best out of the current-ish crop of post-punk bands people and algorithms keep telling you to listen to

also it's kinda fuckin....eyebrow raising that algiers aren't on spotify's big post-punk playlist cause their "fans also like" artists are....preoccupations, iceage, girl band, hmltd, shame, and protomartyr lol

Protomartyr - honorable mention to Slum of Legs, Metz, & TFS.

halfway through the HMLTD and can't tell if this is terrible or kind of compellingly wacky, but I think it's probably the former

Have enjoyed: Girl Friday, Goat Girl, Protomartyr, Iceage, Slum of Legs. I'd say Girl Friday take it on "Decoration/Currency" alone but wasn't too sure about last year's album, I should try it again.

porridge radio are also pretty much just indie rock with a dollop of extra noise but that album of theirs sounds like a big spiky hug to me rn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE7vLPSfw6Q

Shopping

yeah!

of these Viagra Boys, Dry Cleaning at the top

Priests (RIP), Lithics, Nots would be in the running if listed

I saw Protomartyr before they caught any buzz, they sounded like a photocopy of Interpol then. Have struggled to give them a fair shot since.

good poll, but no one is out there saying "listen to preoccupations" i don't think

which is too bad, they may be the best of this bunch

Lithics is a good call

Sweeping Promises, too

wish Flasher would re-emerge

I like a good bunch of the bands in this list.

The one Squid song I’ve heard (“Narrator”) bodes really well for their album coming out on Warp. It starts out like a facsimile of Pop Group or maybe more the Rapture, but it starts melting into something quite different a few minutes in.

So much genuinely terrible music in this poll

Slum Of Legs genuinely in the top 3 here but had to vote TFS

Algiers rounding out said top 3. I could do without the rest frankly

No FACS???

they are better than at least half these bands easy

of these Tropical Fuck Storm easy

facs ate cool but too arty and hip for this list

@milo protomartyr have improved mightily, check out their most recent one if you get a chance

priests broke up??

I should have included shopping

good poll, but no one is out there saying "listen to preoccupations" i don't think

no but algorithms are! they show up in recommendations/"if you like [this] try preoccupations!" pretty much constantly. I like them (they have a few *great* songs) but I still think of them as the meat-and-potatoes version of Women

TFS, Slum of Legs, Iceage and Protomartyr would be my top 4. It’s a toss-up between the first two.

And I wanna use this space to say that lj’s RYM review of BCNR is furiously otm.

iceage have also improved a lot

I haven't made up my mind about BCNR so maybe lj's review will help lol

also only just now realized I fucked up their name in this poll but honestly it's their fault for picking it

voting for black country, new road to annoy imago

nah, in seriousness I’ll probably vote for protomartyr for doing it and doing it well for years, and for making strides with each release

agree that porridge radio likely doesn’t fit here, and idles/fontaines are the ones for who i do not get the hype at all

viagra boys
protomartyr
algiers
slum of legs
idles

^^^ the bands on this list I currently listen to

preoccupations might be a measurably bigger deal now if they hadn't shot themselves in the foot with their silly former name, under which they released most of their best songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOLIHJKCu8M

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh that band

I saw the show where they didn't have a name, we'd gotten tickets then the thing blew up and the hmong student association at the university of mn was going to picket it, they had already announced that they were doing away with the name but hadn't gotten a new one yet so the whole vibe was really weird

Voted Tropical Fuck Storm with Fontaines DC as runner up, but lots of these are very good - most recently was checking out Dry Cleaning and am on the fence about the sprake/sing vibe but the music is top notch.

