Rolling Post-Punk Thread

Last year I added a post-punk/dark wave/goth genre list to my year-end summary, as a lot of new bands have been coming up, and a lot of old ones making new albums. My list for 2013 is shorter, and I'm sure I'm missing stuff, so hopefully some folks can add recommendations here.

2012
Merchandise – Children Of Desire (Jagjaguwar)
Deep Time – Deep Time (Hardly Art)
The Nightingales – No Love Lost (Cooking Vinyl)
And Also The Trees – Hunter Not The Hunted (Resurrection)
Killing Joke – MMXII (Spinefarm)
Big Joan – The Long, Slow Death Of Big Joan (Blood Red Sounds)
New War – New War (Fast Weapons/Sensory Projects)
Evans the Death – Evans the Death (Slumberland)
O.Children – Apnea (Deadly People)
Wymond Miles – Under The Pale Moon (Sacred Bones)
Pins – Luvu4lyf EP (Bella Union)
Breathless – Green To Blue (Tenor Vossa)
Viv Albertine – Vermilion Border (The Cadiz Recording Co.)
Kevin Hewick – All Was Numbered (Hacienda)
Talk Normal – Sunshine (Joyful Noise)
Grass Widow – Internal Logic (HLR)
The Soft Moon – Zeros (Captured Tracks)
Pop. 1280 – The Horror (Sacred Bones)
Ceremony – Safranin Sounds (No Emb Blanc)
Wymond Miles – Earth Has Doors EP (Sacred Bones)
Negative Fascination – Silent Servant (Hospital)
Paul Banks – Banks (Matador)
Savages – I Am Here EP (Pop Noire)
The Monochrome Set – Platinum Coils (Cherry Red)
U.S. Girls – Gem (Fat Cat)
The Futureheads – Rant (Nul)
Future Of The Left – The Plot Against Common Sense (PIAS)
The Wake – A Light Far Out (LTM)
The Distractions – The End Of The Pier (Occultation)

2013
Savages – Silence Yourself (Matador)
Beastmilk – Climax (Svart)
PINS- Girls Like Us (Bella Union)
Weekend – Jinx (Slumberland)
The KVB – Immaterial Visions (Cititrax)
Girls Names – The New Life (Slumberland)
Pop. 1280 – Imps Of Perversion (Sacred Bones)
The Exploding Boy – Four (Drakkar)
Flaamingos – Flaamingos (Felte) | Bandcamp
Merchandise – Totale Night EP (Night People)
Still Corners – Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop)
Iceage – You’re Nothing (Matador)
The Julie Ruin – Run Fast (Julie Ruin)
Wire – Change Becomes Us (Pink Flag)
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty (Sargent House)
Esben And The Witch – Wash The Sins Not Only The Face (Matador)
New Model Army – Between Dog & Wolf (Eagle Rock)
Gauntlet Hair – Stills (Dead Oceans)
TV Ghost – Disconnect (In The Red)

Persuade me this isn't Wire + a load of creatively-bankrupt shitmerchants, please

At some point, when it's not fucking Xmas, I'll write about more of them (you can find words about the top four in my summary), but anyone who already have their minds made up can fuck off and troll somewhere else.

Anyone know the status of Post-Punk magazine? http://postpunkmagazine.com/. I was going to chip into their fundraising campaigns, but the magazine supposedly slated to come out last Spring never did, and updates stopped appearing in October.

(need to hear that Killing Joke album, before AINYC gnaws my nads)

definitely wanna hear the Julie Ruin record

imago you should know And Also The Trees, they are old school also

The Total Control LP was a fave of mine that fits.

Wha, no Factory Floor?

If you have Iceage, you might as well do Vår (No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers).

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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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)

- oh and the Cheveu album wasn't that good?

- lots of talk about the last OOIOO album, Gamel. I haven't given it a listen yet but from what I read, that's prob would work v well in this context.

I listened to a song from the last Suuns album that kinda reminded me of classic Clinic

ha pretty much EVERY suuns song reminds me of clinic

Cheveu just didn't get me excited on first listen. I'm sure some would like 'em and perhaps will grow on me. Hear for yrselves! I'd been way into OOIOO at one point, but gamelan music was probably the last thing I wanted to hear from them. It's okay I guess, but if I have some gamelan albums if (big if) I ever crave some again.

http://theflenser.bandcamp.com/album/the-unnatural-world
http://shop.bornbadrecords.net/album/bum
http://criminalcode.bandcamp.com/album/no-device
http://wwnbb.bandcamp.com/album/wwnbb-051-earthbeat
http://postwarglamourgirls.com/album/pink-fur

Mode Moderne - Occult Delight (Light Organ) - Vancouver jangly pop heavily influenced by Smiths, Interpol, etc. This could irritate some, but its grown on me, particularly tracks 6-8. Their first album was self-released in '09.
http://modemoderne.bandcamp.com/album/occult-delight

The New Christs - Incantations (Impedance) - Melbourne post-punk garage featuring Rob Younger of Celibate Rifles, New Race, Radio Birdman. They've been going since 1980! This is their first since Gloria (2009), and appear to get better with age.
http://thenewchrists.bandcamp.com/album/incantations

