That Vnutrennee Sgoranie is pretty interesting. Thanks. More expansive arrangements than a typical post-punk band (horns, etc.). Some tracks remind me of Tzadik-released klezmer-punk stuff like Leonid Soybelman, or other horn-y punks like Dog-Faced Hermans or God is My Co-Pilot. I'm definitely picking this one up (the price is right too).
― o. nate, Thursday, 5 January 2017 02:20 (seven years ago) link
Random googling of Soybelman-related product led me to this, which I think I need in my life:
https://youtu.be/gANuerKFv9U
― o. nate, Thursday, 5 January 2017 02:51 (seven years ago) link
Priests, Drab Majesty and A Projection are all decent, but I think the new RAYS album (Trouble In Mind, Mar 31) will really do the trick.
On RAYS’ debut album the band spins eleven tunes of wiry, urgent post-punk, one foot planted firmly in the nihilistic apathy of 70 & 80’s punk (Wire, Electric Eels, Pere Ubu, Eno, Television The Fall), Australian punk past & present (UV Race, Terry, Victims, Babeez), and the addictive strum of 80’s & 90’s New Zealand/Flying Nun pop; all of whom have found their own way to meld the ferocity & thuggery of punk with a singular melodic voice.
http://www.troubleinmindrecs.com/rays-s-t-yellow-vinyl-version-or-cd/
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
IdlesBrutalism(Balley Records)Release Date: 3/10/2017 / Mid June for VinylFormats: CD/LP/Amazon/iTunes
http://rushonrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Brutalism_Front_Cover_opt-450x440.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4KKBC1uABloAIFc0TiUv5r
Found this while checking out 2017 albums on the Rate Your Music website. Brutalism is amazing, like the nihilism of Pissed Jeans meets the rigid abandon and sardonic lyrics of Mclusky. Very vicious, very heavy (one of the write-ups I found on the album is from a primarily metal website called, appropriately enough, Heavy Blog Is Heavy), like if Wire had less art and more fuck.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
The CD will cost me $20 in the USA with shipping. Will some cool label please pick up this band for North America? I will be happy to take my usual cut. Thanks in advance.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
"1049 Gotho" is just fucking perfect!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Ul9qokho4
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
i like it
― na (NA), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link
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
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 20:10 (seven years ago) link
it's very mclusky
― na (NA), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBdQZins_qM
great video starring their bass player
― na (NA), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
ok yes I like this very much
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 20:20 (seven years ago) link
Told ya!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 22:28 (seven years ago) link
I hear a bit of Girl Band in there as well...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 22:32 (seven years ago) link
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
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 01:54 (seven years ago) link
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...)
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 01:58 (seven years ago) link
WallUntitled(Wharf Cat Records)Release Date: 4/28/2017Formats: 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/4Ufl5qNKBfh2BsgNvUP5O8http://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,
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 28 April 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link
This is pretty good. I guess it's noise psych, but feels pretty post-punk to me:
The Gluts - Estasihttps://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/estasi
Looking forward to this:
Algiers - The Underside Of Power (Matador) June 23
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 5 May 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
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
― I don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson), Friday, 5 May 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
Dammit.
― I don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson), Friday, 5 May 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rinFWMZUGE&t=1s
― I don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson), Friday, 5 May 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
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 don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson), Friday, 5 May 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I like Sneaks. Didn't realize they have a new one already.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 5 May 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
feeling like clearance (from chicago) should be here. does anybody like them?
sounds a lot like the embarrassment !
