Al Menne - "Freak Accident" | Album Review
Great Grandpa made a splash with the phenomenal Four of Arrows in 2019. Since then, they’ve been working on a wide assortment of personal projects. Among them is Freak Accident, the latest release from Al Menne, the bands’ lead singer - a record that finds him hitting his most intimate, personal, and soft spoken songwriting moments yet.
Family Vision - "Chop Shop" | Album Review
Hot Garbage’s “Precious Dream” is a Beautiful Nightmare | Feature Interview
Hot Garbage’s brand new sophomore album, Precious Dream, is a foray into the limitless liminal spaces of disorientation; its goal is to find solace in the chaos, to laugh in the face of cruelty. Juliana Carlevaris (bass/vocals) spoke with Post-Trash about inspiration, experimentation, and the mysticism at the record’s core.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: PACKS - "Melt The Honey"
Toronto’s PACKS return with Melt the Honey, their third full length and their second within a span of a year, continuing to cover new ground as they go. Fronted by Madeline Link, their sound plays from a controlled burn of garage rock, anti-folk and the barebones of pop-eccentricism, redefining the mundane with gasps of fixation and sincerity.
Monocot - "Leave To Cool" | Album Review
Variety - "Plover" | Post-Trash Premiere
Variety, a new band led by Rhys Woodruff (Borzoi, Leche) has arrived. While best known as a drummer/vocalist, he’s moved beyond the kit to write, perform, and record the entirety of Variety’s debut single, equal parts arty punk and deranged alternative rock. “Plover” is a triumphant introduction, a jittery song that feels knotted yet supremely hooky.
Jalen Ngonda - "Come Around And Love Me" | Album Review
Evoking Marvin Gaye, Ngonda’s falsetto and beautiful orchestration is a modern interpretation of the classic soul music many of us grew up on. It’s hard not to immediately feel a sense of nostalgia for Motown oldies and soul when listening to the tight instrumentation and themes of unrequited love, heartbreak, and becoming a better person.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (January 8th - January 14th)
Glaring Orchid - "Swimmer" | Post-Trash Premiere
The Philly / New Brunswick band, led by Quinn Mulvihill, have ventured beyond the digital realm into a dense form of swarming shoegaze and layered slowcore. Working together with Tim Jordan (Sun Organ) at Blood Red Sky, Glaring Orchid’s full length debut arrives fully formed, with equal parts graceful nuance and blaring distortion.
Brazilian Rhythms, Pandemic Isolation, and a Cat Named Penny: Inside the Making of Blonde Redhead’s "Sit Down for Dinner" | Feature Interview
On a wet December morning, Post-Trash caught up with Blonde Redhead drummer and percussionist, Simone Pace, who spoke with us from his home in upstate New York. Pace shed some light on the making of Sit Down for Dinner, the unexpected role a canceled tour with Tool played, and the best feline cameo on an album.
Esther Rose - "Safe 2 Run (Versions)" | Album Review
Safe To Run captured Esther Rose’s potential, both as a songwriter and performer. Maybe it was just a natural progression, but she seems to have reached her full musical maturity. It’s expressed in the fact that when she writes her songs she’s able to envision them in a number of versions, with almost each one being the right one.
Grazia - "Cheap" | Post-Trash Premiere
London duo Grazia are here for the sleaze punks, making clean and rattling garage punk with heavy pop hooks and minimalist structures. Their sound is catchy, indebted both to 80’s new wave and a more radiant KBD sound, each song on their upcoming debut, In Poor Taste, packing a gluey charm that’s hard to resist.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (December 4th - January 7th)
Full Body 2 - "Infinity Signature" | Album Review
After upgrading from Version 1 to Version 2, the band started producing luscious, gossamer shoegaze tracks that draw on digital soundscapes. Along with a drum and bass track at the end of each, this is what made up their first two demos. Now with their latest, infinity signature, the band continue this sound, further developing a new world.
Subsonic Eye | Feature Interview
Frida Kill - "Kill! Kill!" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Physique - "Overcome By Pain"
Olympia’s Physique have returned with Overcome By Pain, a blistering six track EP on Seattle’s Iron Lung Records, giving a form to the noise of the body – the body reacting to the deep silence keeping this rotten imperialist foundation in place. Fresh off February’s Again, Physique continue their d-beat bombardment.
a.s.o. - "a.s.o." | Album Review
As echoed keys welcome melting synths, crushing drum loops knotted around a lustful, intimate voice awaken. That is how a.s.o. opens – the collaborative effort of eclectic house producer Lewie Day (Tornado Wallace) and singer Alia Seror-O’Neill (Alias Error) – and it is the modern reinvigoration of sleek ‘90s downtempo.
Wesley Wolffe - "Streets" | Post-Trash Premiere
Returning with a teaser for Good Kind, Wesley Wolffe’s new full-length album set to be released January 12, he doubles down in tenacity and charm on his latest single, “Streets”. Grown out of sweaty spontaneity, fractured instrumentations and deliberate angst, “Streets” finds him eerily attuned to the characters around him everyday.