Rolling Post-Punk Thread

Yeah it's great, but that came out March 2013.

true tho the US version was 2014

Girl Band are notably absent from this 2014 roundup. "Lawman" was IMO the best post-punk single this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxe3NZKYL0

The new Dreamsalon, Iceage, Miami Dolphins, Institute

Thanks! I include EPs, but so far Girl Band only had singles this year. I thought Desperate Journalist would have an album this year, but they also just did a single.

Dreamsalon - Soft Stab
https://dreamsalon.bandcamp.com/

The Miami Dolphins - Becky
https://themiamidolphins.bandcamp.com/album/becky

Institute - Salt EP
http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr119-institute-salt-ep

Universe People - Are Coming To The Dance - Promising trio from Seattle, a bit of Liliput & Sleater-Kinney influence.
https://universepeople-bonjour.bandcamp.com/

Stiu nu Stiu - ULTRA SILVAM; mentioned an early song or two from these guys upthread, and their first full album has sneakily become an underdog favorite this year. Swedish band playing a kind of heavy post-punk not totally unlike Beastmilk (and Kurt Ballou mixed this too) but incorporating more doom influence.

https://stiunustiu.bandcamp.com/album/ultra-silvam

more mopey and atmospheric than Beastmilk too

really digging the new albums from hozac alumni population & schonwald, seem to fit in here

https://population.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-pale
https://anywave.bandcamp.com/album/dream-for-the-fall

Thanks for turning me onto Makthaverskan II, guys. They're not nearly as "anti"-pop as they protest, but that's fine. Makes me think of The Clean and John Cale's song "Ski Patrol," although with wailing young vocals and ready elbows.

Interesting, who has been mentioning Stiu nu Stiu as favorites? This is the first time I've seen them mentioned, and I regularly scour the blogs. I checked again and saw I missed this review in June - http://echoesanddust.com/2014/06/stiu-nu-stiu-ultra-silvam/

that was me, and yeah they don't seem to have gotten much coverage yet; I only discovered them at the end of last year when on a whim I tried to catalog all of Kurt Ballou's 2013 production and mixing work.

that review is pretty positive! it doesn't even mention post-punk and while I definitely hear that I agree it is reductive as there are post rock, drone, metal and even dream pop influences too

funnily enough I just discovered that at the bottom of the "reviews" page on their official site they link to the ILM rolling metal thread where I singled them out for special mention when I posted the results of my 2013 Ballou cataloging:

http://www.stiunustiu.com/reviews

I really didn't get into their performance at a street fest last summer, so it took me a while to warm back up to the Protomartyr album but I'm liking it much more finally.

Spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/4GTF8gNmhHxRSOmKHuzFRL

Been looking forward to this.

Desperate Journalist - Desperate Journalist (Fierce Panda) Jan 26

http://www.backseatmafia.com/2015/01/07/album-launch-desperate-journalist-launch-debut-lp/

I did this a month ago but neglected to post my post-punk genre year-end list here:

Post-Punk 2014
Spotify Playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/4GTF8gNmhHxRSOmKHuzFRL

Dark Blue – Pure Reality (Jade Tree) | Bandcamp
The New Christs – Incantations (Impedance) | Bandcamp
The Gotobeds – Poor People Are Revolting (12XU) | Bandcamp
The Estranged – The Estranged (Sabotage/Dirtnap) | Bandcamp
Protomartyr – Under Cover Of Official Right (Hardly Art) | Bandcamp
Interpol – El Pintor (Matador)
Total Control – Typical System (Iron Lung) | Bandcamp
Ought – More Than Any Other Day (Constellation) | Bandcamp
Ştiu Nu Ştiu – Ultra Silvam (EDILS) | Bandcamp
Mode Moderne – Occult Delight (Light Organ) | Bandcamp
Post War Glamour Girls – Pink Fur (HSR) | Bandcamp
Iceage – Plowing Into the Field of Love (Matador)
Lower – Seek Warmer Climes (Matador) | Buy
Merchandise – After The End (4AD)
Have A Nice Life – The Unnatural World (Enemies List) | Bandcamp
Schonwald – Dream For The Fall (Anywave) | Bandcamp
Population – Beyond The Pale (Mass Media) | Bandcamp
Eagulls – Eagulls (Partisan)
Rat Columns – Leaf (R.I.P. Society) | Bandcamp
The Blue Angel Lounge – A Sea Of Trees (8MM)
Nicole Sabouné – Must Exist (Roxy)
Esben And The Witch – A New Nature (Nostromo) | Bandcamp
Universe People – Are Coming To The Dance (Dragnet) | Bandcamp
Cult Of Youth – Final Days (Sacred Bones)
Dekoder – Flowers To Blossom (Chaos Rules) | Bandcamp
Cosmic Thoughts – Cosmic Thoughts (Cosmic Thoughts) | Bandcamp
Dreamsalon – Soft Stab (Dragnet) | Bandcamp
The Miami Dolphins – Becky (FPE Records) | Bandcamp
Institute – Salt EP (Sacred Bones)
Low Life – Dogging (R.I.P. Society)
Creative Adult – Psychic Mess (Run For Cover)
Cheveu – BUM (Born Bad) | Bandcamp
The Nightingales – For Fuck’s Sake (Nightingales) | Buy