I confess I don't get shame, idles or fontaines dc at all. fat white family have an incredibly off-putting name but I enjoy their absurd beefs (I honestly wish bands would start more beefs) and a few of their songs

Tropical fuck storm and viagra boys

fat white family <<<<<<<< the moonlandingz

I should have put sleaford mods in here just to be a prick

Imperial Wax (the band the final Fall lineup became) knock spots off most of these, their album is really really good imo

https://imperial-wax.bandcamp.com/album/gastwerk-saboteurs

I've listened the most to Black Midi and they're the only one I've seen, so voted for them. They're soooo young though, I feel like they're either going to become something amazing or break up and do other things.

of these bands I've seen black midi, protomartyr, algiers, tropical fuck storm, iceage and metz live - none improved on their studio work, tbh, except for metz. watching franklin play and sing in algiers was thrilling but unfortunately his voice was pretty shot by the time they got here.

black midi are undeniably extremely talented lads but I agree w/ yr sense, Jordan, that their best work is still to come in one form or another

Shopping

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, February 25, 2021 5:35 AM (ten hours ago)

^^^^^^^^^^ 100% ^^^^^^^^^^

i like some of these bands quite a bit but there’s something about just about all of them (and they do have a pretty consistent sound right?) that i can’t describe but that is missing some crucial ingredient that makes a lot of the early post punk records pop to me. feels a bit rigid and texturally less raw or something

great list of all-time terrible band names

I feel like this list kinda covers the "dudely post-punk with press attention" more than the viciously feminist/queercore underground stuff? Surprised Crack Cloud aren't on here, tbh (a band I do not dislike but find it a bit bewildering how loved they are as everything is so smooooooth and perfectly rendered).

i feel like band name and quality of music are actually inversely related here lol

I would like to know if pfizer are secretly funding viagra boys

xp- i’d rate crack cloud above this whole list

I feel like this list kinda covers the "dudely post-punk with press attention" more than the viciously feminist/queercore underground stuff?

I did my best to diversify so it wasn't TOO dudely but I was wary of going too cool or punk. I confess I haven't heard crack cloud who I assumed were chris crack's posse

I should also clarify by "did my best" I mean "did my best within the 10-minute timespan between thinking of and then starting this poll"

i like some of these bands quite a bit but there’s something about just about all of them (and they do have a pretty consistent sound right?) that i can’t describe but that is missing some crucial ingredient that makes a lot of the early post punk records pop to me. feels a bit rigid and texturally less raw or something

I suspect this is 50% due to changes in production over the decades and 50% due to close familiarity/association with the original texts

What happened to Savages, are they still a thing?

This scene isn't my area of expertise, I like finding examples I click with though, and one of my friends is always sending me his new finds.

I think it's more just like, back when we were playing shows, everyone who we'd play with was firmly aboard the "fuck Idles/FWF" train, ha.

What happened to Savages, are they still a thing?

I almost included them but it's been, what, four years since Adore Life? I gather they're just off doing their own things for a bit. their first album is one of the most shameless post-punk excavation albums for sure (I like it a lot)

it’s a great poll imho

I need someone who's not me to listen to the HMLTD album to confirm I did not hallucinate that a new band is seemingly trying to sound like the dresden dolls

Feel like I would vote Protomartyr out of those listed, because they've had quite a few killer records.

I like Black Midi and Black Country, New Road, but I wouldn't really classify either of those as post-punk.

I dug the one Idles record I heard, but I feel like they are a band that you really only ever need one album by.

Digging the new Goat Girl, way more of a Stereolab vibe than I expected.

Forgot about the new Shame record, remember liking the debut.

feel like Goat Girl and Tropical Fuck Storm feel more rooted in the 90s than the early 80s UK

the best of these end up as a slurry of 1978-1992 IMO

(which is why I'd throw Sleaford Mods in here with the touchstones of MES and RZA)

i could see Sleaford Mods in there, if anything just because this grouping of bands is related as much on a shared audience than anything else

Are Yard Act another one of these bands? They seem to be on 6Music a lot (based on the 30-45mins of 6Music I hear in any given day).

I think I've only heard about half of these. Voted for Tropical Fuck Storm but I do like that latest Goat Girl album a lot.

priests broke up??

last January IIRC

Total Control another omission imo. They briefly had some hype, albeit not as much as they deserved

that's too bad re priests...I saw them a couple years back w snail mail as the openers, and when priests went on snail mail were headbanging at the side of the lil stage. it was adorable

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

1. algiers
2. tfs

is pretty easy for me

heard a fontaines dc song on the radio, they have heard the fall!

