Rolling Post-Punk Thread

Cellular Chaos ‎- Cellular Chaos
Yvette - Process

There was a bunch of albums that I kind of slated as postpunk that I'd yet gotten around to listening to so I really can't complain they weren't included: new Fall and Pere Ubu, Howling Hex, Fists, Ricarda Cometa, Parquet Courts...

Some of this stuff was covered in imago's time travel thread

Imago himself seems awfully smitten w something called Blanche Blanche Blanche; no idea if that's postpunk or not

Viv Albertine album was cool; surprised Wobble and Levene album didn t make ur list fnb. I was p into that for a minute

Blanche Blanche Blanche are great. It's useless to try to parse exactly what is/isn't post-punk though. Parquet Courts record is great...it's a bit more of an 80s college rock vibe. Mission of Burma, The Embarassment, Dream Syndicate, the Feelies maybe.

It isn't useless. Not any more or less than talking about any other genre. I personally put Factory Floor in my electronica list but it could apply here. Looks like Henge Beat (2011) is the newest by Total Control? I hadn't heard it before, so thanks. I like the Vår. Cellular Chaos and Yvette are more noise rock, though there's some no wave influence I reckon. I heard earlier Blanche Blanche Blanche stuff and didn't think of them as post-punk but the latest does kind of fit.

I liked Wobble's Psychic Life (2011) but Yin & Yang didn't grab me so much, but am re-listening. Anyone know of Lydon tried at all to get them on board for the PiL album? I was also not so much into the Fall album, as it felt like a significant drop in quality from Ersatz G.B. (2011) but it does have moments, of course.

Additions for 2013:

Wax Idols – Discipline & Desire (Slumberland)
Blanche Blanche Blanche – Breaking Mirrors (Wharf Cat)
Suuns – Images du futur (Secretly Canadian)
Vår - No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers (Sacred Bones)
Sisu – Blood Tears (Mono Prism)
17 Pygmies – The Book Of Isabel, Part I (Trakwerkz)
The Fall – Re-Mit (Cherry Red)
Ruby Pins – Ruby Pins (M’Lady’s)

Cellular Chaos and Yvette are more noise rock, though there's some no wave influence I reckon.

Haven't heard Yvette - but there is def. no wave influence in Cellular Chaos. One of the songs on the record has a guitar part that is very early DNA-like, but then the song goes somewhere totally different.

Ruby Pins is one of the members of Grass Widow + a couple other dudes iirc?

I really need to give the Suuns a proper chance sooner or later

It's useless because it's endless. Factory Floor is post-punk? I know post-punkers like it, it's cool stuff. There are post-punk influences...but there are post-punk influences on 50% of the noise-inflected lo-fi outsider techno of the last year or two.

That's the beauty of it. It's endless, but some of us are still left wanting more, and arguing over what actually satisfies the post-punk itch. So no, Factory Floor doesn't scratch mine, but it does others.

About Ruby Pins, AMG says "Inspired by dreams her friends had about her, Grass Widow drummer Lillian Maring started this dream-like solo project in 2010."

Keep 'em coming!

Ian Crause-The Vertical Axis, new one post-Disco Inferno
Lust for Youth-Perfect View, house and minimal synth/new wave inflected lo-fi stuff
Regal Degal-Veritable Who's Who, 2012 release, krautrocky/psychedelic/art-rock through an early/mid 80s post-punk filter

Makthaverskan - Makthaverskan II (Luxury, 2013)
http://thekvb.bandcamp.com/album/immaterial-visions-2

Swedish band, sometimes veers from the darkness to sunny indie pop, but mostly in a good way. Has been burrowing into me.

Neon Lights - LA✝E (ACNL)
https://neonlightsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/late

Spanish post-punk/dream pop.

Correct Bandcamp link for Makthaverskan - http://makthaverskan.bandcamp.com/album/makthaverskan-ii

Shopping are pretty ace http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/news/exclusive-listen-shopping-stream-consumer-complaints-album-in-full/

Big love for Shopping here too

loving the hell out of makthaverskan, thanks for posting abt it

they are kinda post punk so i'll just mention that desperate journalist are wonderful and by some measure my favourite band of the moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BbpviG9sWk

Surprised not to see INVSN mentioned here:

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

I can’t say I would describe either of those as post-punk myself.

like it or don't, i guess

Thumbs up on both Desperate Journalist and INVSN. Of course they're post-punk! So far I'm as excited about them as Shopping. I'm not surprised they were missing because I knew I was missing stuff, hence this thread. So thanks! Also, I failed to include Holograms in my list, despite the fact that I had the damn album! That's what happens when you try to sort through nearly a thousand albums in a year.

