Nicfit - "Fuse" | Post-Trash Premiere
Cherubs - " SLO BLO 4 FRNZ & SXY" | Album Review
Weaponizing expectations is a Cherubs watermark. The Austin noise rock band has made fucking with the format a symbol of authenticity. Listening to SLO BLO 4 FRNZ & SXY, Cherubs’ most recent release for Relapse, offers the same discombobulation of being pulled from a car wreck only to discover you’re physically unscathed.
Cities Aviv “Just Wants to Put the Highest Emotion Out There” | Feature Interview
Post-Trash’s Dash Lewis spoke with Cities Aviv shortly before the vinyl drop of Crashing Sound about how he crafted the album, whether or not he considers his music experimental, and his endless prolificacy. They discuss his insatiable appetite for music, swinging widely from Japanese sludge rockers Boris to free jazz pioneer Milford Graves.
Lily Konigsberg - "Lily We Need To Talk Now" | Album Review
Konigsberg is an artist with exquisite control over the two-minute pop structure and Lily We Need To Talk Now thoroughly breezes by at a brisk 25 minutes. That’s not to say these songs are too similar though: it’s actually sublime the way she dips in and out of styles, from punk rock to the glitchy autotune to the pure pop-punk.
Hellrazor - "Globbed" | Post-Trash Premiere
The Brooklyn via New Haven based trio are set to return with the release of their next record, Heaven’s Gate, next Spring, but the time has come to get “Globbed.” The band’s latest single is here and it’s once again proof that Michael Falcone and co. have a better understanding of big, punchy, grunge-tinged alternative rock than most.
Wendy Eisenberg - "Bent Ring" | Album Review
Spirit Was - "Heaven's Just A Cloud" | Album Review
Heaven's Just a Cloud is the first full length by Spirit Was, led by Nick Corbo (formerly of LVL UP), which finds itself in a whole new space to explore heavier avenues while maintaining a wonderful melodic ear. A bit of a departure from his previous work, this project allows a whole new universe for the listener to envelop themselves in.
Tonsstartsbandht - "Petunia" | Album Review
Tonstartssbandht struck a sensible balance between laidback cool and insular uncool, mystical spirit and inviting energy. Their psychedelia and prog rock-inflected sound is experimental but never enervating. It’s a testament to their ability and connection that Petunia might be their best work together yet.
Log Across The Washer - "It's Funny How the Colors" | Album Review
Throughout It's Funny How the Colors, Log Across The Washer’s Tyler Keene whips up a universe of ramshackle folk built for porch gazing as much as drifting through your own recollections of the past. The tape is never a bummer, although there's a hushed energy (in its lyrics) of accepting the present for what it is.
Beauty Pill Talk "Instant Night," Health Crises, Laurie Anderson, & More | Feature Interview
Beauty Pill’s discography offers a reminder that art music can challenge you without being obtuse or obscure. Before the release of Instant Night, Chad Clark and co-lead-singer Erin Nelson spoke to Post-Trash about the health crises that brought them together and the high points in artistic life they now get to savor as a group.
Julia Shapiro - "Zorked" | Album Review
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (November 1st - November 7th)
Dummy - "Mandatory Enjoyment" | Album Review
It’s not always easy for a band with such a plethora of ideas to integrate them so smoothly. Without the strength of their songwriting, Mandatory Enjoyment could come off as a hollow list of reference points that dissipate the moment the record ends. That is decidedly not the case here, as each touchpoint is confidently held in veneration.
Ruah - "Dead Friends" | Post-Trash Premiere
Following a digital split single with Bad History Month earlier this summer, Ruah returns with Dead Friends/Feeding Demons, a new lathe cut 8” vinyl single (yeah, one more inch than a measly 7”), due out November 12th via BLIGHT. Records. The single’s a-side is a baroque rock song with Schurr’s main melody played on Marxophone.
Mal Devisa - "12pm Rosewater" | Album Review
Ducks Ltd. - "Modern Fiction" | Album Review
Modern Fiction, their latest release and their first full length, is jangular. Its bread and butter are trebly clean or chorus-pedaled guitar riffs combined with infectiously crafted open chord melodies. However, the attack of these riffs is frantic, and the album’s lyrical themes belie the initial optimism of their tone.
Good Looking Son - "The Neighbor Girl" | Post-Trash Premiere
After six records, Keith Harman is taking a rare pause from The Cowboys to introduce his solo project, Good Looking Son. Set to release Fantasy Weekend, the project’s debut EP on November 18th via Feel It Records (Qlowski, Alien Nosejob, The Cowboy), Harman has never sounded quite so radiant as he does amid these silky AM psych-pop tunes.
Emma Ruth Rundle - "Engine of Hell" | Album Review
Big Heet - "Octogenarians" | Post-Trash Premiere
Set to release Playing The Bug on November 19th, the latest effort finds David Settle joined by his former EXBX bandmate, Adam Berkowitz, on drums, and the pair have shifted Big Heet’s sound once again. Scaling back a degree of the aggression, this one is still full of intensity, textured distortion, and Settle’s knack for memorable songwriting.