Yep, Total Control is quite the omission. Henge Beat such a great record.

Their last LP came out back in 2017, is why they didn't occur to me

Carpet Rash and Love Performance two of the best post-punk songs of the last ten years for sure

who do you blame for Fat White Family?

Ought should be on here. I really like Ought

dead to me since they left constellation for merge

(not really, the last album just didn't click for me.)

I voted Black Midi because I momentarily thought I was voting for Dawn of Midi

There are some bands on that list that I really, absolutely fucking adore:

girl band
preoccupations
iceage
idles

I was fortunate enough to see Girl Band play with Preoccupations (when they were Viet Cong) and Preoccupations support Idles. I also saw Iceage play in a church basement and a West Philly house show.

So this is tough... The Viet Cong debut is my favorite album by the bunch but Idles has been more consistent throughout their albums so I guess I'll go with them.

Write-in for Omni

ended up voting Algiers by a hair - TFS and Protomartyr worthy runners-up. honestly there aren't many bands here I actively dislike

oh shit, Omni rules

did anyone ever guess the made-up one, Simon? is it beige banquet?

no they're all real I was just being a dick

i think i wound up voting for girl band cause i respect how dedicated they are to punishing you with noise and drone, making you work for the scant moments of loveliness

yeah I do admire that as well, basically no concessions to a potentially wider audience

Surprised Crack Cloud aren't on here, tbh (a band I do not dislike but find it a bit bewildering how loved they are as everything is so smooooooth and perfectly rendered).

Lol CC really is about as cool as a band can get suffering from a potentially debilitating Gorillaz influence

Most of these are bands I was really excited about when I first read about them but none of them really did it for me, with the exception of Protomartyr, so I'm voting for them (I might have voted for Shopping had they been included).

i think this is protomartyr vs. girl band for me and picking one between those two is v v difficult

the made up one is obviously back country, new road

if only

i voted for protomartyr. i appreciate that they found their sound right away and have stuck with it with only minor modifications (eg the subtle extra instrumentation on the newest album). iceage and tropical fuck storm would be my backups.
i also want to say i appreciate that this poll mostly stayed away from the "post-punk = sounds exactly like joy division" trend.

brad i didn't even know you rated protomartyr!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

get rekt

excellent top 5 imho

my gradient of approval matches these results pretty accurately lol

brad i didn't even know you rated protomartyr!

― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:21 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i saw them at cmj many years ago and was an instant convert

guess I forgot to vote for Girl Friday :(

no horse in the race but - palberta?

just thought of warpaint maybe they should have been an option

the new dry cleaning album is very good

i remember liking the EP but the LP is hitting harder

ymmv depending on your tolerance for wordy spoken vocals

i'm late to the party but speaking of wordy spoken vocals i feel like i should mention Parquet Courts... and idk if Deli Girls is to heavy for the thread but they're rad too.

what's the dry cleaning album sound like? that is an A+ very good boring band name.

oh wait it sounds like wordy spoken vocals, i might check that out

It sounds like Life Without Buildings

aren't the vocals in LWB a lot more animated? i never listened to them much

yeah the vox here are not just spoken, they're sort of...maybe not outright indifferent, but drained of any sort of animation. I get that that's what they're going for and it kinda works on a couple songs but I find it wearisome over a whole LP.

I double-checked to make sure, and yep: the quotidian consumer junk dancing in montage to "Magic of Meghan" still enchants. (This is, mind you, a two-days-old discovery for me.)

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

i wish Wilderness was around they were fit well

enjoying Dry Cleaning maybe? finding the guitars much more of a draw than the vocalist mind

wilderness was awesome

i'm late to the party but speaking of wordy spoken vocals i feel like i should mention Parquet Courts...

