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

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