Olivia W-B (Rong) wrote Minis in a garage one day and recorded it with Nikita Manin (clarinet) and Andrew Jones (bass) in a living room the next. The trio’s unfettered fifteen minute effort contains seven tracks stemming from similar ideas and mindsets. Living up to its name, each miniature feels like a piece of songwriting occurring in real time.
Century Egg know how to write songs that stick like a greasy cowlick in the morning, and their latest EP is a capillaceous pillar of joy-struck guitar rock that refuses to be combed back down. The Halifax quartet’s cross between punk, garage and Mandopop makes for some deliriously exuberant “rock and roll” music.
Sharkula connects again with Max Allison’s ever-glitched Mukqs moniker for Take Caution On The Beach, the most lurid and fruitful Sharkula collaboration yet. Wharton’s meandering verses wallow and wedge into Allison’s rhythmic nooks and cornerless crannies, the fluid beats mirroring the MC’s signature, hot-off-the-cuff delivery.
Floatie operated in a constant state of unfinalized growth for the better part of their existence, becoming a sharper band, a better-every-time-you-see-them band. Voyage Out is the culmination of these pursuits, an excellent and cohesive collection of skittering “frog rock” enveloped by the quartet’s clever arrangements of balmy bass and twin guitars.
Moontype have been fleshing out their sound since 2019, allowing individual influence to elevate McCarthy’s songwriting while dilating the music’s emotional scope with a distinct sound and texture. Post-Trash caught up with them before the release of Bodies of Water to talk about geology, Incubus, their creative approach, Earnest the goldfish and the year with no tours.
Last year’s Yalc Nitsua Mailliw found Yalc123 taking on a new approach to songwriting. By writing melodies first, followed by lyrics, then chord progressions, they worked from top to bottom, essentially working “in reverse.” We were able to catch up with Yalc over Zoom about their creative process, musical inspiration, Texas and more.
The Deals are now your new favorite family band. The Chicago-based quintet released Clear and Severe at the end of January and holy cow. If you’ve ever enjoyed pop music in the slightest, you will find something to enjoy on The Deals’ debut. The band discuss their album, Fountains of Wayne, The Beatles, and more.
Post-Trash is premiering a new track from the brainchild of K Nkaza. The song is called “Set Up A Camera” and it’s pretty wild. Not a lot of people are making the kind of music Nkaza is making right now. Her self-described queer metal/they/them-core/post-emo tunes shuffle prog, nu metal and “alternative rock” with taste and grace.
All That Has Come Apart/Once Did Not Exist is by no means a quarantine record, but rather a brilliant reflection of the present; as it was, is, and will continue to be. Sonny Falls’ latest puts our time-specific realities into perspective; what happened then happens now and will happen forever, everything all of the time.
With three members relocated to Georgia, Mamalarky have adopted a new creative quarters, an open space for sustained musical bouts. We caught up with Mamalarkey in their fresh dental dwellings about their creative process, missing tour, being friends with your bandmates and Leonard Cohen’s “touring curtains.”
Welcome to Pop 40 Town, baby. The sights! The sounds! The, err, more sounds! Take it all in, because we’re only here for a few short tracks, but damn are those tracks gold. Despite releasing a pair of EPs and a healthy handful of loosies this year, Nate Amos is releasing another This is Lorelei EP, co-produced by Lily Konigsberg.
Cordoba is a group of politically and socially driven individuals committed to radical social change in resistance to the oppressive systems in place. The six-piece jazz fusion group formed at University of Chicago, but has since breached the bubble of higher education by connecting with like-minded musicians in DIY spaces.
Sam Wenc has been going by Post Moves since 2012, and the project has got a new record coming out on Noumenal Loom at the end of the month. Today we’re premiering the Sandy Ewan-directed video for “Karen’s Ride With Grace,” a phantasmagorical sequence capturing Wenc’s union of digital and natural realities.