Desperate Journalist - Cristina EP (Fandango, 2013)
Holograms - Forever (Captured Tracks, 2013)
INVSN - INVSN (Razor & Tie, 2013)

http://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/1dnm1NSN7nxrCtdLhdfz99
spotify:user:1212496385:playlist:1dnm1NSN7nxrCtdLhdfz99

I like Housewives. They're a bit no wavey

http://fauxdiscx.bandcamp.com/album/housewives

I'm not seeing Spray Paint mentioned ... Digging both their records today along with the Glaxo Babies re-issues.

faux discx have been kicking a lot of goals of late. not post punk, but the virginia wing ep they put out is v v riyl for broadcast fans

similar to the desperate journalist/makthaversan suggestions

http://spite-house.bandcamp.com/

ep from early '13, great live band too that don't play out nearly enough

Housewives are pretty good, remind me a lot of Six Finger Satellite who I think are a bit better.

Spite House sound like they've got a great record in them, too.

http://dekoder.bandcamp.com/track/pleasure

Hrm, so Dekoder released an album, but are only streaming a track and not selling it on Bandcamp, Amazon or anywhere else. No label, no info on RYM, Allmusic, Wiki, etc. Good times!

Write em a letter!

Ştiu Nu Ştiu

appear to be some unsigned kids from Sweden, doing post punkish stuff on the heavier side, almost dipping into metal (their upcoming album is I think mixed by Kurt Ballou)

"Ultra Silvam" was a dark horse favorite of mine last year

https://stiunustiu.bandcamp.com/track/ultra-silvam-2

check out "Borta" too

Heh, I did! The page is misleading in that "Pleasure" is not an album, but a teaser for Flowers To Blossom not due out until May on Chaos Rurale. You can, however, get their first album, Between The Waking And The Dying (2012) for $5:

http://chaosruralerecords.bandcamp.com/album/between-the-waking-and-the-dying

kylesa - ultraviolet

my favorite post-punkish album of 2013 by some margin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlbC-hk25Aw

Listened to Ava Luna. Eh, they're just ok--Gang of 4 guitars on first cut, Dirty Projectors vocals on some cuts.

It came out early last year and I'd sort of forgotten about it by the time the year-end lists started appearing, but I was reminded this morning how much I liked Crime & the City Solution's comeback - American Twilight. Not exactly in line with the type of post-punk represented by a lot of the above but I don't know what else you'd call it.

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Let's try that again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8kpy15K14k

Dot Dash - Half​-​Remembered Dream (Beautiful Music, 2013) - D.C. band with former members of bands including Julie Ocean, Swervedriver, Youth Brigade, Velocity Girl, etc. Their third album.
http://dotdashdc.bandcamp.com/album/half-remembered-dream

Feeding Fingers - The Occupant (Tephramedia, 2013) - Formed in U.S. in 2006, relocated to Salzburg, Austria. Fourth album.
http://feedingfingers.bandcamp.com/album/the-occupant-2

Eagulls - Eagulls (Partisan, 2014) - Leeds band has been getting attention earlier this spring. EP here, and full-length on Spotify etc.
http://derangedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eagulls
http://open.spotify.com/album/74KGur0bkIgnKWP2IXCe0g

Cosmic Thoughts - Cosmic Thoughts (2014) - UK post-punk, debut out May 5
http://cosmicthoughts.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-thoughts

hardly a big deal but i don't think any of dot dash were in velocity girl

also does anyone else feel the eagulls album isn't quite as amazing as the buzz around them would have you believe? it's not bad but far from special

I saw Beastmilk was touring with this band. This is good stuff, how did it not come up earlier in this thread? Help me out here!

Cold In Berlin - And Yet (Candlelight, 2012)
Cold In Berlin - Give Me Walls (2010)
https://coldinberlin.bandcamp.com/album/give-me-walls

Lower - Seek Warmer Climes (Matador, 2014) - New release from Danish band.
http://www.cmj.com/reviews/lower-seek-warmer-climes/

Protomartyr - Under Color Of Official Right (Hardly Art, 2014) - From Detroit, last album was promising, this hasn't made much an impression yet, need to relisten.
http://protomartyr.bandcamp.com/releases

Total Control - Typical System (Iron Lung)
http://hengebeat.bandcamp.com/album/typical-system

Dan Selzer faves from Melbourne released their new album this week! MTVIggy recommends "for fans of Tubeway Army, The Chameleons, Magazine, Merchandise." You can also vote for them as artist of week - http://www.mtviggy.com/blog-posts/artist-of-the-week-vote-for-your-favorite-9/. The album is kind of all over the place and even less focused than Henge Beat (2011), but from their synth punk ("Glass") to Fall/Kraut drones ("Black Spring"), it all works. I forgot to mention before they also have a great collection of singles from Feb '13 on Bandcamp - http://hengebeat.bandcamp.com/album/7s

