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Mid-Year Post-Punk Rundown: Grave Pleasures, Algiers, Ought, Lunch + Morehttp://fastnbulbous.com/mid-year-post-punk-rundown-grave-pleasures-algiers-ought-lunch-more/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/75r8HcPBNdBhzRBvPQIZTQ
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
this album is rad: http://soundcloud.com/habitualnourishment/sets/positive-energy
― alpine static, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
new track from Danish post-punk band Lower
Lower - At the Endless Partyhttps://open.spotify.com/track/5ZBGuFoTEc6Yh800KypuHH
this track sounds very 80s - like some aural mix of: Wah (Pete Wylie) / New Model Army / Morrissey / The Jam / The Clash
from the new epI'm a Lazy Son... But I'm the Only Sonhttps://rateyourmusic.com/release/ep/lower/im_a_lazy_son____but_im_the_only_son/
― djmartian, Sunday, 20 September 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
Coolies (New Zealand) on Feeding Tube, and Negative Scanner. Too lazy to see if those have been mentioned above.
― Michael Train, Sunday, 20 September 2015 23:16 (nine years ago) link
Talk about waiting last-minute to announce a release! I'd been looking for news on the Hand Of Dust for months, I didn't even know a title, and now it's coming out next week, Oct 5!
Hand Of Dust - Like Breath Beneath A Veil (Avant!)http://www.post-punk.com/hand-of-dust-encased-in-amber-song-premiere/
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
― Michael Train, Sunday, 20 September 2015 23:16 (2 weeks ago)
Sweeeeeeet, new Coolies.
Also from NZ: new album from Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing, Scrying In Infirmary Architecture. This Heat/Pere Ubu-ish (+ NZ stuff like Skeptics, and with Coil worldview if not sonics) w/mixed vox; their last two, 2011's Tangiwai & 2013's Eeling, are worth checking out.
― etc, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
https://nervouscurtains.bandcamp.com/
New album Con is sounding totally rad rn
― cortez the sissy (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 11 October 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
Wonder if I should give Ava Luna another shot (Gang of 4 with some Dirty Projectors mix on first listen)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 October 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
I was set to see them Sunday, but Protomartyr just cancelled their tour due to another family death.
http://fastnbulbous.com/post-punkgarage-noir-protomartyr-hand-of-dust-kill-west/
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 23 October 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
Sorry about their family death(s), but am kinda underwhelmed by Protomartyr (who recently got a favorable Washington Post writeup in addition to yours). They sound like they learned post-punk and some early 80s punk in music school, and the singer's voice doesn't do too much for me.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 November 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
Hopping on the love for Shopping. I saw them last week warming up for Shannon and the Clams and they blew me away. Great songs, playing and stage presence, super fun.
― Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Monday, 2 November 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I just realized Shopping had a new album when I did a post-punk search on RYM last night! Nice surprise.
xp: Re Protomartyr, I can see both sides but the hyperbolic praise (check out the slavering reviews on Sound Opinions (http://soundopinions.org/show/518) where they say the album is like a timeless classic was a bit much. I'm in the middle -- I do find his vocals underwhelming, and Casey is self-deprecating about them, describing them as "being yelled at by a fat guy." But the band and lyrics are top notch.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 2 November 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
I like them, but to my ear they sound a like a more polished version of either Disappears or the Ponys from Chicago.
― ive reddit all your posts and I want a crowdfund (dan m), Monday, 2 November 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
Anything else we should check out from this year? This one I kept forgetting about until last week, and I like it pretty well:
Publicist UK - Forgive Yourself (Relapse)https://publicistuk.bandcamp.com/
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 28 November 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
I kind of feel like maybe the Zun Zun Egui album might deserve some coverage here...I really like it, anyways:
https://youtu.be/XpRiNV_DwWw
― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 28 November 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
check out this album:
Cold Showers - Matter of Choicehttp://thequietus.com/articles/18521-cold-showers-matter-of-choice-review
― djmartian, Saturday, 28 November 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
Also:
Heat Dust - Heat Dusthttps://theflenser.bandcamp.com/album/heat-dust
and. Vision Fortune - Country Music, which isn't on bandcamp but is very post punk
― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 4 December 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
I need to listen to that Cold Showers more -- I really liked their first one but didn't warm to this one immediately. Also should probably listen to the new Soft Moon again since seeing it show up in the Quietus EOY. I wrote it off after one listen but I did love their first one though not the second.
