Rolling Post-Punk Thread

i like it

the nihilism of Pissed Jeans meets the rigid abandon and sardonic lyrics of Mclusky.

lol this better deliver cause that's total catnip to me

it's very mclusky

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

great video starring their bass player

ok yes I like this very much

Told ya!

I hear a bit of Girl Band in there as well...

In case it's relevant, and in case anybody who'd want it doesn't already have it, the '1981' post-punk box set I did here on ILM back in '04-'05 is up in full for download (9 themed mixes totalling 230 or so tracks, plus another "bonus" collection of 290 tracks, roughly 28 hours) for a limited time.

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/post-punk-1981-complete-collection-including-the-briefcase/

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/1981_all-mixes_animated-gif_reversed_large.gif?w=936

Simon, you think that the Idles would fit in rolling metal?
I do, but that's because I always assume that as a metalhead anything I like is metal.
(Well, maybe not everything, but you know...)

Wall
Untitled
(Wharf Cat Records)
Release Date: 4/28/2017
Formats: CD/LP/Digi

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/512ec1a7e4b08130491d3482/512ec1a7e4b08130491d348e/58a5d33eff7c50c87f2db0e7/1487262538023/WCR069+WALL+UNTITLED+COVER+FRONT.jpg?format=500w

http://open.spotify.com/album/4Ufl5qNKBfh2BsgNvUP5O8
http://wharfcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/untitled

This is the debut and also last full-length album from the NYC band who broke up several months before the release of Untitled. Although I am "the metal guy" at The Agit Reader, I reviewed the album...

New York has changed a lot since the halcyon days of No Wave, but Wall isn’t having it. The band wears its influences like a badge of honor, rekindling memories of the city before CBGB was an overpriced clothes boutique, when Alphabet City was a genuinely scary place, and when the heartbeat of the city pumped blood through innovative artists rather than price them out,

This is pretty good. I guess it's noise psych, but feels pretty post-punk to me:

The Gluts - Estasi
https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/estasi

Looking forward to this:

Algiers - The Underside Of Power (Matador) June 23

It doesn't seem Sneaks has been mentioned. One gal and a drum machine. I checked out some other songs I didn't like as well as this one, but for 1:56 she really nails the ultra-minimalist vibe of Oh-OK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rinFWMZUGE&feature=share

Dammit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rinFWMZUGE&t=1s

You can hear it here: https://www.mergerecords.com/sneaks-drops-sparse-groove-%E2%80%9Chair-slick-back%E2%80%9D-from-it%E2%80%99s-a-myth

I like Sneaks. Didn't realize they have a new one already.

feeling like clearance (from chicago) should be here. does anybody like them?

sounds a lot like the embarrassment !

https://clearance.bandcamp.com/

Embarrassment? First track I heard was "No Glance You Took" from their last album, and it was 100% Pavement. Basically a Pavement tribute band. "Owner/Operator" from the last single is an improvement, some nice jangly guitar work. It gives me hope for their next album.

i heard the 7" first and liked it.

then i checked out the album and found that it sounds very different and not nearly as good.

i don't like pavement and consequently don't listen to them very often. re-listening to "death travels west" rn and maybe the embarrassment isn't the best comparison? idk i just like that 7"

I really like the songs for the upcoming Chai Khat album:
https://youtu.be/hM5WbNzRUCI
https://youtu.be/Ztbf7yLkilI

Their 2013 EP: https://chaikhat.bandcamp.com/album/ghosts-in-the-void-ep

Mode Moderne have been releasing a single every month that are pretty great:
https://modemoderne.bandcamp.com/track/yours-truly
https://modemoderne.bandcamp.com/track/dazzling-dreams-2
https://modemoderne.bandcamp.com/track/moderne-love-2
https://modemoderne.bandcamp.com/track/doomy-daydream

crack open a room temperature Hansen's and get into these flat-style worms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISN3oz_94bE

digging a bunch of stuff on montreal label fixture:

https://fixturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/july-first

https://fixturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/lion-head

https://fixturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/cool-coma

https://fixturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/do-not-affect-a-breezy-manner

That last one is nice. Bit of a ringer since it's from 2013, but I'd never heard of it, so it's new as far as I'm concerned.

whole label was new to me!

and technically anything that's come out after 1983 or so is "new" post punk far as i'm concenred