These are popular on RYM, and are worth hearing but I'm not all that impressed:

Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World (Enemies List)
Die Nerven - Fun (Fin Du Monde/This Charming Man)
Cheveu - BUM (Born Bad)
Criminal Code - No Device (Deranged)
Sleaford Mods - Divide And Exit (Harbinger)

Sleaford Mods is especially grating in a barking, hectoring sort of way. I haven't heard these yet:

Earthbeat - Be Forest (We Were Never Being Boring)
Post War Glamour Girls - Pink Fur (HSR)

I haven't checked lately, but that Have A Nice Life album spent the first several months of 2014 in top 5 albums for the year so far at RYM.

It's #29 now. It's okay, but I much prefer Cosmic Thoughts, for example, which for some reason isn't even in RYM.

Earthbeat - Be Forest (We Were Never Being Boring)

straight-up dreampop/shoegaze

I really enjoyed the doomy, post-apocalyptic intensity of Beastmilk's Climax, and am getting into the fire and brimstone of Wovenhand. Anyone got similar recs?

has anyone mentioned Ought?

Ought - More Than Any Other Day
http://ought.bandcamp.com/album/more-than-any-other-day-2

I listened to it along with the batch of stuff on the RYM list, but forgot to list it. I like it more than the others on my last post, but am on the fence about the vocalist. Mostly good associations with early, shambling Raincoats and Clinic.

ooooh. I love comparisons with Clinic and the Raincoats.* I listened to a song from the last Suuns album that kinda reminded me of classic Clinic...

(*there's no modern band out there that reminds me of the Raincoats as much as Brute Heart, but my favorite album of theirs, Lonely Hunter, was 2011. Their last album, a soundtrack for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, was much more psych-oriented instrumental music)

I don't know why Ought changed their name to Cola. I know they "split up" but this material sounds so much like Ought and the lineup is almost the same

I know lots of bands chop and change members but I struggle with the idea of continuing a name when you lose a part of what made it that band rather than any other. I'd suggest that maybe they prefer the new name as well, but honestly 'Cola' is a pretty bad name.

I guess both names are hard to google for, so there's that. Honestly though thanks for bringing this up, I didn't even know that Ought had broken up.

I think this is the only thread with a Sextile reference, new single & dual video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSu495tKzAA

Just heard Exek for the first time. Intriguing! A bit of This Heat, Eno ...

A lot of PiL as well but they go beyond that. Just great. Saw them live a few years ago.

I heard a lot of Pil in Exek. Almost too much.

Also, that group Squid's singer sounds too much like Mark E. Smith at times.

Both groups are still listenable enough

Exek have certain songs that are total PiL pastiche but enough that arent, imho.

The new Jon Savage comp 1977-1979 Symbols Clashing Everywhere is a great buy if you're into this sort of thing. It has a lot of interesting b-sides you wouldn't normally come across. For me one of the big revelations was Siouxsie & the Banshees' 1978 b-side "Voices," which shows that they were interested in psychedelia even at that early stage.

I see I never added my favorite post-punk albums of 2021. So in the interest of consistency...
They are listed alphabetically instead of ranked and a couple of retrospective releases are included.

Black Rose Burning - The Wheel
Bush Tetras - Rhythm & Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras [Reissue]
Fotocrime - Heart of Crime
Getting the Fear - Death is Bigger: 1984-1985
Gustaf - Audio Drag for Ego Slobs
Iceage - Seek Shelter
Mads Christensen - 5212 Helvete
Panophonic - Awakening
Strangelight - The World Needs Laughter [EP]
Tunic - Quitter

The new SAVAK record slays, especially the opener "No Blues No Jazz".

https://savak.bandcamp.com/album/human-error-human-delight

Lithics are breaking up

:(

There's a new Cable Ties, All Her Plans:

https://cableties.bandcamp.com/album/all-her-plans

& Guardian Singles' new album Feed Me To The Doves is out on Trouble In Mind - much more Pacific NW-y than you usually get from a Kiwi band:

https://guardiansingles.bandcamp.com/album/feed-me-to-the-doves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJK3PXSCG_A

There's a new Cable Ties, All Her Plans

i heard "perfect client" on the radio and got SO excited but ... none of the other songs sound like that.

anyone who can recommend me rock in 2023 that sounds like sabbath's "mob rules" feel free to chime in

in happier news, this Stuck tune ("freak frequency"), caught my ear on the college radio station the other day. on re-listening, it's maybe a little rote, but it's pretty good!

https://stuckchi.bandcamp.com/album/freak-frequency

Saw Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamps live last in Washington DC. They were fun. A few folks had mentioned their 2018 album on other threads. They’re a 12 piece from Geneva, Switzerland with a singer / violinist, a horn section, a cello player, 2 percussionists, 2 marimba players ( or was that one xylophone and one vibraphone), electric guitar and electric bass, acoustic bass.