Other somewhat post-punky stuff I've been enjoying this year that I don't think has been mentioned:
Flesh World - The Wild Animals in My Lifehttps://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/the-wild-animals-in-my-life-lp-lungs-064
Girls Names - Arms Around a Vision (and Zero Triptych single)https://soundcloud.com/tough-love/girls-names-a-hunger-artisthttps://soundcloud.com/tough-love/girls-names-zero-triptych
Cold Beat - Into the Airhttps://soundcloud.com/cold-beat-2/outrunning-shadows
― early rejecter, Friday, 4 December 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
Oh, and:
Glue - Ritual demo EPhttps://gluejesuschrist.bandcamp.com/releases
― early rejecter, Friday, 4 December 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
Great stuff everyone, thanks! The only ones I'd heard already are Vision Fortune (did not seem post-punk to me). I didn't realize Girls Names had a new one, thanks. I really love Cold Showers, hits the spot where the New Order and Colder albums fail. I like Heat Dust, makes me think of a murkier Protomartyr, while someone else said The Flenser's version of Iceage.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 5 December 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
i saw Heat Dust live and they were awesome...made me appreciate the album much, much more
― alpine static, Sunday, 6 December 2015 10:34 (eight years ago) link
Aside from Savages - Adore Life, which is solid but not earthshaking, not much going on yet.
I was really excited for this, which came out last week:
And Also The Trees - Born Into The Waves
It's pretty subdued, so is taking a while to get a handle on.
Also out last week, this album is more garage noir and art rock, but definitely has post-punk elements, and is by far the best of the year for me of any genre so far:
The Drones - Feelin Kinda Free
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
def wanna check out the drones album
― dc, Thursday, 24 March 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link
Many of you are familiar with San Francisco band The Sleepers - Painless Nights (1981) which was reissued on Superior Viaduct a few years back. I'm still waiting to be able to buy FLAC files of that. So vocalist Ricky Williams joined up with Negative Trend's Craig Gray in Toiling Midgets. Andrew Earles' book Gimme Indie Rock included both the Sleepers and the latter's Sea Of Unrest (1982). Highly recommended experimental post-punk, a flip side of Flipper perhaps. They started making their stuff available on Bandcamp lately. Williams OD'd in 1992 and Mark Eitzel actually filled in on vocals for a bit.
https://toilingmidgets.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-unrest
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
Before anyone says anything, I know that Boomkat has the FLAC here. I guess the exchange rate is better now, so I'll finally pull the trigger: https://boomkat.com/products/painless-nights
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 16:11 (eight years ago) link
couple years old but this reminds me of essential logic's more fanciful moments
https://soundcloud.com/pete-heywoode/peluche-ohio
― maura, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
Spectres - Utopia (Sabotage) - Many bands with this name, this one from Vancouver, third album was out on vinyl previously, out today on Bandcamp.https://spectresvancouver.bandcamp.com/album/utopia
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
A bit late to the party, but the Ought album from last year has continued to grow on me.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
is this the thread i can talk about BLURT
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 18:49 (eight years ago) link
Or at least honk if you like Blurt
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
The Foster Body album (Moving Display) is pretty great. Sounds at times like God and the State.
Salt Lake City art-punk.
https://fosterbody.bandcamp.com/track/touching-moving
― Michael Train, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 04:00 (eight years ago) link
Man I love that Sleepers album. I always wondered if Ricky Williams was an influence on Craig Wedren of Shudder to Think - such unique voices, both of them. Will check out this Toiling Midgets now - thank you.
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 05:46 (eight years ago) link
Drangsal - Harieschaim - I heard this when it came out in April on Spotify but forgot about it because I haven't been able to buy it for a sane price yet. Fairly catchy and melodic, keyboards but also nice guitar playing from this new German band.https://open.spotify.com/album/6j7RS60COoYoFy0PXj3aBc
Eagulls - Ullages - Second album from Leeds band. I liked but didn't love their self-titled 2014 debut. This one is a bit darker, lots of Cure, Chameleons, Comsat Angels influence. http://www.partisanrecords.com/artists/eagulls/
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 14 May 2016 00:20 (eight years ago) link
New Lola Colt single. I'm more excited for Twist Through The Fire Jul 1 than anything right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_s2nakjoNw
Also mentioned in the reissue thread, there's a new Blue Orchids album coming via Pledge Music (77 days left), The Once And Future Thing. There's also a double live CD, Martin Bramah reissue and compilation LP on offer. For those of you who don't know, Bramah was an original member of The Fall, and they carved a nice little psychedelic post-punk niche for themselves on some early 80s singles and The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain) (1982). Spread the word, this is only at 33% of goal!
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/blueorchids
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 15 May 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link
Male Gaze - King Leer (Castle Face)http://fastnbulbous.com/male-gaze-king-leer/Preoccupations - Preoccupations (Jagjaguwar) - Former Viet CongThe Lucid Dream - Compulsion Songs (Holy How Are You)VUM - Cryptocrystalline (Secret Lodge)Traitrs - Rites & Ritual (Pleasance)http://www.pleasencerecords.com/releases/Rites%20and%20RitualThe Monochrome Set - Cosmonaut (Tapete)Moscow Circus - Resounding (Echolocation)Merchandise - A Corpse Wired For Sound (4AD)
Motorama - Dialogues (Talitres) - Russian post-punk, early Chameleons, Felt, Joy D, Oct 21http://shop.talitres.com/products/576739-dialogues
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 30 September 2016 21:42 (eight years ago) link
Has this site been mentioned/linked here? Awesome:
http://fytini.com/filtig/ppodd_cake/index/show/char:A
― Why shout alone at your TV when you can shout at the world on ILX (Dan Peterson), Friday, 30 September 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
^that's fucking cool, thank you!
