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Curiosity Vs Expectation: A Conversation with SUMAC’s Aaron Turner

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.    

Still House Plants - "If I don​’​t make it, I love u" | Album Review

Still House Plants - "If I don​’​t make it, I love u" | Album Review

As eclectic and esoteric as their work might seem from an initial glance the best way to describe the mesh of shard-like guitars, rumbling drums, and gripping vocals that make up Still House Plants is direct. Their minimalist setup hides nothing from the listener. If I Don’t Make It, I Love U is an album as blunt and heartfelt as its title.

Sleater-Kinney - "Little Rope" | Album Review

Sleater-Kinney - "Little Rope" | Album Review

Little Rope, Sleater-Kinney's eleventh studio album, is bursting with energy, Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker using the record to deal with loss and grief and manage tragedy within their lives. The album is dynamic, aggressive, and most of all violently cathartic, ready to fight through whatever challenges may arise.

Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (June 3rd - June 9th)

Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (June 3rd - June 9th)

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

Pardoner - "Paranoid In Hell" | Album Review

Pardoner - "Paranoid In Hell" | Album Review

Pardoner are a rock band, they play rock music. On Paranoid in Hell, out now on Convulse Records, it takes just four short songs to prove this point. Transversing the plains of the rock landscape, these tunes ebb and flow, or more like jerk and jive, through tempos, volumes, and vibes to show they can do what other bands do, only better.

Tension Pets - "On The Outside" Video | Post-Trash Premiere

Tension Pets - "On The Outside" Video | Post-Trash Premiere

Chicago’s Tension Pets were made for these times, their sound a whirlwind of warped technicolor punk and hyperactive noise pop. The band arrived delightfully weird yet locked in on Cubey, earning an apt comparison to Brainiac or potentially The Rentals (after a prolonged acid trip), their debut a particular kind of synth friend brilliance.

Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlights

Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlights

A weekly post highlighting but a few of our favorite new releases in splendid alphabetical order, brief and (hopefully) informative. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think you should check out.

Interlay - "Medic" | Post-Trash Premiere

Interlay - "Medic" | Post-Trash Premiere

Chicago-based band, Interlay, has shared a new single today called “Medic,” offering the first sneak peak into their forthcoming EP, Hunting Jacket. With a guitar riff originally written a handful of years ago by Alexandria Ortgiesen, the song has since been fleshed out over the years, finding life within the band’s newest line up.

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Shop Regulars - "Shop Regulars"

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Shop Regulars - "Shop Regulars"

On Shop Regulars’ self-titled record, the musical project’s ethos is laid bare on the album cover for all to see. It’s a bold move. This move could backfire easily for many artists, but the music presented absolutely lives up to the ethos they announce. They project it with beautifully crunchy results.

Into the Woods: A Conversation with MIZU | Feature Interview

Into the Woods: A Conversation with MIZU | Feature Interview

MIZU excavates hidden feelings and lush, unknown gardens of sound in every aspect of her work. The ephemeral beauty of her cello is a guiding hand through the sonic and cerebral.After performing in Minneapolis earlier this month, MIZU took time to talk about classical music, continuity, freedom, performance, and The Music Man.

Marcel Wave - "Peg" | Post-Trash Premiere

Marcel Wave - "Peg" | Post-Trash Premiere

Marcel Wave understand the need for balance, a task that Maike Hale-Jones excels at. Their sound jitters beneath a deft combination of her sardonic and poetic spoken vocals and sweeping melodies that feel enormous by comparison. Featuring members of Sauna Youth and Cold Pumas, there’s a seasoned dexterity to their debut.

The Dracu-las - "Fall Asleep When I'm Dead" | Album Review

The Dracu-las - "Fall Asleep When I'm Dead" | Album Review

The mirthfully macabre album art on The Dracu-Las recent 7-inch that evokes both arterial and ocean sprays provides a warm invitation for a certain kind of listener to sit back and enjoy the show, and the tunes on Fall Asleep When I'm Dead ensure that once those listeners tune in, they won’t be turning the station. 

Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (May 27th - June 2nd)

Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (May 27th - June 2nd)

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

Mister Goblin - "Frog Poems" | Album Review

Mister Goblin - "Frog Poems" | Album Review

Frog Poems tracks the incomplete negotiations between childhood and adulthood that linger over time. Sam Goblin seems to be asking are there ways of revisiting the former without becoming entrapped by nostalgia? Neither life stage entirely subsumes the other with recollections of acquaintances, ambition, and crushes complicating any straightforward progression of life or time.

Jim White and Marisa Anderson - "Swallowtail" | Album Review

Jim White and Marisa Anderson - "Swallowtail" | Album Review

After taking some time off from touring, White met Anderson at the coastal town of Point Lonsdale, Victoria, on the southeast shores of Australia. This laid-back scenery pours into Swallowtail, a new set of improvised compositions where the musical possibilities between them merge with the infinite ebb and flow of the Pacific Ocean coast.

Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlight

Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlight

A weekly post highlighting but a few of our favorite new releases in splendid alphabetical order, brief and (hopefully) informative. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think you should check out.