― davey, Monday, April 5, 2021 11:35 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

something i would not have anticipated ten years ago is parquet courts becoming one of the most influential bands; every local scene has like 3-5 bands who sound just like them

I'm surprised Cabbage haven't been mentioned. Feel like they were on the verge of breaking through a couple of years ago. They weren't great.

I haven't heard every band on the list, but a lot of them don't do anything for me. Idles and the accompanying hype in particular I find very tiresome. A lot of these bands I just find myself wishing I was listening to Art Brut instead. They had the tunes and a cleverness that I just don't get from most of these acts. If Art Brut were just starting out now I probably wouldn't have much interest in them, but at the time they sounded fresh and it was easy to connect with them.

I loved that last Porridge Radio album and the new Goat Girl is one of the best albums of the year so far. I would have voted for one of them if I'd seen the poll in time. I'm still working out the Dry Cleaning album. Florence's vocals and lyrics sell it well, although I do sometimes wish the music was a little more compelling. Half way through I find myself losing interest a bit even though I do like the guitar sounds they use. There's definitely something there though. I've always wanted another band who come close to what Life Without Buildings did and at times I can hear some of that in Dry Cleaning.

I've always wanted another band who come close to what Life Without Buildings did

Have you tried Drahla? They remind me of LWB, but noisier and saxophonier (and better imo!)

I haven't no. I'll check them out. Thanks for the tip!

This video was my first exposure to Post punk band Dry Cleaning. Yep, they’ve got the formula down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PuqlOTyJt0

the notion that for her merits she is even in the same ballpark as sue tompkins is grandly calumnous tbh

A lot of these bands I just find myself wishing I was listening to Art Brut instead.

Have you tried Yard Act? You won't know you're not listening to Art Brut instead.

Ha, I just listened to a Yard Act song. I get what you mean. There's another band called Sports Team who do a similar thing. They almost had a number one album last year! I didn't realise just how many of these bands there were now.

I was told there are no more bands! and yet here there are so many, right in one thread

Who will do the Landfill Post-Punk thinkpiece in six months?

Ha, didn't see this poll previously, but Tropical Fuck Storm are totally a band that was recommended to me by a spotify algorithm and that I thought "Hey, these guys are pretty good!"

That's because unlike most of the bands here, they do their own thing and don't sound like Ought

, who are themselves derivative and dull

Metz is a weird inclusion here? post-grungey band on subpop and their debut was 9 years ago...
I guess Ice Age fit the sound somewhat too, but again their debut was a decade ago.

Viagra Boys are a lot of fun live, but both live and on record i'm still just wishing it was some new Pissed Jeans

I was told there are no more bands! and yet here there are so many, right in one thread

one local band I always thought was brilliant and never got its due was Brute Heart, but they were more i guess post punk in the slits/young marble giants way...but also very original they had their own sound, loved this band so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T1bjAsFNmg

was just going through a bunch of old records, Mother of Fire was great too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfNyUnBCOk8

more violins in post punk!!

I don't mind Viagra Boys...but in 2021 I'm not listening to an album called "Welfare Jazz" by a band called "Viagra Boys"

look buddy if I had to dodge all the bands with dumb names I wouldn't listen to anyone

it's more welfare jazz that gives me a vibe I don't like

I listened to a small clip of Dry Cleaning the other day and I remember suddenly wanting to listen to Animals That Swim?

I don't mind Viagra Boys...but in 2021 I'm not listening to an album called "Welfare Jazz" by a band called "Viagra Boys"

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, April 7, 2021 6:52 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

it’s a good album though

Like about 80% of the bands in this thread they are fine

they’re in my top 2-3 (with tropical fuck storm and dry cleaning) in this list before a big drop. my fav music is like midwestern garage punk and pigfuck styles of obnoxious punk music with dumb band names and jocular humour though

you ever listen to The Blind Shake?

