Rolling Post-Punk Thread

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

There's a new Ought album out soon. Rather excited about that.

Yes, the "Beautiful Blue Sky" single is promising!

Also that Desperate Journalist record sounds really good - had it recommended by a friend who suggested Morrissey should appropriate their style for his solo stuff, getting Mozzy vibes from it.

Thanks for all the updates! Viet Cong has been at the top of a lot of post-punk lists all year and got a ton of publicity (negative mostly) for kerfuffles over their name. I like 'em fine but didn't think to mention 'em because of their relative ubiquity. I was a little late on the Algiers album, just heard it a few weeks back, and I like the soul/gospel vocal treatment over the dirgey post-punk (yeah, some early Birthday Party in there!), like a darker variation of early TVOTR.

Looking forward to these:

Grave Pleasures - Dreamcrash (Columbia) 4-Sep
The Libertines - Anthems For Doomed Youth (Harvest) 11-Sep - Heh. Could be terrible, who knows.
Ought - Sun Coming Down (Constellation) 18-Sep
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art) 9-Oct - https://protomartyr.bandcamp.com/album/the-agent-intellect
Wax Idols - American Tragic (Collect) 16-Oct

Hand Of Dust - Debut album coming out this fall from very promising Danish post-punkers with an extra dose of garage noir blues. Check out their previous EPs:
https://handofdust.bandcamp.com/album/walk-in-white
https://handofdust.bandcamp.com/album/without-grace-or-glory
https://handofdust.bandcamp.com/album/tape

Another Danish band I'm more on the fence about is Communions. Early Echo is good, but maybe too much 90s Verve, Stone Roses in there for my comfort.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0R8TAmoXJnoB6ro5cp1XdI
https://soundcloud.com/poshisolation/communions-cobblestones
https://soundcloud.com/tough-love/communions-so-long-sun-1
https://youtu.be/xSM5Tre3lzY
https://youtu.be/FQN7uacxnQY

This has been making rounds on Facebook of all places, Nervous Curtains - Devastator, sounds very post-punk funk, upcoming album produced by Daron Beck of Pinkish Black. They're right in EZ's backyard so he might know more...

https://m.soundcloud.com/nervous-curtains/devastator

Re-issue of Sound side-project Second Layer, including EPs, but vinyl only, bastards - http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/dark-entries/second-layer-world-of-rubber-2xlp/#tab-description

Yeah, at least give me a digital-only option!

Speaking of vinyl/digital....

Mail order for the two Sunday Painters is open, and the records should go out in the next week or so. Street date of August 28.

Something To Do, originally released 1982 in a run of 500 copies. Now 1000 copies, with a download card that includes the Any Port in a Storm live tape

4th Annual Report, originally released 1985 in a run of 250 copies. Now 1000 copies, with a download card that includes a live, radio show from '82.

Out back in January, was the singles comp LP, In My Dreams, whose tracks are up on YouTube. 500 copies then. 500 more now.

http://whatsyourrupture.bigcartel.com

There's some new audio up on Soundcloud, to the gothy side of their many sounds:

https://soundcloud.com/krazypunx/sunday-painters-something-to-do

https://soundcloud.com/krazypunx/sunday-painters-shattered-lens

Dark Entries make me sad by doing deluxe vinyl-only reissues of things I'd very much buy a legit digital/CD issue of, or even a cheaper vinyl to get shelved immediately while I listen to the music by, uhh, other means.

Though looking at their site maybe it's shipping to the UK which is the main expense when I sigh over their reissues costing £20+ at UK distributors, and I realise the vinyl-only thing must make business sense and I'm basically weird in preferring CDs over vinyl and not really wanting any more physical stuff anyway.

CD's are gross.

Dark Entries usually does very stripped-down vinyl releases with only minimal inserts. Not particularly deluxe! I mean, this recent Second Layer reissue is a double LP for $24.99 in the US, which is pretty good. To get to that price, there's no gatefold, and the insert is a double-sided page. But I see that the Amazon UK price is (converted to dollars) $32. Maybe they need to strike a better distro deal with somebody....Though we get hit pretty hard over here with small-run UK reissues too.

There was a CD for the BART comps, and Josh is hardly some sort of analog purist (and he's well aware of the flaws of vinyl), but I've never asked him about why he doesn't do downloads. It would be nice. Like many people doing reissues, we found it a great way to include interesting material of lesser fidelity. Most pressing plants will support downloads for not too much extra.

With both collector and reissue vinyl being expensive, most music obsessives I know understand the value of a bargain-bin CD. It's often what I find myself buying at record fairs these days....

cds are beautiful

This comes out Friday:

The Underground Youth - Haunted (Fuzz Club)
http://fuzzclub.com/products/pre-order-the-underground-youth-haunted-1
https://youtu.be/DEyjufTCwnM

https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/haunted

Also out tomorrow, Grave Pleasures - Dreamcrash. At least in Europe. I thought all release dates were supposed to be consolidated, but this is a throwback to releasing in the U.S. for either 9/18 or October. Pre-orders are not available at non-import prices, the three YouTube singles can't even be played in the U.S. Ridiculous. I got ahold of a leak and was surprised to hear Matt McNerney (who's other band, Hexvessel, just signed to Century Media) sounding like Ian McCulloch of Echo & The Bunnymen. With members of The Oath, In Solitude and Oranssi Pazuzu, it's interesting to hear them getting not heavier, but more pop, along the lines of Love-era The Cult and similar era Siouxsie. There's still darkness anchored in Joy Division, while maintaining brisk tempos along the lines of Bunnymen's Crocodiles or even the first Editors album. Death rock? Naw, it's poppy psychedelic post-punk, and it's really good!

https://youtu.be/FOPTBAM60SY?list=PLgvWw_0NgAxSqwm7D-mJNZ9nejk7de185

Fastnbulbous, Australian post-punk band Gold Class are releasing their debut album this week, September 4th - that should be right up your street

Stark, brooding and brilliant Gold Class give their debut It’s You the Midas touch
http://hhhhappy.com/stark-brooding-and-brilliant-gold-class-give-their-debut-its-you-the-midas-touch/

Stream Gold Class It’s You (Stereogum Premiere)
http://www.stereogum.com/1827249/stream-gold-class-its-you-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

On their debut album It’s You, Australia’s Gold Class plays like a brilliant post-punk compendium — the jagged yet chiming guitars of Jawbox and Fugazi, the lockstep rhythm section and dreary climes of Gang Of Four and Joy Division, a quavering bellow that bridges the gap between Morrissey and Glenn Danzig. You could throw dozens more references out and most of them would fit; these guys seem to have swallowed up an entire genre’s worth of history and ended up titans of the form.

Gold Class - It's You (Album Stream)
https://soundcloud.com/felte/sets/gold-class-its-you-album-stream
Gold Class’ debut album 'It’s You' will be released via felte (US/UK) & Spunk Records (AUS/NZ)

check the track perverts - the vocalist sounding like Morrissey joining a harsh post-punk band

bandcamp
http://goldclass.bandcamp.com/album/its-you

good news, the album has join gone live on Spotify UK.

Thanks, I've been following them, but wouldn't have known about it until Bandcamp sends an email today. They should send a heads-up sooner!

Lunch - Let Us Have Madness Openly

I was skeptical based on the band's name, the album title, and their promo video (not the one below), but this is quickly becoming a favorite. Label describes them as a mix of Gun Club and Echo and the Bunnymen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW_D1crNksM

https://lunchpdx.bandcamp.com/track/bad-cut