Mogwai Gets You Back: An Interview with Post Trash
Writing Your Own Obituary with 7xvethegenius | Feature Interview
7xvethegenius — “Love” for the uninitiated — has one of rap’s unique flows. Poetic in rhythm and biting in delivery, 7xve’s wordplay is like a prize fighter, ducking jabs and delivering knock out blows. She spoke with Post-Trash’s Benji Heywood about perseverance, technology, and her new album, Death Of Deuce.
Chasing the Feeling with Friko | Feature Interview
William Basinski and the Music of Time | Feature Interview
It’s hard to imagine a larger gulf between an artist’s persona—in Basinski’s case: joyous, bawdy, mischievous—and work. Basinski’s decaying tape loops are desperately lonely and beautiful, yielding one of ambient music’s most influential works, The Disintegration Loops, among many others. Attending a live performance of the work is akin to experiencing a new sense.
The Dummy Guide to DIY Touring | Feature Interview
The Crimes of Party Dozen | Feature Interview
Kal Marks: Finding Light in a Darkening World | Feature Interview
Power to the People: Finom on Chicago, Jeff Tweedy, and their Excellent New Album | Feature Interview
Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart are free to take risks, a position that suits them and their music. The videos for the album’s advance singles reflect a similar truth: there’s a lot more going on with Finom than a cursory listen suggests. Post-Trash sat down with the duo for a glimpse into the making of the album and videos, working with Jeff Tweedy, plus their thoughts on how the power of community can combat postmodern cynicism.
Believe in Sour Widows: Faith, Grief and a Debut Album Seven Years in the Making | Feature Interview
As Sour Widows’ profile has grown, their personal lives have been scarred by grief. The following interview is about the juxtaposition between grief and faith. It’s about how friendship has carried this charismatic songwriting partnership to lauded new heights while serving as a lifeline both have counted on when everything else turned to shit.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: SUMAC - "The Healer"
The scope and grandeur of The Healer begs comparison to an epic novel or a film auteur’s masterpiece making it impossible to distill its essence into one catchy tagline. Which is the point. At 76 minutes, it’s oceanic, a leviathan of tones, tempos, and motifs which run the gamut of improvisational noise, sludge, meditative pastorals, and some straight-up heart-palpitating riffs.
Everything in Opposition: Geoff Barrow on Beak> and the Lessons Learned from 30 years Wrestling the Music Industry
If you’ve never listened to Beak>, >>>> is an ideal introduction. It’s a showcase of Geoff Barrow’s idiosyncratic vision of music—part psych, part prog, all strange. The album, which Billy Fuller, Will Young, and Barrow wrote together, carries an exciting air of improvisation, even while it’s clear that the music is painstakingly deliberate. What follows is our free-ranging conversation about all things Beak> and how Barrow’s experiences in the industry shaped one of music’s most unusual bands.
Curiosity Vs Expectation: A Conversation with SUMAC’s Aaron Turner
With SUMAC’s fifth album, The Healer, arriving later this month via Thrill Jockey, Post-Trash took the opportunity to speak with Aaron Turner on the eve of the band’s upcoming tour. Our wide-ranging conversation is perhaps best framed as a discussion of aesthetic ontology in the digital age—what is art today and why still make it? For a band who routinely releases albums with hour-plus runtimes where individual songs are more akin to orchestral movements than traditional metal songs, these are questions worth exploring.
“Randomness Is Impossible”: Bill Orcutt on "Four Guitars Live" | Feature Interview
The Quiet Part Loud: BIG|BRAVE on Their Beautiful New Album | Feature Interview
Mulva on the Enduring Power of Friendship, Self-Confidence and DIY Music | Feature Interview
Ask Christina Puerto, Mulva’s singer and principal songwriter, and she’ll tell you there’s still power in the DIY ethos. Mulva’s debut album Bitter Form, just released via Sad Cactus, is testament to that power, a bombastic work of emotional resonance. Post-Trash spoke with Puerto about her unlikely musical journey and the people who helped her along the way.
Mary Timony On What Really Matters | Feature Interview
If the world feels especially cruel, Mary Timony is the last to know. Speaking to Post-Trash from her home on the eve of Untame the Tiger’s release, the singer and guitar virtuoso sounds carefree and positive. This juxtaposition between heavy circumstance and her unsinkable attitude reflects what Untame the Tiger does so well.
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.
Portishead - "Roseland NYC Live 25" (Reissue) | Album Review
Roseland Live NYC – which paired a gripping performance by Gibbons and co. with a full band and orchestral strings, horns, and woodwinds – would be the last music Portishead would release for over a decade. Now, 25 years later, the band has reissued the album as Roseland NYC Live 25, newly remastered, and for the first time in its complete form.
Great Falls - "Objects Without Pain" | Album Review
Objects Without Pain is a trick mirror in its aural attack on convention, appearing both flawed and flawless. Dissonant chords make songs sound out-of-tune, song structures writhe like trapped reptiles, vocals scream at the unhinged limit of the human larynx. Listening to the album is akin to watching trains collide in slow motion.