Abronia make psych rock with influences from around the world, a comprehensive mix of mind expanding music that pulls inspiration from the Saharan desert, Canterbury folk, and spaghetti Westerns. A sound without regionality, they add elements of drone, jazz, and pastoral doom to create something thats lost in time and space
To listen to any one Kamikaze Nurse song would leave a vastly incomplete picture of their sound, one that is as fluid as it is accessible. Having shared the dreamy gaze of “Boom Josie” and the pop bombast of “Come From Wood,” Kamikaze Nurse’s third single gives a touch of the band’s weirder side, and it’s one of the record’s stand-outs.
I Could Get Used to This sounds like nothing you’ll hear this year, as Spring Silver continues to push their sound through distinct stylistic choices and lean, undeniable songwriting. Post-Trash was lucky enough to chat with K Nkaza about community collaboration, emotions in songwriting, the year 2008 and more.
At this place in space/ time, there is an absolute aura around Tha God Fahim. With a constant, steady flow, ciphered from the ether, there seems no slowing Fahim - he has tapped into our divine consciousness, leveeing the spring to run like a river, and crafting soundscapes in the elegantly sophisticated fashion of legends.
Trevor Nikrant is one-third of Nashville’s Styrofoam Winos. This past November, he released Tall Ladders, a riveting collection of psych-tinged pop and folk rock, traversing a vast spectrum of settings and psyches. Post-Trash’s Joe Guiterrez met up with Nikrant to chat about his songwriting process, David Berman, and Nashville.
Nate Mendolsohn has a few other releases of mostly rough and scratchy lo-fi type sketches under his belt as Market, however on this record there is an ever shifting psychedelic hue and a touch of folk influenced honesty. His songs become fully fleshed out with his band providing ample counterparts to the slightly twisted arrangements
Cave People’s Dave Tomaine remains helplessly captivated by the wind. On the band’s forthcoming album entitled Wind Burn, out May 20th via Disposable America, Tomaine and his band (mems Golden Apples, Marge, etc) reflect on the potential for wind to teach, guide, but also to simply not to care since it’s blowing wherever it’s going to, anyway.
Rip Room make post-hardcore music with an air of art pop exuberance. Their upcoming album, Alight and Resound, is tightly wound and serrated at the edges. While there’s nothing remotely “top 40” about their “pop” inclinations, there is an understated lightness, the kind you might associate with bands like Dismemberment Plan.
“Repetition is the mother of learning” and “the devil is in the details”. These are the maxims William Basinski and Janek Schaefer abide by here. Picking up on piano passages recorded anywhere between 2014 and 2022, the duo explore how weaving passages can create repetition, but small changes can make a big difference in sound.
Luke Csehak, writer, singer, instrumentalist, and producer of the album Budget Alchemy and the band The Lentils, seems to be having a crisis on the usefulness of language. His fondness for words and his troubles with them (“the words fail every time”) are articulated clearly and strangely throughout the album, proving his point.
Cal Fish’s upcoming album Less Than Three is an ambitious project, and yet it’s so much more. To call it an “album” feels like a bit of a misnomer, as the multi-media release does indeed include an album, but also encompasses a clothing line, a visual record, and a remix album, all released simultaneously by the Brooklyn based artist.
For Bandcamp Friday, Gardenhead Records is announcing a double-cassette release for their massive 47-track compilation May Day Music: A Benefit Compilation For Strike Funds & Artists. Featuring the likes of Radiator Hospital, Deerhoof, Pile, and Palberta, it’s the not-for-profit label’s fourth such release in the past two years.
Tijuana Panthers have been at it long enough to earn veteran status, and Halfway To Eighty, the band’s sixth full length record makes good on all that mileage. Due out June 24th via the band’s long-term home at Innovative Leisure, the band describe as the album as a dedication to a lifetime of making music.
Tomberlin has expanded her accompaniment with strings and a rhythm section to reach a new intensity that was not as present on previous recordings. She writes some of the most heart-rendering and emotionally vulnerable lyrics, her words imparted with a hushed tenderness and an underlying strength and determination.
Though Caution’s members are separated by many States, they’ve produced their first full length album Arcola, packed to the gills with fuzzy distortion and pop chops. The duo touch on their influences of mid-late 80’s noise-pop/shoegaze with a ton of respect while managing to throw in dashes of modern dream-pop.
From concept to recording, woods calls Aethiopes “one of more symbiotic, feedback-loop processes of making an album that I probably ever had.” He’s right. woods and Preservation’s collaboration is symbiotic in a way that feels ordained; it’s impossible to imagine this album produced in any other way.