picked up the desperate journalist lp digitally a couple of months ago, it's excellent

the rat columns album you mention is really great, quite all over the place musically in some ways, even jangly pop in parts

I haven't found anything from that Desperate Journalist album yet, weird.

Album from French one-man band was available last year but is reissued on vinyl this year:

Jessica 93 - Rise (Teenage Menopause)
https://teenagemenopause.bandcamp.com/album/rise

Just discovered Lusts today. "Temptation" is especially grebt.

https://soundcloud.com/lustsmusic/temptation

This is probably the best place to ask. I'm looking for more good crazy, kind of wacky, conceptual new wave albums? I'm thinking stuff in the vein of Kid Creole's 'Tropical Gangsters', B-52s' 'Mesopotamia', Ze Records type things, Oingo Boingo, Devo, Pere Ubu's 'Dub Housing'? Looking for arty/off-the-wall/cartoonish especially.

Modern Romance - Everybody Salsa/Can You Move/Queen of the Rapping Scene?

not heard those, so i will check!

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/

Wovenhand, The Sea Kings and Lola Colt on my ballot, all with some post-punk elements, got no votes from anyone else. However some others did pretty well:

20 Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal
36 Protomartyr, Under Color of Official Right
64 Pharmakon, Bestial Burden
79 Total Control, Typical System
90 Warpaint, Warpaint
99 Shellac, Dude Incredible
111 Iceage, Plowing Into the Field of Love
122 Merchandise, After the End
133 Sleaford Mods, Divide and Exit
140 Ought, More Than Any Other Day
151 The Horrors, Luminous
183 Godflesh, A World Lit Only By Fire
215 Eagulls, Eagulls
218 The Both, The Both
224 Bitchin Bajas, Bitchin Bajas
231 The Gotobeds, Poor People Are Revolting
231 Liars, Mess
297 Interpol, El Pintor

Man I forgot how much I liked that Parquet Courts album.

I've been obsessed with Certain General & Band Of Outsiders. Having a hell of a time tracking down CDs or lossless. One guy online has a 23 track "special edition" of this:

Certain General - November's Heat 1984

As far as I can tell though, that version never existed. A French 1990 reissue had 5 completely different bonus tracks:

12 Johnny
13 Strippin' The Blues
14 Uptight (Groove Version)
15 Nowhere
16 That's Where I Hang (Live Version)

Whereas this guy has these:

12 Hello My God
13 Kill And Take
14 Desert
15 Certain General Theme
16 Red Ledge
17 Fly Me To Berlin
18 Service
19 Dachau Now
20 Sellout
21 Trench
22 At Peace
23 Leader Out

I would totally buy that if someone reissued it!

I used to have Certain General's "Signals From The Source" but it never did anything for me and sold it and never bothered to hunt down "November's Heat" which is supposed to be their best.

Yes, they changed a bit after the first album. It's on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/28jthAZ3swXzQXE8niWZQj

http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=certain_general

Out today:

Desperate Journalist - Desperate Journalist (Fierce Panda)
http://www.fiercepanda.co.uk/shop.php?release=465
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/18598/reviews/4148635
http://thequietus.com/articles/17072-desperate-journalist-desperate-journalist-review

^my fave record of the last 6 months

I thought one of Certain General who turned up on the Wildweed yahoo Gun Club list about 10 years ago had compiled a 2cd set sometime back then which was available at the time.
I saw them at Alice in Wonderland back in the early 80s and enjoyed them . I think it was AiW anyway pretty sure it was that venue.

