Spirits Having Fun - "Two" | Album Review
Two feels as exciting as a live music experience, full of intricate surprises and clashing dynamics in their genre of experimental rock. They utilize the constraints of long-distance art-making to create multi-layered unique sounds, weaving different ideas into melodies and patterns that often feel like entering different colorful rooms of the same colorful house.
Great Wave - "Orange Juice" | Post-Trash Premiere
For the past few years, Scranton’s Great Wave have been crafting a unique style of psychedelic dream-pop, but it leans a bit more toward the experimental than the “pop” tag might suggest. It’s relaxed and accessible, but the band don’t always play to common song structures, instead enacting overall feeling.
Illuminati Hotties - "Let Me Do One More" | Album Review
Florry - "Big Fall" | Album Review
How do you collect the essence of modern Americana music from various sources and then present it as your own vision of what music should sound like? If in doubt you might consult Philadelphia’s Sheridan Frances ‘Francie’ Medosch, who goes under the artistic name of Florry and take a deeper listen to her latest album Big Fall.
Grass Jaw - "Displacement" | Post-Trash Premiere
Having already shared the album’s first two singles, “Dark Months” and “Weight / Chemicals,” Grass Jaw bring us their latest, “Displacement,” a song heavily rooted in the album’s themes of navigating depression. Grass Jaw has a knack for making songs that are intimate and personal but feel relatable to anyone listening.
Tha God Fahim & Nicholas Craven - "Dump Gawd: Shot Clock King" | Album Review
Shot Clock King recalls the cypher, inspiring breaths of life, communally shared for the respect, preservation, and progress of the art and broader art across humanity. One might just as well feel comfortable playing this music in a public setting, with the adaptable lyrical content offering something for everyone.
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Floating Room - "Shimanchu" | Post-Trash Premiere
Floating Room have announced Shima, a new EP due out November 12th via Famous Class Records. With this one, the Portland band are getting heavier. The EP’s lead single is “Shimanchu,” a song that reflects Stoner’s Uchinanchu heritage and a retaliation to the condescension she faces daily as an Asian American woman.
Dazy - "MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs" | Album Review
These songs are like dropping diamonds into heavy machinery—the onslaught of fizzing melodies add warmth and a sense of familiarity to a barrage of fuzzy guitar tones and unrelenting, impersonable drum machine thud. There is a great deal of finesse and genuine, honest-to-goodness work involved in this compilation, but it doesn’t feel that way.
Blessed - "III" | Album Review
Smoke Bellow - "Open For Business" | Album Review
Smoke Bellow, the Baltimore-via-Australia psych-pop band, revels in fitting together wildly disparate influences to create wholly new sounds. Open for Business is an excellent slab of jigsaw pop, collecting pieces they’ve cut out over the course of their discography and arranging them into something beautiful and unexpected.
Bloodslide - "Bloodslide" | Album Review
Greg Ahee (Protomartyr), Mike Wallace (Preoccupations) and AJ Lambert (daughter of Nancy Sinatra), have teamed up to form Bloodslide, a trio that just released its first self-titled EP. All four songs straddle the border between unhinged noise and shatteringly beautiful moments in an otherwise stark and occasionally dismal EP.
Pearl & The Oysters - "Flowerland" | Album Review
Neckbolt - "Jawline" | Post-Trash Premiere
Austin’s Neckbolt are a new band that are making noise rock in their own way, deranged and slurred, loud and abrasive, but colorful and a bit psychedelic. It rips with amp blaring intensity but has a prismatic gleam, a sordid kind of fusion that sits somewhere between fellow Texans like Cherubs, Borzoi, and Butthole Surfers.
Tropical Fuck Storm - "Deep States" | Album Review
June Gloom - "TV Show" | Post-Trash Premiere
June Gloom is the solo project of Jesse Paller, a New York based musician and sound engineer. His records and steeped in indie rock traditionalism, but his songwriting is always impactful. Following a split release with Rock Solid back in 2018, June Gloom is here again with Destructive Children, a new full length due out on October 1st.
P.E. - "The Reason For My Love" | Album Review
Central Heat Exchange - "Central Heat Exchange" | Album Review
Babehoven - "Nastavi, Calliope" | Album Review
Nastavi, Caliope, the latest from Maya Bon’s Babehoven, is a must listen. Written in the wake of twin upheavals – the death of her dog and the reunion with her estranged father, the EP captures the sadness, anger, isolation, and monotony of these moments, transforming them into a musically and emotionally compelling seven tracks.