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Saturday, 1 October 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
Nice 1979 post punk from Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xle4KXGwGlk
― Institute for Secular Eschatology (Sanpaku), Sunday, 2 October 2016 00:51 (eight years ago) link
http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-16/#breakdown
A special expanded list just for you guys:
01. Wovenhand – Star Treatment02. Savages – Adore Life03. Male Gaze – King Leer04. And Also The Trees – Born Into The Waves05. The Eternals – Espiritu Zombi06. Preoccupations – Preoccupations07. Suns Of Thyme – Cascades08. Melt Yourself Down – Last Evenings On Earth09. Marching Church – Telling It Like It Is10. VUM – Cryptocrystalline11. Jenny Besetzt – Tender Madness12. VHS – Gift Of Life13. Las Kellies – Friends And Lovers14. Traitrs – Rites & Ritual15. Eagulls – Ullages16. Motorama – Dialogues17. Bonfire Nights – Entopica Phenomica18. Virus – Memento Collider19. RA – Then I Woke Up In Paradise EP20. Mall Walk – Funny Papers21. The Gotobeds – Blood // Sugar // Secs // Traffic22. Ukandanz – Awo23. Flasher – Flasher EP24. Young Docteurs – Beginning At The End25. E – E26. Teksti-TV 666 – 1,2,327. Suuns – Hold/Still28. Esben And The Witch – Older Terrors29. Spoilers – Anti Vibe30. Spectres – Utopia31. DIIV – Is The Is Are32. Merchandise – A Corpse Wired For Sound33. FEWS – Means34. Drangsal – Harieschaim35. The Monochrome Set – Cosmonaut36. Moscow Circus – Resounding37. White Lies – Friends38. Omni – Deluxe39. The Hecks – The Hecks40. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkeybirds – La Arana Es La Vida41. Masquerade – Ritual42. Pill – Convenience43. Muscle And Marrow – Love44. New Model Army – Winter45. Koban – Abject Obsessions46. Exploded View – Exploded View47. The KVB – Of Desire48. Terminal Gods – Wave / Form49. Alaric – End Of Mirrors50. Eliot Sumner – Information
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 12 December 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/0uQ6AdNa6ABcBSdzwh4sy8
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 12 December 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
I like that Marching Church album. Much better than the firt one. This Soft Kill album is nice too.
― Dinsdale, Monday, 12 December 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Holy crap, there was a Las Kellies album out this year???
Also very curious abput the Kid Congo album. Doing God's work, FnB.
― sushi and the banh mis (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 19 December 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
A couple more:
Harry Howard and the NDE - Sleepless Girlshttps://harryhowardandthende.bandcamp.com/
Kim Salmon - My Scripthttps://kimsalmon.bandcamp.com/album/my-script
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 05:59 (seven years ago) link
Harry Howard toured and wrote with the Birthday Party, Crime & the City Solution and These Immortal Souls. Rowland S. was his brother. Kim Salmon is from The Scientists and Beasts Of Bourbon.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
i may wind up having to nom that glintshake record for eoy myself. also good is the vnutrennee sgoranie as far as eastern post-punk goes.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 16:36 (seven years ago) link
oh, and the last decorum single, "near gone", that's probably going to go on my "songs" ballot.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
I really like that Vnutrennee Sgoranie album from this year.
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
Yeah this is great. Rough translations of the title and songs:
ГШ (Glintshake) - ОЭЩ МАГЗИУ (Sez Store)https://glintshake.bandcamp.com/album/-
1 - Sculpture2 - Shadow3 - My New Style4 - Squalor5 - Hands - A Former Leg6 - Poluchelovek7 - A Quarter To Five8 - Be Human9 - Phoenix
Vnutrennee Sgoranie Sebyaboyaznhttps://sgoranie.bandcamp.com/album/sebyaboyazn-2
1 - Extremes2 - Mr.3 - Intelligent Corpse4 - Cutting Off Excess5 - I'm On This Earth6 - It's Over All (Nothing's Sacred)7 - I Bitch Jesus8 - Orange Splendor Lesov9 - Girl and The Echo10 - Podlicom11 - We12 - Not Yet
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 26 December 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
That Vnutrennee Sgoranie is pretty interesting. Thanks. More expansive arrangements than a typical post-punk band (horns, etc.). Some tracks remind me of Tzadik-released klezmer-punk stuff like Leonid Soybelman, or other horn-y punks like Dog-Faced Hermans or God is My Co-Pilot. I'm definitely picking this one up (the price is right too).
― o. nate, Thursday, 5 January 2017 02:20 (seven years ago) link
Random googling of Soybelman-related product led me to this, which I think I need in my life:
https://youtu.be/gANuerKFv9U
― o. nate, Thursday, 5 January 2017 02:51 (seven years ago) link