Rose Mercie - "¿KIERES AGUA?" | Album Review
Kieres Agua is straightforward enough to speak volumes about its intent. These songs feel like individual statements, a series of "installations" that you can spin through while grappling with how the record at-large will land within your life. Not every path is as interesting, but it helps you explore your biases and favorites in a way that all great art should.
The Human Fly - "A New Perspective" | Post-Trash Premiere
Philly/NYC five piece The Human Fly are gearing up to release their third studio album Thrill of Living on August 5 via the always reliable Dead Definition. While it feels like Robert Mathis is the primary songwriter, The Human Fly is very much a band and Thrill of Living is their tightest and most ambitious project yet.
Naima Bock - "Giant Palm" | Album Review
Me You Us Them - "Humilitarian" | Post-Trash Premiere
Me You Us Them are starting anew, set to follow 2010’s Post-Data with new album, Sound Confirms. The band have been working on and off over the past decade, which included a break-up after the initial sessions. They couldn’t stay away though, and persisted in building on their shoegaze, post-hardcore, and 90’s “space rock” influences.
Dimples' - " Soul Chateau" | Album Review
On Soul Chateau, Dimples’ often defines the experience of looking at natural phenomenons. The songs dip listeners into a blue pool of vibration, guitar twangs and a creeping beat. Where “the night is young and the road bends,” Dimples’ psychedelic obscure-rock compositions give dusty and warbling landscapes.
Post-Trash's Mid-Year Report: Our Favorites Releases of 2022 (January thru June)
We present our “Mid-Year Report," a comprehensive guide to our favorite releases of the first half of this year, without any pre-determined length or insignificant rankings. If we’re into it, we're including it (unless we plumb forgot it or just haven’t spent enough time with it… which happens, in which case our sincerest of apologies).
Sled Island 2022 Highlights | Festival Coverage
Sled Island was back this year, taking place June 22nd through the 26th. The festival takes place in downtown Calgary, Alberta over five days at a bunch of different venues throughout the city, featuring over 200 artists in rock, hip-hop, and experimental music. Post-Trash’s Matt Watton reported on some of the best acts he saw.
Eerie Wanda - "Sail To The Silver Sun" | Post-Trash Premiere
This year marks the return of Eerie Wanda, but like much of her career to date, Marina Tadic is once again taking a shift in her sound. Internal Radio, due out 9/23 via Joyful Noise Recordings, pulls away some of the buoyancy and breeziness of her past work, instead opting for something shadowier, with heavy keys and smoky atmospherics.
Grass Jaw - "Circles" | Album Review
MISZCZYK - "Lunar Days" (feat. Craig Fahner) | Post-Trash Premiere
Having shared a slew of great singles, MISZCZYK is unleashing “Lunar Days,” a collaboration with Motorists’ Craig Fahner. The song has an effortless chemistry, as MISZCZYK taps into a kinetic motorik pulse, pulling from the krautrock and jangle pop textures of Motorists, while offering something decidedly different.
Flasher - "Love Is Yours" | Album Review
Love is Yours’ is a much less angular sound than we have come to expect from Flasher. Priding themselves on collaborative songwriting, losing a member was always going to affect the musical direction but what’s resulted from that tectonic shift is some infectiously catchy music with signature vocal unison and harmonies.
Astrel K - "Flickering i" | Album Review
Flickering i is a strange and addicting album. Listening feels like watching as someone makes a thing piecemeal in front of you. Listening is like the feeling of being tailed by your own ghost. These metaphors for Flickering i may sound esoteric, but they’re reasonable descriptions after a few listens.
Debbie Dopamine - "Get Better" | Post-Trash Premiere
Despondent - "Other Girls Too" | Album Review
Jacob Turnbloom - "Balboa Park" | Post-Trash Premiere
April Magazine - "If The Ceiling Were A Kite: Vol. 1" | Album Review
The music is rich, anciently fresh, maybe altogether timeless, at least in its ability to capture a certain presence - an aesthetic dripped in honesty and the fruits of happy moments. What memories might be hashed in with a time of more relative freedom, surface in the emotional reaction, none-the-less.
Shilpa Ray - "Portrait of a Lady" | Album Review
The twelve track record is described as the punk dynamo's "most searing and personal album to date," and was penned "in the wake of the #metoo movement and the weathering years of the Trump Administration" as a means for Ray to work out years of personal abuse. It'll shake you to your core with glamor and violence in equal measure.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (June 6th - June 19th)
Fashion Club's Pascal Stevenson on the Many Masks of "Scrutiny" | Feature Interview
In a literal sense, as a veteran touring musician with her band Moaning and as a sometimes-live-player with acts like Cherry Glazer and Girlpool, Stevenson is well-acquainted with performance and presentation. On Scrutiny, she draws on that musical experience to show its falseness as well as its potential to reveal deeper, darker truth.