ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Black Curse - "Burning in Celestial Poison"
Aaberg - "Mouth" | Post-Trash Premiere
For Hunter Mockett, who makes hypnotic, closely held music as Aaberg, his first months in Philly offered a dichotomy: a chaotic city and a cozy domicile. On “Mouth,” the first single from Wishing Well (out August 2nd via Forged Artifacts), Mockett’s near-whisper vocals betray the sense of gratitude and perseverance.
Tex Patrello - "Resident Evil" | Post-Trash Premiere
Tex Patrello’s limited output since her debut EP has taken the best of contemporary DIY slowcore and doused it in a dizzying solution of soft-spoken vocals and off-the-wall production. Now, at long last, she’s back, debuting the first single, “Resident Evil,” off her debut album Minotaur, out May 2nd through View No Country (Bedlocked, Deadharrie).
Disintegration - "In Your Diary" | Post-Trash Premiere
Disintegration - "Time Moves for Me" | Album Review
The minds that brought you Profligate, Pleasure Leftists, Cloud Nothings, and Nothing Phase fit each other brilliantly on Time Moves for Me, the debut EP from the supergroup of the Cleveland underground. Somewhere between synth rock and post-punk, Disintegration charts an alternative path forward that is, simply, cooler.
Silver Car Crash - "Sun Dried Tomatoes" | Post-Trash Premiere
On their forthcoming Crafted Sounds / Michi Tapes LP, Shattered Shine, the maturing quartet grapples with climate doom, political apathy, and the growing pains every late twenty-something must endure. Silver Car Crash dances about, no answers to their grand questions in sight, but enjoying the journey as much as anyone can.
Buddie - "Take What's Left" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Convinced Friend - "White Collar" | Post-Trash Premiere
Spacemoth - "No Past No Future" | Album Review
Anxiety was getting in the way of Maryam Qudus’ creative work as Spacemoth until she realized she could channel her concerns through her synthesizers. The end result is an impressive debut album for the sought-after analog producer – the 13-track record, No Past No Future, is some of the most potent retro-futurism out there.
Frances Chang - "Support Your Local Nihilist" | Album Review
For Frances Chang, psychedelia can be found in the crosshairs of art rock, freak folk, bedroom punk, and more in a soupy mess of modified consciousness. On her first full-length under her own name, support your local nihilist, all those influences coagulate into an unapologetically honest and intense expression of her irreplicable vantage point.
First Rodeo - "Pucker Up, Amelia" | Post-Trash Premiere
Primitive Man - "Insurmountable" | Album Review
Primitive Man’s latest release, the EP Insurmountable, builds on their brutal foundation over four tracks spread out over forty minutes. At no point does the EP prove to be an easy listen, but inflections of groove and harmony offer a little bait-and-switch that leads listeners right back into the pit of chaos that the band curates so well.
Cave People - "Bones" | Post-Trash Premiere
Cave People’s Dave Tomaine remains helplessly captivated by the wind. On the band’s forthcoming album entitled Wind Burn, out May 20th via Disposable America, Tomaine and his band (mems Golden Apples, Marge, etc) reflect on the potential for wind to teach, guide, but also to simply not to care since it’s blowing wherever it’s going to, anyway.
Turbo World - "My Challenger" | Album Review
Renata Zeiguer - "Picnic in the Dark" | Album Review
On Picnic in the Dark, Zeiguer does not hesitate to whisk her listener away to a lush, reverberant world of her own design. By blending contemporary indie pop’s structures with vintage drum machines, old Hollywood strings, and dalliances into bossa nova territory, Zeiguer’s become the architect of her own memories.
Bedbug - "Bedbug" | Album Review
The tape features reworkings of hit bedbug tracks spanning six years that make the most of classic four-piece rock band instrumentation. While the halcyon bedroom pop days of multi-tracked guitars and fuzzy synths may be behind the project, there is no need to mourn; bedbug’s singular approach to diaristic songwriting suits indie rock well.
Boris - "W" | Album Review
For W, the companion piece to 2020’s NO, the rowdiness is dialed back towards an icy, dreamy landscape with movements that make the listener feel so weightless that one has to wonder if the record has medicinal properties. W is still just as intense as its predecessors, but the intensity manifests - and thus affects - in a transfixing way.
Mitski - "Laurel Hell" | Album Review
Fashion Pimps & The Glamazons - "Jazz 4 Johnny" | Album Review
Comprised of members of Cloud Nothings, Profligate, The Mind, and more Cleveland rock legends, Fashion Pimps & The Glamazons lunge forward with mutant post-punk, blending no-wave, noise, and more into an alarming yet danceable seven tracks that clock in under twenty total minutes. Each track is infectious, curious, and off-kilter.