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

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

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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!

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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!

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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