Divine Sweater - "Down Deep (A Nautical Apocalypse)" | Album Review
Divine Sweater are a terminally amiable Boston act taking the concept album to a more chilled out place. This is the end of the world on soft rock. We’re not necessarily dealing in the twisting emotional drama of Fleetwood Mac or the sleazy pop-soul cheese of Hall and Oates. More Modelo-on-the-boardwalk than spritzes-on-the-yacht.
Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlights
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Magic Fig - "Magic Fig"
Magic Fig’s self-titled album is an ever shifting kaleidoscope, the shapes all recognizable yet refracted in mirrored splendor. It’s a decidedly pop odyssey that wanders deep into the woods of late 60’s prog, Moog altered psych, and dream pop at its most visionary, a lysergic trip into an unknown cosmic past.
Las Nubes - "Pesada" | Post-Trash Premiere
After sharing “Endrados," "Drop-In," and “Would Be,” Las Nubes return with the veritable wrecking ball of “Pesada”. Fuzzy low-end and bright melodies recall both hometown heroes Torche as well as Tweak Bird, as Ale Campos and Emile Milgrim dig deep into the stoned core with a riff equal parts doom-soaked yet melodically syrupy.
Babehoven - "Water's Here In You" | Album Review
Maya Bon has shown herself to be adept at heart-wrenching emotions and expressing the hidden beauty in daily life in a manner thats wholesomely gripping. With Water's Here in You, Babehoven have managed to push beyond guitar based folk songs, incorporating a denser atmosphere that moves through pain into contemplative peace.
Malamiko - "All Pleasant Dreams" | Album Review
“Randomness Is Impossible”: Bill Orcutt on "Four Guitars Live" | Feature Interview
SPACED - "This Is All We Ever Get" | Album Review
Murf - "Nice Try" | Post-Trash Premiere
Minneapolis’ Murf provide an all out assault on the senses, their brand of hardcore tinged noise rock is splattered with gore and unsettling fury. Celebrating ten years together as a band, the quintet are set to release Already Dead on May 28th via Learning Curve Records, a howling and vicious record prone to dense thuds and swarming atonality.
A Giant Dog - "Bite" | Album Review
Bite is a sweeping sci-fi concept album about a virtual reality that promises blissful perfection that it can’t deliver on. The record uses those trappings to grapple with big topics – the perils of choosing your own reality, the inherent value of messy humanity in an artificially intelligent world, gender dysphoria – using equally big sounds.
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Gangrene — “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” | Album Review
Veteran rapper-producers Oh No and The Alchemist frequently use their work to peer at highbrow city life from its lowbrow, morally-gray margins — especially when they team up as Gangrene. Heads I Win, Tails You Lose comfortably expands on their keen eye for world-building. It’s tailor-made for peering into a back alley.
Wombo - "Slab EP" | Album Review
As an EP, Slab brings a lot to the table stylistically, weaving ethereal vocals with thunderous bass to create a sound that truly sets them apart from others within the genre. Wombo have an inate ability to create and maintain a creepy, ghost-like ambiance and energy that makes the EP stand out compared to some of their previous work.
Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlights
Sofia Bolt - " Vendredi Minuit" | Track-By-Track Feature
Sofia Bolt returns with her second full length, the gorgeous Vendredi Minuit. Out today via Born Losers Records, the Parisian born, Los Angeles based songwriter adds a multitude of depth to her oeuvre, blending together dreamy pop, orchestral psych, and soft lit yé-yé grooves. Bolt wrote in to give us the inside scoop on each of the songs.
Anna Altman - "Balloons" | Post-Trash Premiere
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: youbet - "Way To Be"
Way To Be carries more confidence while maintaining an atmosphere of creative pop melodies and rhythmic exploration. Nick Llobet's guitar work is fluid and breathtaking yet capable of veering into angry eruptions of distortion and fury, adding tension and a sense of chaos that plays well with the bursting intensity of the songwriting.
Climax Landers - "Zenith No Effects" | Album Review
Brooklyn band Climax Landers is back after six years with Zenith No Effects. The beloved group surveys each of their sensibilities to create an irreverent but invigorating record, a hot air balloon of an album, for its memorable cast of characters, big picture lyrics, windy gusts of riffs to get swept up in, and overall zaniness.