ya! they’re great :) saw em around 2010 with michael yonkers

it’s p funny that Viagra Boys are swedish . i had assumed australia

yeah that period when they were working with yonkers was great

tho hope you get to see them without him, they were a lot more restrained w him obv

like the nicest guys

my top 4 would be the same as the results just in a different order

I also like Iceage and Metz. liked a couple of songs by Viagra Boys and Fat White Family but not really a fan of either. never heard any of the others.

oh Amyl & The Sniffers are alright too but Simon forgot to actually include them as a poll option

oh are they good?

the name made me think there were one of those retro sleaze l.a. punk kinda things

I actually did listen to and consider them for this poll but they struck me as musically up to something less self-consciously arty than most of these bands

I'm not sure I would say they were good, but they are alright. only heard a couple of things

Just catching up on Dry Cleaning, this is nice

wow way to show off your pandemic privilege

also fun Australian sort-of-post-punk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V2vC9EPc

it's the anti-"Slack Motherfucker"

love their album from last year.

I wouldn't have said either A&TS or The Chats were "post-punk". They're just... rock bands?

more violins in post punk!!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

You know it!!

^^^ yes!

yeah I only mentioned them because Simon did in the OP

I'm fine with calling both bands punk but no, not post-punk by any definition I recognise

I was going to say punk but then I'm not even sure that The Chats are that. But nah, I guess they are.

I guess The Chats are like the Sham 69 version of punk? That's okay by me.

The Chats are Australia's answer to HMHB

Last album a blast too yeah

They’re as post-punk as Idles, which is to say not much but they have elements (groove, MES sprechsang-y bits) that aren’t just ‘punk.’

I would err toward the broad church when it comes to a genre that fundamentally just means ‘came after the first half of 1978 or so.’

Not knocking The Chats here (though I'm not into it enough to make it through a whole album, I still get 'Smoko' stuck in my head every now and again), just can't see a world in which they belong to the genre of post-punk, as elastic as that genre might be. It just feels like it doesn't suit either the music or their own intentions.

I also endorse Brute Heart, they were great.

I think “Welfare Jazz” was referring to some Swedish program to provide funding for musicians that was oriented towards classy/respectable styles of music.

love "smoko"

The Chats are basically a live band Sleaford Mods

more violins in post punk!!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

sometimes i wonder if slum of legs were aware of king of the slums, another noisy violin wielding indie band also with a bit of a gobby singer, except they were from manchester in the 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCZSB_ktU8c

We weren't until people started comparing us to them! They're cool, though.

This is a tangent but I used to see this band The Danglers in tiny coffee shops when I was in high school, playing heavy prog and Slayer covers with a drums/violin/upright bass lineup, and they would absolutely blow my mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCE3-JjK6XM

really enjoying Dry Cleaning so far, had not been familiar

this video of theirs is cool & funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PuqlOTyJt0

Nightshift belongs in this discussion, really like their album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK4PRgbzWPs

Dry Cleaning remind a little bit of the wonderful Slovenly.

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

I like this Dry Cleaning thing as well. The guitar tone sounds a lot like something that I haven't been able to place so far.

For some reason A Frames just popped up on Spotify, now there was a fucking band

the disconnect between ILM and RYM is quite funny sometimes. folks over there going ham over squid

2021 - the year postpunk broke

new iceage good

Listening to Squid, and I think I might really enjoy it if I can ever get past the Big Jesus Trash Can vocals.

The wacky vox was the deal breaker for me with Black Midi too. Much prefer the aloof sing-speak of Shopping.

Much prefer the aloof sing-speak of Shopping Dry Cleaning

(god these are getting tough to keep track of)

I can't really take any of these bands too seriously because they don't really transcend any of the many ppl they're ripping off, but that said the new track "Slow" by black midi is a great this heat ripoff

The "aloof sing-speak" over angular post-punk guitars is something I'm running across a lot lately: Fontaine DC, TV Priest and Mini Skirt also do it to varying degrees of success. My blueprint will always be the Blue Aeroplanes, who add more melody to the angular guitars, but these new bands doing it are very enjoyable if not "transcending the people they're ripping off", as Bongo said.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/993931617/new-wave-post-punk-brexit-squid-dry-cleaning-black-country-new-road

guitar tone on the dry cleaning album is very much my shit

None of these artists except the new black midi have made anything as interesting as the stuff The Fall were making right up until MES died

I daresay no late Fall record is as good as the last Protomartyr album (and I have heard em all), not that they're particularly similar.