Nite Fields - Depersonalisation (felte)
https://nitefields.bandcamp.com/album/depersonalisation-2

Motorama - Poverty (Talitres) - Russian band on a French label, I've been enjoying this for the past month, and just became available on Spotify yesterday.
https://talitres.bandcamp.com/album/poverty
https://play.spotify.com/album/1NlRSDgmMTMYk1zoOtD4Gq

RA - Scandinavia (Adrian) - Swedish band self-described as "Nordic noir-punk," yas! Still looking for a way to purchase lossless or a CD.
http://shop.adrianrecordings.com/product/ra-scandinavia-vinyl-album
http://play.spotify.com/artist/26XS4hmEAbEm3nmWCIOIDa

I've been pre-occupied with the nightmarish process of moving (selling, buying, closings) and feel a bit out of the loop so please help and include anything I'm missing!

Also, Johan Snell left Beastmilk (who had also gained a member in Linnéa Olsson from The Oath), and they are renamed Grave Pleasures, with a new album coming out this year.
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/beastmilk-parts-ways-with-guitarist-johan-goatspeed-snell-changes-name-to-grave-pleasures/

Street Eaters have their moments:

http://streeteaters.com/track/blood-muscles-bones

Catching up with some short reviews of a few mentioned above, and these. Especially love the Male Gaze, though it's way too short!

Male Gaze – Gale Maze (Castle Face)
LoneLady – Hinterland (Warp)
zZz – Juggernaut (Excelsior)
Rule Of Thirds – Rule Of Thirds (Mass Media)

http://fastnbulbous.com/early-2015-postpunk-rundown/

Also RA finally got on Bandcamp - https://ramalmo.bandcamp.com/album/scandinavia

Marching Church – This World Is Not Enough (Sacred Bones) - Forgot to mention this. Features members of both Iceage and Lower.
http://marchingchurch.bandcamp.com/album/this-world-is-not-enough

Soko – My Dreams Dictate My Reality (Babycat) - Solo French singer/actor had folky debut 7 yrs ago, discovers The Cure, lol.

More on Grave Pleasures: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/grave-pleasures-signs-with-sony-prepares-to-record-new-album/

Major label release in September, interesting. They've become quite the supergroup, with members of The Oath, In Solitude, Hexvessel and Oranssi Pazuzu!

Bizarre. Also I hope this doesn't break up Oranssi Pazuzu; we've already lost In Solitude!

Ceremony - The L-Shaped Man (Matador)
http://fastnbulbous.com/ceremony-the-l-shaped-man/

They played at 924 Gilman in Berkeley earlier this week, anyone see 'em?

City Calm Down - Rabbit Run
https://soundcloud.com/iohyouparty/city-calm-down-rabbit-run

new track, Rabbit Run from Melbourne's impressive, City Calm Down

sounds like a vintage Echo & the Bunnymen track

'Rabbit Run' is the first single to be lifted off City Calm Down's highly anticipated debut album 'In A Restless House', which will be released via I OH YOU on the 11th of September, 2015.

every track they have released so far has been high quality, so follow on spotify.

https://nakedlights.bandcamp.com/album/on-nature

i think they just broke up and played their last gig a couple weeks ago

Was just emailing one of them a few days ago on facebook...didn't sound like they've broken up.

Lower - At The Endless Party

Any updates on the "Now That's What I Call DIY" comp? Our man Dan is writing the liner notes, but I heard there's a legal issue delaying it?

Liner notes is a reprint of an article I wrote. Legal issue had to do with the title, I think he had to make new artwork? Not sure what the timing is, will let Stirmonster show up with the answers.

The Viet Cong record is very post-punk and my favorite album of the year. in fact, I can't think of the last album that I played this much.

Saw them live a couple months back too and they were great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW1kP99mok4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdMz7BUtOvk

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet.

dubby post-punk

Cured Pink - (I'm) Swimming
https://soundcloud.com/ripsociety/cured-pink-im-swimming

RIP049. Cured Pink - As A Four Piece Band LP
Out July 31, 2015.

As A Four Piece Band
by Cured Pink
https://curedpink.bandcamp.com/album/as-a-four-piece-band

check back for new tracks

Shout out for the Algiers record - there's definitely a bit of the Birthday Party in their genes, but much else besides