"I Have to Write Raps": In Conversation with Defcee | Feature Interview
In November of 2021, Defcee released Trapdoor, a collaboration with producer Messiah Musik. Backwoodz Studioz, the current bastion of forward-thinking rap music released the album, giving Defcee’s already-rising profile a considerable shove. Defcee simultaneously writes from insular and elevated perspectives, presenting a harrowing personal narrative that speaks to the grander dystopia in which we’re mired.
Guerilla Toss - "Famously Alive" | Album Review
Though Famously Alive’s first three songs—also its pre-release singles—hint at a straightforward listen that filters the psych elements of previous album Twisted Crystal through a poppier approach, the rest of the album is anything but, revealing a band whose restlessness provokes ceaseless transformation the moment a new opportunity arises.
Crime of Passing - "Ways of Hiding" | Post-Trash Premiere
Crime of Passing, a tight quintet that has been kicking around locally in Cincinnati for the past five years, are set to release their upcoming self-titled full length debut on April 22nd via Feel It Records. The band pull us deep into the murky waters, embracing coldwave and elements of industrial pop into the shadowy post-punk formula.
Springtime - "Night Raver EP" | Album Review
Springtime is considered a supergroup – and rightfully so. Each of these players is a pillar of their craft, a master at their instrument. Their Night Raver EP may only be three songs, but there’s a lot going on: two very disparate longform opuses and one seven-minute improvisation-adjacent rock song.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (April 4th - April 10th)
Caution - "Hand That Looks Like Mine" | Post-Trash Premiere
Following the dreamy disorientation of lead single “Fuck It Up,” the band whip things into a frenzy with “Hand That Looks Like Mine,” a song Langdon wrote about having thoughts of self-distrust, warranted or not, but Button interpreted to be about the act of performing, giving it a duel meaning to go with the band’s shared vocals.
Hemlock - "Talk Soon" | Album Review
Talk Soon, Hemlock’s latest self-released album, was recorded in Astoria, Oregon, where Chauffe was living during one year of the pandemic. This work differs from her other projects in its production, collaboration, and fullness. Throughout the seventeen tracks, Chauffe braids in windy field recordings and features a selection of voicemails.
Erica Dunn (MOD CON, Tropical Fuck Storm, Palm Springs) Discusses Songwriting, Post-Lockdown Inspiration, and Music Education | Feature Interview
Writing music is a way of life for Erica Dunn. She currently fronts the band MOD CON, offers her unique writing and playing talents to Tropical Fuck Storm, and quietly strums pensive songs on a nylon string guitar for Palm Springs. Dunn spoke to Post-Trash about inspiration, music theory, and what’s next for her myriad of different projects.
The Peacers - "Blexxed Rec" | Album Review
Knowing no melodic bounds, the Peacers’ exceptionally expansive musical palette is apparent, painting in a spectrum of refined subtlety, hypnotic grace, and plangent adventurism. This panoply of hues presents itself in a microtonal, blue note fashion, with chromaticism and a generalized uniqueness of twists-and-turns.
Fulfilment - "Flying White Nimbus" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
“Flying White Nimbus” is not the only song off the band’s succinct and exuberant new album, 10 Colours, that sounds like it starts in the middle—as if you just stumbled upon a passionate rehearsal. Today the Alberta-based trio have dropped a new video for the song, collaborating with animator and multidisciplinary artist Helen Young.
Oceanator on Baritone Guitars and Bad Brain Days in the Making of "Nothing’s Ever Fine" | Feature Interview
Nothing’s Ever Fine is heavier and more conceptual than its predecessor, tied together with a recurring guitar motif, building its absurdity in crushing riffs and buoyant melodies. Ahead of the release, Elise Okusami spoke with Post-Trash about crafting the record’s guitar tones, coping with anxiety, and revisiting her days growing up in the DC music scene.
Renata Zeiguer - "Picnic in the Dark" | Album Review
On Picnic in the Dark, Zeiguer does not hesitate to whisk her listener away to a lush, reverberant world of her own design. By blending contemporary indie pop’s structures with vintage drum machines, old Hollywood strings, and dalliances into bossa nova territory, Zeiguer’s become the architect of her own memories.
Broadcast - "Mother Is The Milky Way" (Reissue) | Album Review
Mother is The Milky Way is not quite a collection of songs and not quite a soundtrack. Rather, it is a twenty-minute meditative experience in an unambiguously Broadcastian space, with equal parts journey through pastoral psychedelic meadows and whiplash-inducing descent into some of the darkest spaces the band has dared to curate.
Scare Quotes - "Tomato" | Post-Trash Premiere
Bush Tetras - "Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras" | Album Review
Palm Friends - "The Delivery" | Album Review
Palm Friends’ music has an easy sound to the ear, with each song stepping into another direction, while keeping it recognizable. It’s a hard thing to do across two or three separate releases, let alone within a single EP. Yet, that is exactly what the Minneapolis quartet have done on The Delivery, their latest record.