https://clearance.bandcamp.com/
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 13 May 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
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"
― budo jeru, Saturday, 13 May 2017 23:14 (seven years ago) link
I really like the songs for the upcoming Chai Khat album:https://youtu.be/hM5WbNzRUCIhttps://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-trulyhttps://modemoderne.bandcamp.com/track/dazzling-dreams-2https://modemoderne.bandcamp.com/track/moderne-love-2https://modemoderne.bandcamp.com/track/doomy-daydream
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
crack open a room temperature Hansen's and get into these flat-style worms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISN3oz_94bE
― del griffith, Saturday, 19 August 2017 03:12 (seven years ago) link
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
― dan selzer, Saturday, 19 August 2017 03:21 (seven years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 01:02 (seven years ago) link
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
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link
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 & HardcorePunk 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) | Buy4. Wet Lips – Wet Lips (Hysterical) 5. H.Grimace – Self Architect (Opposite Number) | Buy6. Protomartyr – Relatives In Descent (Domino) 7. Cable Ties – Cable Ties (Poison City) 8. B Boys – Dada (Captured Tracks) 9. Grave Pleasures – Motherblood (Century Media) | Buy10. Drab Majesty – The Demonstration (Dais) 11. Orion – Orion (Cool Death/Paradise Daily) 12. INVSN – The Beautiful Stories (Dine Alone) | Buy13. 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) | Buy22. 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) | Buy38. Idles – Brutalism (Balley)39. Code Orange – Forever (Roadrunner)40. Converge – The Dusk In Us (Epitaph)
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 07:14 (six years ago) link
Awkward semi-self promotion:https://vukovarbrutalisthouse.bandcamp.com/album/the-clockwork-dance
Maybe wise to start with this single.
― Dan.S., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:06 (six years ago) link
Nice Swiss post punk
https://maraudeur.bandcamp.com/album/maraudeur-2
― Michael Train, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
And North Carolina:
https://acidetchrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/macho-city
― Michael Train, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
And Germany, though this was 9/16
https://pisse.bandcamp.com/album/kohlr-benwinter
― Michael Train, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
That Downtown Boys album is excellent. Produced by Guy Picciotto!
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
17. Bonnie Doon – Dooner Nooner (Bonnie Doon)
Ahhh I know them sorta! Cool band, cool album.
― Simon H., Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
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
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 15 December 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
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
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 17 December 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
Good call on French Vanilla!
― the underground is pass-agg (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 17 December 2017 06:45 (six years ago) link
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 - SlowdiveSally Dige - Holding OnThe Horrors - VAlgiers - The Underside of PowerDesperate Journalist - Grow UpSecond Still - Second StillPawns - The GallowsEgrets On Ergot - Surfeit of GemütlichAmanda Palmer and Edward Ka-Spel - I Can Spin A RainbowBoy Harsher - Country Girl EP
Honorable mentions:
Choir Boy - Sunday LightGary Numan - Savage (Songs From A Broken World)Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - The Punishment of LuxuryDeath Bells - Standing at the Edge of the WorldGlaare - To Deaf a DayBootblacks - FragmentsAzar Swan - Savage ExileRide - Weather DiariesDie Selektion - Deine Stimme Ist Der Ursprung Jeglicher GewaltOdonis Odonis - No PopMartial Canterel - Lost At SeaThe Iron Oak - Dune MessiahVeil of Light - Front TeethDeath of Lovers - The AcrobatSextile - Albeit LivingMultiple Man - New Metal
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
My Favorite Post-Punk Albums of 2017
1 Idles - Brutalism (Balley)2 Anwar Sadat - Ersatz Living (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)
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
Haha awesome!
https://youtu.be/qGREPm3SAFw
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 3 March 2018 08:39 (six years ago) link
Shopping ‘s Edwin Collins produced album is ok in a Au Pairs kinda way. They’re doing some US gigs with French Vanilla
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
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) | BandcampFrigs - Basic Behaviour (Arts & Crafts) | BandcampShame - Songs Of Praise (Dead Oceans) | BandcampNeon Lights - A Slice Of Life (ACNL) | BandcampMonochrome Set - Maisieworld (Tapete) | BuyDreamweapon - SOL (Fuzz Club) | BandcampMamuthones - Fear On The Corner (Rocket) | BandcampOught - Room Inside The World (Merge) | BandcampThe 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
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
Whoa- I didn't know there was a new Ought out.
― o. nate, Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
you you you you ought to know
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 10 March 2018 03:40 (six years ago) link
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/releaseshttps://moaning.bandcamp.com/releaseshttps://snapeau.bandcamp.com/https://edschradersmusicbeat.bandcamp.com/https://voxlowparis.bandcamp.com/https://criminalbody.bandcamp.com/releaseshttps://wharfcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-elsehttps://windatlas.bandcamp.com/album/an-edible-body
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link