Wireheads - "Hook Echo" | Post-Trash Premiere
As Dom Trimboli found himself sitting on a batch of songs that could only be Wireheads, the members found themselves pulled back in, coming together to create their exceptional new record, Potentially Venus. Due out June 23rd via Tenth Court, the band sound unnervingly alive, the time away resulting in a deeper bond.
Shana Cleveland Brings "Manzanita" to New York City | Live Review
On the first leg of touring behind her new full-length Manzanita, Shana Cleveland and her band played the Mercury Lounge and Sultan Room on April 21st and 22nd, with support from MAITA. In the live transmuting of its studio sound, Manzanita’s fractal sensations were ingeniously amplified—bursting into exciting new dimensions, cosmic and otherwise.
Natural Information Society - "Since Time Is Gravity" | Album Review
The HIRS Collective - "We're Still Here" | Album Review
We’re Still Here, boasts a truly impressive roster of collaborators. With contributions from collaborators such as Melt-Banana, Thou, Marissa Paternoster, Shirley Manson, SOUL GLO, Sunrot, and Gouge Away - just to name “a few” - this record sets out to platform the voices of as many individuals and identities from the scene as possible.
A Very Special Episode - "$5 Cover" | Post-Trash Premiere
“$5 Cover,” the record’s third single, isn’t the Fugazi tribute you might be hoping for, but rather a loving homage to band’s own musical community forged around the DIY space East Williamsburg Econolodge. The song is pulsing with dirgy bass and punchy vocal melodies, seething in the shadows one moment but vibrant and hooky the next.
Esther Rose - "Safe To Run" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Pearl & The Oysters - "Coast 2 Coast"
Coast 2 Coast, the band’s fourth album and first for Stones Throw, documents the band’s journey from their former home in Florida to their current in LA, building a surrealistic odyssey of video games, ocean front beaches, and fantastical bliss. Pearl & The Oysters use their daydream psych to bring a sense of the majestic to the mundane.
Heartworms - "A Comforting Notion" | Album Review
Pearl & The Oysters - "Coast 2 Coast" | Album Review
Maximalist and controlled, Pearl & The Oysters have created a fully formed concept and sense of self. Far from Brave New World, this album quite nearly suggests there is no dystopia (or utopia) in the human being-toward-technology. It just is and the party is happening no matter what. You can love this fate and join in the dance.
FACS - "Still Life In Decay" | Album Review
PACKS - "Crispy Crunchy Nothing" | Album Review
Crispy Crunchy Nothing is the latest album from PACKS, the nom de guitare of Toronto DIY rocker Madeline Link. The fourteen song, thirty minute LP is clearly indebted to the larger ‘90s alt/indie rock movement, but it celebrates that lineage with a renewed sense of passion, efficiency, and inventiveness.
Deerhoof - "Miracle-Level" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Poison Ruïn - "Härvest"
Härvest, Poison Ruïn’s second album overall (depending how you look at it) and first record together with their new label, retains the band’s flair for the medieval, distilled in the toil and struggle of the era’s poor and working class, a sentiment that hasn’t changed all that much in modern times.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (April 10th - April 16th)
Yours Are The Only Ears - "We Know The Sky" | Album Review
We Know the Sky, the sophomore full length album from Yours Are the Only Ears (aka Susannah Cutler), provides the listener with heartfelt melodies and intensity, manifesting itself through nature and vivid imagery. Cutler's songs are full of spirit and tender ruminations on the travails of love and the ever changing world around us.
Beige Palace - "Waterloo Sublet (Live at Hohm)" | Post-Trash Premiere
Last Friday saw the triumphant return of Leeds based trio Beige Palace, the band joining together with London’ Cassels for a new split 7”. Out via Human Worth and God Unknown Records, “Waterloo Sublet” breaks a four year absence for Beige Palace, their first new music since the gloriously unnerving Leg LP.
Life In Vacuum - "Lost" | Album Review
Vincent Reese - "Running Wild" | Post-Trash Premiere
With his debut album Embarrassingly Hard due out April 20th via Tallahassee’s RIP Records, we meet Vincent Reese aka “Vicious Vinnie,” a project that’s as much sketch show as it is punk band. Drawing influences from Beastie Boys, Le Tigre, and Viagra Boys, there’s a sordid comedic sense to his stoned brand of anything goes charm.
