Salt Lick - "The Gift of Missing" LP | Post-Trash Premiere
Simply put, Salt Lick is a die-hard group of musicians within the Seattle DIY scene. Over the past half decade, the band has been sizzling and simmering a handful of slow-burn releases. Salt Lick never fails to impress live and have certainly elevated their songwriting and studio chops with their most recent release, The Gift of Missing.
Lawn - "Summertime" | Post-Trash Compilation Feature
Cheekface - "Ballad Of Big Nothing" (Elliott Smith cover) | Post-Trash Compilation Feature
Dark Tea - "Dark Tea" | Album Review
While the record has a great sense of cohesiveness overall, a massive amount of collaboration took place at every stage of the record. Gary Canino is the mastermind behind Dark Tea, but twenty two people worked on the album in total. Among them, eight people had a hand in recording, mixing, producing, and mastering Dark Tea.
So Totally - "In The Shape Of..." | Album Review
On the whole, in the shape of... doesn’t latch directly onto any single genre. So Totally comically tagged “fuck a genre” on the album’s Bandcamp page. They’ve drawn influence from a wide range of subgenres and experiment with creating massive walls-of-sound, incorporating field recorded clips, and blurring contrasted audio qualities together.
Holding Patterns - "Endless" | Album Review
halfsour - "Sticky" LP | Post-Trash Premiere
Radiator Hospital - "Sings 'Music For Daydreaming'" LP | Post-Trash Premiere
On Radiator Hospital's newest offering, Sings ‘Music For Daydreaming’ Cook-Parrot has gone back to his original bedroom-esque singer-songwriter roots. Everything on this release was written and performed by him, as lo-fi qualities of earlier Radiator Hospital releases have been replaced with a polished, hi-fi sensibility.
Fluung - "Satellite Weather" | Album Review
Their first full-length album Satellite Weather came out at the start of this year and pays homage to many legendary acts of decades past. Fluung is invested in exploring new ideas to further push their sound and have remained motivated by pivotal indie rock bands that became famous for emphasizing the power of the jam.
Distants - "White Flags" | Post-Trash Premiere
Mr. Husband - "Stone Cold Killer" | Post-Trash Premiere
Vacation - "Capitol Drive" | Post-Trash Premiere
Wasting no time at all the song casts out a hook driven by syncopated drums, bass, and rhythm guitar, alongside a warbling guitar lead. The distorted nature of the bass tone reveals itself on the upswing of the intro, which marches forward as vocals enter with a few sparsely punk nuances breaking up the guitar chords.
Half Thought - "Half Thought" | Album Review
Coaster - "Stuck With It" | Album Review
Young Jesus - "The Whole Thing Is Just There" | Album Review
Young Jesus doesn’t get lumped into typical genres and “FFO” tags very often. They are four musical boundary pushers possessing a sharpened, unique set of characteristics to the way they jam. Complete with a philosophical backing, their music surges through moments of calculated improvisation and engulfing lyrical depth
