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.
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 25 February 2021 08:38 (three years ago) link
So much genuinely terrible music in this poll
Slum Of Legs genuinely in the top 3 here but had to vote TFS
― imago, Thursday, 25 February 2021 11:23 (three years ago) link
Algiers rounding out said top 3. I could do without the rest frankly
― imago, Thursday, 25 February 2021 11:24 (three years ago) link
No FACS???
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:07 (three years ago) link
they are better than at least half these bands easy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
of these Tropical Fuck Storm easy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:10 (three years ago) link
facs ate cool but too arty and hip for this list
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link
@milo protomartyr have improved mightily, check out their most recent one if you get a chancepriests broke up??
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
I should have included shopping
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:15 (three years ago) link
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
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:19 (three years ago) link
TFS, Slum of Legs, Iceage and Protomartyr would be my top 4. It’s a toss-up between the first two.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:27 (three years ago) link
And I wanna use this space to say that lj’s RYM review of BCNR is furiously otm.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:29 (three years ago) link
iceage have also improved a lot
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link
I haven't made up my mind about BCNR so maybe lj's review will help lol
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link
also only just now realized I fucked up their name in this poll but honestly it's their fault for picking it
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:37 (three years ago) link
voting for black country, new road to annoy imago
― little johnny juul (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
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
― little johnny juul (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:40 (three years ago) link
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
― little johnny juul (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 February 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
viagra boysprotomartyralgiersslum of legsidles
^^^ the bands on this list I currently listen to
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
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
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh that band
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
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
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
Tropical fuck storm and viagra boys
― flopson, Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
fat white family <<<<<<<< the moonlandingz
― imago, Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
I should have put sleaford mods in here just to be a prick
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
Imperial Wax (the band the final Fall lineup became) knock spots off most of these, their album is really really good imo
― imago, Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
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.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
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.
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
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
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
Shopping
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, February 25, 2021 5:35 AM (ten hours ago)
^^^^^^^^^^ 100% ^^^^^^^^^^
― emil.y, Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
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
― flopson, Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
great list of all-time terrible band names
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
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).
― emil.y, Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
i feel like band name and quality of music are actually inversely related here lol
― flopson, Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
I would like to know if pfizer are secretly funding viagra boys
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
xp- i’d rate crack cloud above this whole list
― flopson, Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
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
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
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"
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:29 (three years ago) link
I suspect this is 50% due to changes in production over the decades and 50% due to close familiarity/association with the original texts
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link
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.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
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)
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
it’s a great poll imho
― flopson, Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
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
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 25 February 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
feel like Goat Girl and Tropical Fuck Storm feel more rooted in the 90s than the early 80s UK
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
the best of these end up as a slurry of 1978-1992 IMO
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
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
― imago, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
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'
― ufo, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
^^^
― imago, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
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
― ufo, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link
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)
― frogbs, Monday, 17 May 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
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.
― salsa shark, Saturday, 29 May 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
Squid - Bright Green Field (Warp 2021)
there is a squid thread fyi
― ufo, Saturday, 29 May 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
a friend described dry cleaning as "like the smiths with jo brand replacing morrissey" & i don't think he meant it as a putdown
― unknown or illegal user (doo rag), Saturday, 29 May 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 30 May 2021 01:11 (two years ago) link
though the music doesn't remind me much of the Smiths, like at all
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 30 May 2021 01:17 (two years ago) link
Scratchcard Lanyard has got to be one of the best opening tracks of 2021
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 7 August 2021 00:43 (two years ago) link
I still don't like Chaise Longue but I get why people do
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Saturday, 7 August 2021 00:56 (two years ago) link
I kinda both do and don't hope "algorithm punk" catches on as a name for this stuff.
― Chris L, Thursday, 9 September 2021 05:34 (two years ago) link
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
― ufo, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMBS8dfvjog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoVbq1K74f0
dream on, bonny lad. you're not the reincarnation.
― maelin, Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
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!)
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
this seems like the place to say I've been enjoying the new Just Mustard songs and Bas Jan album
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
What the actual fuck, this is INCREDIBLE
https://watergunsky.bandcamp.com/album/total-swarm-for-young-men
― imago, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
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
― imago, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
Oooh. That does sound good.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
i think a description that promising needs its own thread
― ufo, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
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
― "Cool ranch dressing!" (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
is it too soon to stop calling it "post-punk"
― black ark oakensaw (doo rag), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 06:29 (one year ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
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?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 12 March 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
have heard bad things about Bilk, and the new Cowboyy EP is laughable
― imago, Sunday, 12 March 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
we are in for a bad few years of UK art-rock unfortunately
― imago, Sunday, 12 March 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
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
― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 March 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 07:33 (five months ago) link
Er, "autismcore?" From my city, though ... is this via RYM?
― etc, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:15 (five months ago) link
reminds me of Polvocool idea!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:16 (five months ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:19 (five months ago) link
<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?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:55 (five months ago) link
excuse the formatting.
i assume yes, but a shame they're not actually referring to Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack
― imago, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 22:58 (five months ago) link
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
― Larb starter (morrisp), Monday, 25 December 2023 23:15 (three months ago) link