Sounded kinda like Stereolab meets A Certain Ratio and Pigbag plus an occasional bit of European and Brit folk

saw them Sunday, great set to a too small crowd at Pioneer Works. would add a bit of Kleenex/Lilliput and Anne Clark.

playing barbès in Brooklyn on Thursday, don't know how you fit 12 pieces with 2 drummers and 2 marimbas in that tiny room.

There were about 50 people on the backyard lawn at Rhizome in DC last night. Yep, I went to Barbes in Brooklyn once and it is small. Wonder how they will do it. I heard a bandmember explain last night to someone after the show that they didn't try to bring the marimba on the plane, they borrowed one in NYC.

New R.M.F.C. album drops today. Their previous "The Hive" comp was one of my favorite Devo-esque, garage-punk albums of recent years:

https://rockmusicfanclub.bandcamp.com/album/club-hits

YES. Same, same, same. Been looking forward to this one.

A+ live compilation, the Siouxsie and Judy Nylon performances are highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k02SuQppjnM

Judy Nylon into Young Marble Giants A+

I don't recognize every band...but I think Crime maybe steal this video.

I also don't think I've ever actually listened to Brian Brain. Have to correct that.

I wanted to do this but didn't pull it off. Henry Badowski's album repressed on vinyl

https://ctrmusic.bandcamp.com/album/henry-badowski-life-is-a-grand

the cliche blurb from everybody from Lush's Phil King on down is Syd Barrett meets Brian Eno.

Baby Sign Here With Me was also recorded with his band with Captain Sensible "King", and was later ripped off my the captain-less Damned as Edward the Bear on Phantasmagoria.

i always liked that album a lot. very hard to sell over the years. unfairly lumped in with henry rollins and charles bukowski probably. he should have changed his name. after the fact. he should have gone around to used record stores and crossed out his name and written in something cooler.

Great album. It's one of those records I see all the time in bargain bins all over Europe.

La Sécurité - "Bingo"
https://post-trash.com/news/2026/2/17/la-scurit-bingo-post-trash-premiere

With a dense bass fuzz, hairpin drums, and guitars that dart around corners with laser focus precision, the band are locked in and grooving. It’s a post-punk boogie at it’s most aerobic, clanking and contorting as bingo letters are called by Éliane Viens with a charismatic charm and a melodic stab of rhythmic vocals that snap perfectly into their interlocking puzzle. It’s contorted and delightful, the song sharpening La Sécurité’s B-52s and PYLON influences into something more alien, The video, directed by Philippe Beauséjour is really stunning, using animation and paper collage to capture the song’s propulsive energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWRXuQO9ZEs

The title track to Bingo!, their upcoming second album, due out June 12th

New Cola (pka Ought) album hasn't really clicked yet. I love both bands but they have a habit of doing the odd album that sounds deliberately grey and unremarkable

Thanks for reminding me that this is out! I will listen and report back.

The first song didn't grab me but now that I'm almost through the album I am completely sold. Will buy.

phormerly known as

In other news I nought the first Ought album from Discogs today. That is probably the most immediate thing theyve done. I could put together a very good Ought/Cola best of though

Xp not sure why my brain reached for "previously known as" when FKA was just there

I'm really loving the new Cola

technically cola is phormer members of ought

Yeah, true. I wouldn't say there's a significant shift in style other than Cola are a bit more stripped back (Ought were far from maximalists in the first place)

The two Ought albums I have (Sun Coming Down and Room Inside the World) are quite different from each other, so it's hard to generalize. Sun Coming Down rocks harder - Room Inside the World is more transitional, experimental. Cola kind of splits the difference - the arrangements are more stripped down, like Sun Coming Down, but the vibe is more rainy-day afternoon daydream, which tends to appeal to me - hints of mid-period Chastity Belt or early Smiths.

True. The first album is my fave of those three. I couldn't really handle Sun Coming Down due to dude's decision to do a bad Mark E Smith impression through most of it but I hope to come back to it some day. Room Inside This World is the outlier of all their work as it's a bit more lush, more instruments - goes into orchestral or synth pop occasionally. "Desire" is possibly my favourite song by them, along with "Habit". Cola sounds more like the first two Ought albums.

Sounds like I need to check out that first album. Not sure why I haven't before.

...but I think Crime maybe steal this video.
--dan selzer

i quite like the new cola album - there isn't really a standout track but it's very consistent and their chords/melodies are always interesting. really good bass player.