I meant in that article which is specifically about the UK bands

oh durr

I tried the dry cleaning album a few times but the vocals are...not a dealbreaker exactly but it doesn't seem like the most interesting choice

Yeah. As I said before, LWB comparisons are a nonsense

i really like the deadpan voice combined with her abstract/ridiculous lyrics. works for me but obviously won't be everyone's thing.

I do think as far as "trends in indie rock" or whatever go, the results have at least been largely not horrific

For some reason I like deadpan spoken vocals over dance music (Marie Davidson for ex.) way more than over guitars.

checked out Squid..think it might grow on me? his delivery can be too much but at times it reminded me of my beloved Signal to Trust fucking loved that band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJyFW-qs_4A

I know it's a minefield to even bring up the site, but there is definitely something zeitgeist-y going on with this stuff. Black Country, New Road is #3 for the year at RYM and Squid is #1 (BC,NR was #1 for a long time).

ha yeah with the dry cleaning album i enjoyed the spoken word vocals because they were pretty easy to ignore, didn't distract from the real attraction, which for me, is the guitar

well yes

that's the bar for these kinds of bands lol, vocals that aren't actively distracting.

porridge radio and algiers stand out among this particular crowd for having excellent vocalists.

well, Algiers' vocalist is the main attraction which makes them exceptionally rare!

BCNR and Squid have vocalists that actively infuriate me. black midi vocalist seems to have sorted himself out a bit for the new stuff

I like the Dry Cleaning vocals but I can't do an entire album at once with it, two or three at a time max.

Enjoyed Katie Alice Greer's singing (Priests)

I've got a vague thought that Dry Cleaning's guitar remind me of early Suede in a weird way. I can't really articulate what it is, though (in part because I haven't actually heard Suede for ages) but something like ... there's a swagger to Dry Cleaning that could almost be missed in the deadpan-ness, the lyrics declaring "He's a dick".

Squid singer was a bit much

BCNR's should never be allowed to speak or sing into a microphone for the rest of his life

(Not sure that makes any sense or is remotely evidence based - but I like seeing how absorbed in playing Dry Cleaning bloke is).

Bummed that Lithics are opening for Idles but not until the first show after Dallas. I don't think I'll make it to Phoenix for an opener slot.

black midi vocalist seems to have sorted himself out a bit for the new stuff

― imago, Tuesday, May 11, 2021 3:58 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

haven't heard the new stuff, but his old singing amused me because of how much it reminded me of larry blackmon of cameo

again, i say Flasher is kinda blowing it by not being in the middle of all this.

although

maybe we need a separate thread for, like, the "American post-punk band" thing from 3-5 years ago (Flasher, Omni, Protomartyr, Lithics, Priests) which somehow feels distinct from this weirder(?) Euro strain

(i'm not really suggesting a new thread, i'm just saying they're different)

agree

also Tropical Fuck Storm is the best band on this list but probably shouldn't be on it, don't really have much in common

they are v different but they often show up on the same playlists, recommendations etc

TFS emerged from the ashes of a 20-year previous band, giving them something of a leg-up, but it's still kind of mad that Liddiard's able to make the wildest music of his life at the age he is

giving him all the credit is ofc wrong; Dunn especially seems like she has a lot of input in this sound

BCNR's should never be allowed to speak or sing into a microphone for the rest of his life

he truly takes them over the line from 'eh' to 'horrible'

^^^

like i don't think they really succeed at what they seemed to be going for (a slightly jazzier gy!be? are people really getting excited about post-rock stuff in 2021?) but there's bits and pieces where you can hear some potential, but then his vocals are truly dreadful

the disconnect between ILM and RYM is quite funny sometimes. folks over there going ham over squid

I just found out about this album and came to post about it here, thinking it was some hidden treasure for all you weird postpunkzolofreaks. then I find out it's incredibly popular on RYM, #1 for the year with nearly 4000 ratings. I think it's good! vocals like some young Andy/young Colin fusion but I liked the early XTC and I've really dug this so far (I'm a couple songs in)

checked out Squid..think it might grow on me?

