“Post-punk’s latest poster boys” ask Where’s My Utopia? on their newest album, a tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic, and groovy record. They create a very dynamic and lighthearted kind of sound, which shows how much they’ve grown since The Overlord. Listening to this album is immersive and feels transcendent, like entering a vivid dreamscape.
The Pilgrim, Their God, and The King of My Decrepit Mountain is a fantastically listenable record whose somewhat cryptic narrative never distracts from the truly great songs and detailed arrangements, and instead only increases the intriguing nature of it all. It's both digestible and obtuse, and in that contradiction the album finds its magic.
No one song on the record sounds much like the others, and as her role in the ensemble shifts from song to song, Rosali's voice and vantage point shifts, too. Rather than being an inconsistency, this is a unique, characteristic strength of Rosali's artistry. With Bite Down, she becomes multitudinous.
David DiAngelis is the artistic stamina behind the Brooklyn-based bedroom project, Helenor. His sophomore record, A public place, has become an embodiment of his last few years of transition. He spoke with Post-Trash’s Shea Roney about the movement in his life and the changes he made in the name of betterment.
Returning with her sophomore album, One Million Love Songs, Viscius is now boldly taking on another one of the most complicated components of being human; love. Recorded in Asheville with production help from Alex Farrar, the album finds Bnny in confident forward motion as she learns to embrace everything that love throws at her.
Wrapped in Cellophane is the debut from Atlanta quartet Vessel who traffic in post-punk with some unexpectedly exotic flourishes and sparse bobbing hooks punctuated by Alex Tuisku's lyrics. The band’s sound is full of space, led by remarkably flexible rhythms and an unstoppable ability to find the ever shifting groove.
Fully Beat finds the melody-penchant quartet digging further into some of the classic shoegaze sounds and textures they explored so successfully on 2022’s Windowpane EP. Today the band is sharing “Beat,” a shimmering and subtle pop number that gives a great hint of what to expect when Fully Beat is released on May 24th.
After a five-year gap, the American rock band from Walla Walla arrives with a new studio album, Live Laugh Love. Recorded in three different sessions over a couple of years, the album marks the first time all four members sing, and they enjoy every second of it despite the ambivalent emotions they sing about.
With a weekend tour kicking off on Saturday, Dover, New Hampshire’s Tiny Wine are back at it. The duo of Chri Milton and Vertro Ubretl return four years after the release of the Archer EP with new single “Replace It,” a humming piece of lo-fi indie rock about hastily filling voids that aren’t ready to be filled.
While her previous releases showcased her arresting voice and undeniable spirit, they feel reserved in comparison to the new record. LATE SLAP is teeming with life, in all its joy, heaviness, and whimsy. It’s teeming with music: beautiful, uncanny layers of voice, a menagerie of synth tones, guitar jangles, tasteful strings and enthralling melodies.
Adrianne Lenker is one of contemporary American folk music’s poets in residence. Between her song writing in Big Thief and her solo project, she manages to create worlds that feel so familiar, but then intertwine them with transcendentalist romanticism, rendering these views slightly more esoteric and impalpable.
Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death are back at it again with Thirds, their new record, due out June 22nd. Written over what could be described as a strange few years for the world, the band’s corrosive structures are propulsive and delightfully off-kilter, but fully realized, the push and pull working in favor of their melodic core.
Mulva have released their debut album, Bitter Form, in which they seem both newly-transformed and yet more familiar than ever. It's just as startling and compelling of a new experience as you’d ultimately desire. It's about accessibility to themselves and to one another, being free to find a way to pull back or push forward.
