Mitski - "The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We" | Album Review
Little Bit - "Long Drive" | Post-Trash Premiere
Following a move across the country, Hannah Liuzzo is back as Little Bit, a brand new solo project. Set to release Talk A Blue Streak, recorded together with Brad Krieger, the sound of the lead single is captivating, residing somewhere between the sugary indie of Lilith and the alt-country emo fuzz of Ratboys.
Subsonic Eye - "All Around You" | Album Review
All Around You finds its roots in the exploration of how to find light in a world that can feel, at times, dark, senseless, and devoid of meaning. From the ashes emerges a hopeful record that encourages listeners to tune in to the beauty that is all around us - if we can only find the courage to look.
Irreversible Entanglements - "Protect Your Light" | Album Review
Irreversible Entanglements are grounded in jazz, or if you want a more precise categorization, spiritual jazz, but this quintet has something that can also be labeled as an experimental post-punk mentality and approach to spiritual jazz. What they have brought to Protect Your Light is the musical experience they gained.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: mclusky - "Unpopular Parts of a Pig / The Digger You Deep"
With ear issues seemingly on the men, it would seem mclusky are ready to reconvene their second coming, a handful of great songs leading the way. The band released as “double A-side” single, with subsequent “double B-sides” to boot, delivered via Bandcamp in order to raise money for international touring and hefty visa costs.
Boris Discuss “Heavy Rocks (2002)” and Being Viewed as Musicians vs. Artists | Feature Interview
In tandem with the band members’ distinct style, akin to ravens who enjoy Yohji Yamamoto, Boris’ cult reputation is only getting stronger. Post-Trash’s Selina Yang had the opportunity to rack Atsuo of Boris’ brain over the 2023 Heavy Rocks remaster, audience backgrounds, and their identity as artists vs. musicians.
Patio - "Collection" | Album Review
Patio’s Collection offers a fresh and exciting expansion of their brittle post-punk by loosening the grooves and imparting a bit of disco inspiration into the formula. They still retain their tight connection and anxious tension, but there is a bit more freedom to explore new directions and challenge themselves to their benefit.
Joshua Carpenter - "Tony Help Me Get A Handle" | Post-Trash Premiere
Carpenter’s songs feel like they’ve existed forever, swirling loosely in the ether until called forth the moment he picks up a guitar. End of the Kicks, his newest collection, is due out September 29 via Durham, NC label/collective PotLuck Foundation. It’s his best work yet, adding a gentle psychedelic shimmer to his classic songwriting.
Sugar Tradition - "Fragile" | Post-Trash Premiere
Detroit’s Sugar Tradition ooze classic garage rock jangle and rock ‘n’ roll excess. Set to release More Sugar on October 13th, the band sound absolutely revved up, their Motor City fuzz fine tuned and never out of fashion. There’s an unfiltered quality to the songs, skidding between MC5 inspired grooves and caterwauling distortion.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (September 4th - September 17th)
Retirement - "Buyer's Remorse" | Album Review
Released via Iron Lung Records, the West Coast purveyors of some of the finest anarcho punk this side of hell on Earth, Buyer’s Remorse wastes no time in uninviting you into its harsh soundscape, filled with diatribes against modern contradictions, life debts, paranoid anxiety, addictive decay, and traces of assorted human wastes.
Feeling Figures - "Movement" | Post-Trash Premiere
Set to release their full length debut, Migration Magic, on November 24th via K Records (Beat Happening) and Perennial Death (Hartle Road, Ribbon Stage, Almond Joy), the ten songs make good on the promise of their debut, and then some, proving Feeling Figures to be one of the most exciting new fuzzy punk bands around.
The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Sunset 666 (Live at Hollywood Palladium)" | Album Review
Aisle Knot - "On Your Phone" | Post-Trash Premiere
Sonic Youth - "Live In Brooklyn 2011" | Album Review
The band’s document of near-impending implosion, Live in Brooklyn 2011, is perhaps the most giving and gracious accidental greatest-hits and entry point to Sonic Youth they could have asked for. It was given a digital release in 2020, but now is the first of any of those digitals to receive a proper physical treatment in this decade.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Tomb Mold - "The Enduring Spirit"
Tomb Mold have pushed boundaries since their formation. With The Enduring Spirit, they’ve decimated form in favor of exploration, from caustic prog to jazzy psych expanses, and dare we say they’ve done it without alienating metal purists. Their latest album favors an open mind, a collision of primal force and deranged technicality.
Josiah Collins - "Spiral" | Post-Trash Premiere
Josiah Collins’ offerings are experiments in top-notch beat making; engaging electronica and techno pieces. On “Spiral,” more of his musical interests appear. He reflects, “After having some of my favorite shoegaze artists on constant rotation for months I fell so in love with the raw and engulfing feeling you get from the distorted guitars and soft vocals.”
Perennial - "The Leaves Of Autumn Symmetry" | Album Review
The constant tinkering of their songs gives the impression of a restless band always reaching for something better than the last time, and in reworking an older batch of songs on The Leaves of Autumn Symmetry, they concede that the best that you’re capable of at any given moment is a shifting target.
Tea Eater "Cosmic Coconut" + Waltzer "Act Like Me" | Post-Trash Premiere
Tea Eater and Waltzer are set to release a split 7” single via A Diamond Heart Production / Amethyst Trax (Symphonic Distribution) in collaboration with La Fam Recordings on September 15th, and it’s readily apparent that their sounds compliment each other well, each offering something decidedly unique, delightfully askew, yet captivating.