Sweeping Promises’ powerful piercing vocals, grungy guitar, and oddly hypnotizing synth lines combine with the post-punk atmosphere to make this band unforgettable, leaving the listener with a lasting impression. The album deals with depressing themes, different forms of distress, yet the duo’s sound remains bright .
Naked Era, the sophomore album of Chicago indie rock artist Chaepter, is a shadowy and pulsing collection of songs. His debut for the Boston-based Candlepin Records is fraught with emotion and prairie-sized dread. Songs loom over you, closing in around you as you listen like a dense fog or hundred-pound weighted blanket of sound.
Vessel’s music is dynamic, bouncing through disjointed skronk one moment and intertwined in dense melodies the next. Led by Alex Tuisku, who handles vocals and drums, it makes sense that the rhythms and hooks are given equal focus, bright spots with a locked-in pulse that allows the rest of the band to flood the mix with any and all textures.
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.
Characteristically, The Collective is full of distortion albeit in a manner different from Gordon’s solo debut. The album is fully alive to our present moment. The hip-hop elements – the trap percussion, the heavy bass lines, the thick production quality – establish this fixation, proving once more that Gordon remains as forward thinking as ever.
Total Sham dropped their self-titled label debut on Under the Gun Records. It's antagonistic in the extreme; with the kind of hostility you'd expect from an exasperated python, darting around violently with no care for its surroundings. In much the same vein as their hardcore predecessors, they run on maximum amplitude.
floral print’s guide to practical living and magical thinking, due out on May 17th via the trifecta of Rope Bridge Records, Bee Side Cassettes, and Pleasure Tapes, finds the band making up for lost time with a swirling mix of ever expanding ideas, structures, and experimental pop songs that really knows no bounds.
The stem that once bent towards the sun has cold-snapped on Tomato Flower’s debut record, No. They bear a heavier sound, embracing racing riffs and delving into darker subject matter. Gone are their golden days, their early days of construction – the sun has set, it’s time to tear down and bring it all home for a dreamless night.
Debbie Dopamine have been making their presence known with a shimmering intensity that produces unflinching insight into their world. On their new single "Worried," the band continue their propensity for deep diving into emotions only to come out the other side with a steely strength and empowerment that continues to bloom.
Forming in 1984 in Hoboken, the band has had a permanent line-up since 1992 with Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, and James McNew. Their latest EP features live recordings from This Stupid World, as well as their old beloved track, “Stockholm Syndrome,” off their eighth album, I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One.
Having trudged through the mud and now in a period of rebirth, Meatbodies newest album Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom presents strength in transparency. Things have changed, yet their spirit remains uncrushable. As possibly their most expansive and open project thus far, the band breathe fresh air into this stand-alone triumph.
Variety between and within all the songs gets at the main essence of Casting Spells at Turtlehead. The special quality of this release is how diverse the different parts are. The constantly shifting and jumping nature of the album creates this strange and enthralling experience that conjures up disjointed and hazy but familiar scenes.