I loved them right away, have listened a lot this week. Perfect mix of energy and weirdness and annoying shouty vocals for me.

Squid - Bright Green Field (Warp 2021)

there is a squid thread fyi

a friend described dry cleaning as "like the smiths with jo brand replacing morrissey" & i don't think he meant it as a putdown

they remind me a lot of Elastica, definitely nail the mannerisms and are good but it feels too professional, no weirdness of the original post punk

though the music doesn't remind me much of the Smiths, like at all

Scratchcard Lanyard has got to be one of the best opening tracks of 2021

I still don't like Chaise Longue but I get why people do

I kinda both do and don't hope "algorithm punk" catches on as a name for this stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi8HjWTUqwI

oh bcnr have done something i like somehow. vocalist a lot better in this mode than doing his terrible spoken word-over-post-rock thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMBS8dfvjog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoVbq1K74f0

dream on, bonny lad. you're not the reincarnation.

I really like Sports Team... don't think we've talked about them much, beyond one mention in this thread, and a few posts on the Wet Leg thread(?)

They have a recent-ish song, from a new album out in July:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4qDqo1fY5A

(I didn't picture the singer looking like that... he kinda comes off like a giant dick, lol. Good band, though!)

this seems like the place to say I've been enjoying the new Just Mustard songs and Bas Jan album

What the actual fuck, this is INCREDIBLE

https://watergunsky.bandcamp.com/album/total-swarm-for-young-men

Imagine a gay Gareth Liddiard trying to make a speculative sci-fi album but being assailed by chaotic IDM, all with a melodic sensibility of Montreal wouldn't baulk at, and it being the best music

Oooh. That does sound good.

i think a description that promising needs its own thread

I don't like the new Sports Team album nearly as much as the first one, but this song is a highlight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fix8iUrPnMY

is it too soon to stop calling it "post-punk"

Have to say not loving the newest Crack Cloud as much as previous releases, and furthest away from "post-punk" influences they've gone probably. Always happens when angry young bands get more mature and subtle and leave behind some of that edge. Not all of it, and it def has moments. I've only listened to it once so really shouldn't be quick to judge. Still my favorite thing going these days mostly.

most def still post-punk though is Automatic, playing in NYC soon. Can't wait.

Yard Act are the worst of the latest crop, right?

have heard bad things about Bilk, and the new Cowboyy EP is laughable

we are in for a bad few years of UK art-rock unfortunately

that said it is quite hard to imagine worse music than Yard Act, yes

there's a song on the new shame album that sounds just like wolfmother

Well now!

https://halfemptyglasshouse.bandcamp.com/album/restricted-repetitive-behaviour-an-experiment-in-the-application-of-classical-12-tone-technique-to-contemporary-post-punk-composition

Listen if you are me

Er, "autismcore?" From my city, though ... is this via RYM?

reminds me of Polvo
cool idea!

If my favourite three tracks (1, 3, 6) basically didn't have the same tune as each other...

I feel like this is on the cusp of something amazing, maybe hasn't quite nailed it, but the guitar tone in the louder bits is So Good

<i>Starting the the late 2010's, a number of (mostly) British bands emerged with new and adventurous takes on the broad rock subgenre of post-punk</i>

what are they talking about, like Black MIDI?

excuse the formatting.

i assume yes, but a shame they're not actually referring to Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack

I dig this group English Teacher (from Leeds)... they've released a few really strong singles this year:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6xKTRZm3vI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u9AulY9Gdc