a sound inspired by locales both arid and vast. Songs move at a patient pace, often glacial and restrained, though always with the feeling that there’s always something up his sleeve. These are songs that evoke desolate environs; high deserts, each song a rest-stop at the edge of civilization.
Hennen "Auto-Pilot" + Algae Dust "Grasp" | Post-Trash Premiere
For Hennen (aka Shady Bug’s Hannah Rainey) and Algae Dust (aka Frankie valet’s Alison Setili), their music works wonders alone, but it may be even better together, the home recorded pairing highlighting each other’s differences but making a point of what ties them together, good songwriting and a wistful nature.
Moontype - "Bodies of Water" | Album Review
Bodies of Water introduces a band that have a well-crafted vision of what they want to achieve and the ability to execute that vision almost immaculately. Margaret McCarthy’s brand of no holds barred songwriting is striking on so many levels and the way with words displayed on this record leaves quite an impression.
Silicone Prairie - "My Life on The Silicone Prairie" | Album Review
Silicone Prairie is the solo outlet for Kansas City artist Ian Teeple (of Warm Bodies and the Natural Man Band). Their first full-length release My Life on the Silicone Prairie is accidentally a perfect record for the lockdown era. Recorded at his home on 4-track over the last couple years, it would have been a solitary effort regardless.
Great Deceivers - "Orbit" | Post-Trash Premiere
Chicago post-hardcore stalwarts Great Deceivers return once more with a new self-titled album, due out April 30th via Landland Colportage. While the members stay busy between bands like C.H.E.W., Options, and various solo projects, they’ve remained committed to their work in Great Deceivers for over a decade.
Gulch / Sunami - "Split" | Album Review
Gulch and Sunami put out a split on Triple B Records. The pairing is the perfect summation of where hardcore is at in 2021. Those divisions that existed in the 90’s look really stupid in retrospect. It's all just glorified caveman music at the end of the day. All the different iterations on the genre are welcomed and even more so encouraged now.
Flying Fish Cove - "Xuxa" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Their new video for “Xuxa,” directed by Jamie Jones and Connor Surdi, is the latest installment in their already charming visual saga. Cinematically encapsulating all the characteristics of the band’s music, the video features Flying Fish Cove amongst all the elements and ephemera you’d imagine the creators of this music to be into.
Cal Fish - "Plastic Flag" | Album Review
While making their new album Plastic Flag while traveling around Europe in 2017, Cal Fish spent a lot of time listening to the 2004 Arthur Russell compilation Calling Out of Context, and a similar experimental spirit is alive in their record. Cal gathered loops from cassettes found on the streets and fused them with beats.
Spiritual Mafia - "Alfresco" | Album Review
Melbourne quintet Spiritual Mafia boast members gathered from some of that city’s best underground outfits (Ausmuteants, EXEK). Alfresco is their debut album but it was a fractured journey with their members all based around the far reaches of Australia. Spiritual Mafia’s music constantly arrives at a confluence.
Perfect Angels - "Orchids Are Not Sold" | Post-Trash Premiere
Zach Phillips is back with another release on his new La Loi Records, the debut of a new project, Perfect Angels. Joined by Olia Eichenbaum on vocals and a slew of frequent collaborators, the band’s own brand of dreamy avant-garde lounge pop is equally enchanting and spaced-out throughout Exit From The Ultra-World.