In my year-end piece, there were a couple good punk and hardcore albums too, but it's mostly post-punk:

http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-17/#breakdown

Punk, Post-Punk & Hardcore
Punk and its subgenres feel like a natural reaction to the current horrific political environment. Does music make a difference? Not always directly, but it’s a therapeutic escape valve, an important vehicle to express righteous leftist rage. Sure, there’s been a couple instances of right wing punk bands, but fuck them. Wet Lips are fresh out of the Melbourne queer punk scene. While they have every reason to be angry, their music expresses more proud defiance, such as the opening track “Shame,” refusing to feel shame. This can be even more powerful, especially in the context of a supportive, close-knit scene (they founded Wetfest for female and LGBTQIA+ performers, which completed its third year) to help people feel safe being themselves in an otherwise toxic, hateful world. Of course it helps that their raw, scruffy songs rock in a way that reminds me of Sleater-Kinney at their most ecstatic 20 years ago. Bassist Jenny McKechnie also fronts Cable Ties, which features a more rhythmic post-punk style. London’s H.Grimace is unpolished but talented. Another Australian newcomer is RVG. While I included them in the jangle pop list below, I made an exception to put them in two lists because I’m so damn excited about ’em. These women give me hope.
Protomartyr have been winning over fans and critics seemingly exponentially the past couple years. Their existential angst is balanced by pretty sophisticated, adult lyrics framed with dark, gnarly arrangements that sound like no one else. While Joe Casey’s vocals are not terribly melodic, his delivery is infinitely more interesting and involving than Sleaford Mods. Interestingly, only a few other bands are getting much attention, mainly Priests and Idles, with Algiers slowly getting a bit more due in year-end lists this past week. Clearly there’s many others deserving of a listen. | Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/4ZCGjirhP9aYrWtwjMjwRc

1. Algiers – The Underside Of Power (Matador)
2. RVG – A Quality Of Mercy (Our Golden Friend/Island)
3. Male Gaze – Miss Taken (Castle Face) | Buy
4. Wet Lips – Wet Lips (Hysterical)
5. H.Grimace – Self Architect (Opposite Number) | Buy
6. Protomartyr – Relatives In Descent (Domino)
7. Cable Ties – Cable Ties (Poison City)
8. B Boys – Dada (Captured Tracks)
9. Grave Pleasures – Motherblood (Century Media) | Buy
10. Drab Majesty – The Demonstration (Dais)
11. Orion – Orion (Cool Death/Paradise Daily)
12. INVSN – The Beautiful Stories (Dine Alone) | Buy
13. Rips – Rips (Faux Discx)
14. The World – First World Record (Upset the Rhythm)
15. Desperate Journalist – Grow Up (Fierce Panda)
16. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural (Sister Polygon)
17. Bonnie Doon – Dooner Nooner (Bonnie Doon)
18. Nicole Sabouné – Miman (Century Media)
19. WALL – Untitled (Wharf Cat)
20. Peter Perrett – How The West Was Won (Domino)
21. Duds – Of A Nature Or Degree (Castle Face) | Buy
22. Century Palm – Meet You (Deranged)
23. Death Of Lovers – The Acrobat (Pias)
24. Snapped Ankles – Come Play The Trees (Leaf)
25. Savak – Cut-Ups (Ernest Jenning)
26. Omni – Multi-Task (Trouble In Mind)
27. Sneaks – It’s A Myth (Merge)
28. Taiwan Housing Project – Veblen Death Mask (Kill Rock Stars)
29. Feature – Banishing Ritual (Upset the Rhythm)
30. Downtown Boys – Cost Of Living (Sub Pop)
31. Pregnancy – Urgency (Lost And Lonesome/Emotional Response)
32. Document – The Void Repeats (Document)
33. The Cowboy – The Cowboy Album (Fashionable Idiots)
34. Makthaverskan – Ill (Run For Cover)
35. ISS – (Endless Pussyfooting) (State Laughter)
36. Flesh World – Into The Shroud (Dark Entries)
37. Antisect – The Rising Of The Lights (Rise Above) | Buy
38. Idles – Brutalism (Balley)
39. Code Orange – Forever (Roadrunner)
40. Converge – The Dusk In Us (Epitaph)

Awkward semi-self promotion:
https://vukovarbrutalisthouse.bandcamp.com/album/the-clockwork-dance

Maybe wise to start with this single.

Nice Swiss post punk

https://maraudeur.bandcamp.com/album/maraudeur-2

And North Carolina:

https://acidetchrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/macho-city

And Germany, though this was 9/16

https://pisse.bandcamp.com/album/kohlr-benwinter

That Downtown Boys album is excellent. Produced by Guy Picciotto!

17. Bonnie Doon – Dooner Nooner (Bonnie Doon)

Ahhh I know them sorta! Cool band, cool album.

A couple nice entries from the Bandcamp year-end list:

Agent Blå – Agent Blue (Luxury) - Swedish post-punk and dream pop, better than Makthaverskan, nearly as good as Desperate Journalist, just more shambolic production along the lines of Orion.
https://agentbla.bandcamp.com/album/agent-bl

French Vanilla – French Vanilla (Danger Collective) - L.A. minimalist art punk with saxophones, plus a song about Carrie!
https://frenchvanilla.bandcamp.com/album/french-vanilla-2

Spiritual Cramp – Mass Hysteria EP (React!)
https://reactrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mass-hysteria

gSp (girlSperm) – gSp EP (Thrilling Living)
https://thrillingliving.bandcamp.com/album/12

The above two were recommended by King Woman and Mary Bell via Bandcamp. I had the Mary Bell album since Jan 3, and got burned out on it. However I'm enjoying it more again.

https://marybellftw.bandcamp.com/album/mary-bell-lp

Good call on French Vanilla!

I remember when these folks had a fundraising campaign to start a print magazine. It never went anywhere, and didn't realize they had a list.

http://www.post-punk.com/post-punk-com-best-of-2017/

Post-Punk album of the year:

Drab Majesty - The Demonstration

The rest of the best:

Slowdive - Slowdive
Sally Dige - Holding On
The Horrors - V
Algiers - The Underside of Power
Desperate Journalist - Grow Up
Second Still - Second Still
Pawns - The Gallows
Egrets On Ergot - Surfeit of Gemütlich
Amanda Palmer and Edward Ka-Spel - I Can Spin A Rainbow
Boy Harsher - Country Girl EP

Honorable mentions:

Choir Boy - Sunday Light
Gary Numan - Savage (Songs From A Broken World)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - The Punishment of Luxury
Death Bells - Standing at the Edge of the World
Glaare - To Deaf a Day
Bootblacks - Fragments
Azar Swan - Savage Exile
Ride - Weather Diaries
Die Selektion - Deine Stimme Ist Der Ursprung Jeglicher Gewalt
Odonis Odonis - No Pop
Martial Canterel - Lost At Sea
The Iron Oak - Dune Messiah
Veil of Light - Front Teeth
Death of Lovers - The Acrobat
Sextile - Albeit Living
Multiple Man - New Metal

My Favorite Post-Punk Albums of 2017

1 Idles - Brutalism (Balley)
2 Anwar Sada​t - Ersa​tz Livi​ng (Broken World Media)
3 WALL - Untitled (Wharf Cat)
4 Grave Pleasures - Motherblood (Century Media)
5 Wire - Silver/Lead (Pinkflag)
6 Drab Majesty - The Demonstration (Dais)

Haha awesome!

https://youtu.be/qGREPm3SAFw

Shopping ‘s Edwin Collins produced album is ok in a Au Pairs kinda way. They’re doing some US gigs with French Vanilla

Yeah, Shopping was my first pp purchase of the year. It's good but they haven't evolved quite as much as I'd expect. My list so far:

Shopping - The Official Body (FatCat) | Bandcamp
Frigs - Basic Behaviour (Arts & Crafts) | Bandcamp
Shame - Songs Of Praise (Dead Oceans) | Bandcamp
Neon Lights - A Slice Of Life (ACNL) | Bandcamp
Monochrome Set - Maisieworld (Tapete) | Buy
Dreamweapon - SOL (Fuzz Club) | Bandcamp
Mamuthones - Fear On The Corner (Rocket) | Bandcamp
Ought - Room Inside The World (Merge) | Bandcamp
The Men - Drift (Sacred Bones) | Bandcamp

I'm excited to see that the three For Against albums from the 90s will be reissued in a PledgeMusic campaign with extra goodies. I don't think they gave a release date yet.

https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/foragainst

It just gave a date when I did my pledge/pre-order, August 1. Though they said we'd receive music (CDs and dl in my case) "well before" the release date.

Whoa- I didn't know there was a new Ought out.

you you you you ought to know

Can't believe I missed this last year.
https://goldclass.bandcamp.com/album/drum

Catching up on stuff showing up in RYM:

https://santalibrada.bandcamp.com/releases
https://moaning.bandcamp.com/releases
https://snapeau.bandcamp.com/
https://edschradersmusicbeat.bandcamp.com/
https://voxlowparis.bandcamp.com/
https://criminalbody.bandcamp.com/releases
https://wharfcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-else
https://windatlas.bandcamp.com/album/an-edible-body

The new Ought is an interesting step forward for them. The vocalist has mostly ditched the sneering nasal tone and gone for full-throated Morrissey/Robert Smith histrionics - in a good way. The production is tasteful and suits the songs. Enjoying it so far.

Bambara - Shadow On Everything

https://bambara.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-on-everything

Looks like they've been around for 10 years or so but hadn't heard of these guys before. Really like their new album on first listen -- heavy Bad Seeds / These Immortal Souls / Crime + City Solution vibes.

Out today:

L.A.'s Second Still, who debuted last year with S/T full length, have two EPs. Part Time Punks is live in studio, including a For Against cover.
https://secondstill.bandcamp.com/album/equals-ep
https://secondstill.bandcamp.com/album/part-time-punks-session

Heads - Collider (May 4)
https://corpseflowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/heads-collider-2

Iceage - Beyondless (May 4)
http://smarturl.it/Beyondless

LIINES - Stop-Start (May 4)
https://liines.bandcamp.com/album/stop-start

Wax Idols - Happy Ending (May 16)
https://waxidols.bandcamp.com/album/happy-ending

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs (Jun 15)
https://rollingblackoutscoastalfever.bandcamp.com/

LIINES? are you kidding me with this? Jesus.

Perhaps the great reissues of The Lines on your label inspired them to bite the name!

Speaking of For Against, there's 16 days left in their Pledge campaign for the 90s albums reissues, and are just at 64% of goal. I hate to see it fail!

https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/foragainst

Or the other band that called themselves the Lines.