The Sea Kings – Woke In The Devil’s Arms (Iffy Folk) - Scottish band with diverse debut full length, only a few songs can be described as post-punk, but it's too great not to mention. Review: I just about lost my mind when I first heard the lead single from Glasgow’s The Sea Kings’ debut album. “Bible John” sounds like a long-lost single from 1984, a supergroup collaboration between The Smiths and Postcard groups like Aztec Camera, The Go Betweens and Josef K. Despite its celebratory ebullience, it’s actually a sinister tale about the 1960s Glasgow Barrowland killer. That’s pretty much the band’s m.o., tales about horrible things. Nick Cave would approve. The title track that kicks off the album is especially indebted to Cave, and also underrated Australian band The Triffids. Dark, heavy and brooding, it’s a magnificent start to the album. “Moonlit Range” is a plodding death waltz that made me wonder when they were going to pick up the tempo again. It turns out nothing else on the album remotely resembles “Bible John.” After adjusting expectations, the album’s brilliance spreads through you like the warm burn of a double Scotch. “The Night Of Broken Glass” takes place in 30s Germany where a young man fatally attempts to defect. “Is Paris Burning” has some particularly evocative imagery as a tragic love note from a jail cell. The band citing writer Alasdair Gray as an influence turns out to be no joke. These are truly literary songs. The album ends with another highlight, “Across The Coals,” a ghostly murder ballad with Ennio Morricone undertones and strings, like The Dirty Three with an excellent lyricist. You’d think the arrival of a colossal talent like this would call for some fanfare, but eh, it’s 2014 and everyone has their heads up their arses in their own particular micro scenes. Had I not been on the lookout for something like this for a while I might have missed it too, just as I missed their first Some Dark Matters EP (Iffy Folk, 2010). But if one catchy riff is enough to fuel a decade plus career for Interpol (“Say Hello To The Angels”), hopefully “Bible John” can bring similar attention to this well-deserving band. | Amazon | iTunes | CD (Europe only)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlyT9yNuDIE&feature=youtu.be

been enjoying the mode moderne for a while, it's not at the top of the heap for that sound but i like their laidback take on it

http://sharktoys.bandcamp.com/

Total Control - Typical System (Iron Lung)

Really got on a New Christs kick, listening to their whole catalog. Reviewed it with the second Hits album, a Brisbane band, treads similar territory of post-punk and garage noir.

Hits – Hikikomori (Conquest Of Noise)
http://fastnbulbous.com/new-christs-incantations-hits-hikikomori/

Just finished listening to Merchandise - After The End, which is out officially next week. More in a new wave/synth/jangle pop direction, which would be fine, but am a bit disappointed by the quality of songs.

Ausmuteants, Low Life, Dreamsalon, Protomartyr, Whore Paint, Cured Pink, Flesh World, Rat Columns, Die Schacht.... Weird how the new Total Control isn't in any stores here in NYC other than Rough Trade. Album comes with a bonus radio-show cd. This Brazilian band Rakta looks promising, but maybe more guitar-noise than post-punk.

I'm going to see Yvette tonight.

http://fastnbulbous.com/post-punk-rundown/

I haven't written as much as I'd like, job prevents me from staying up all night. Dangling Interpol review as lure/gateway to other bands, ha. This one came out in January (Germany) and May, and is new to me and this thread:

The Estranged – The Estranged (Sabotage/Dirtnap)
This Portland band started out with a pretty great set of singles, collected on Type Foundry Session Vol. 1 (2009). It’s rough hewn post-punk with relentlessly scorching guitars informed by local legends The Wipers, and maybe a touch of Aussie influences in Radio Birdman. The singles were much more electrifying than their first album Static Thoughts (2008), which has them taste-testing a variety of 1978-82 era material from Wire, The Cure and Gang Of Four, while The Subliminal Man (2010) saw the band, whose members have roots in hardcore punk, expanding their range to include The Chameleons and a bit of jangly pop. Four years later they’re sounding better than ever on their self-titled third, growing into their own skins and shedding more obvious characteristics of their influences. So not so much angular UK post-punk, and more hard-edged garage rock along the lines of the latest from The New Christs and Hits I recently raved about. The band has tightened up, and while there is still some rawness in the guitar sound, the playing is cleaner and more focused, with an extra layer of complexity that lends to more rewarding repeat listens. Keith Testerman’s drumming is relentlessly propulsive like Anton Fier’s work in The Feelies. At times he could use a touch of the flamboyance of the likes of Echo & the Bunnymen’s Pete de Freitas. But couldn’t everyone? Mark Herman’s vocals remain understated, preferring to blend in with the music rather than parade in front of it like, oh, Simple Minds after they started losing the plot in ’83, or a million other bands that try too hard. Rather, they sound like a band that’s been at it for several years and are simply letting it flow.

http://dirtnaprecords.bandcamp.com/album/estranged-the-s-t
https://sabotagerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-estranged-type-foundry-session-vol-1

http://backseatmafia.com/2014/11/06/featured-artist-the-gluts/
https://thegluts.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4x-AZW1ouA#t=53

Dark Blue - Pure Reality (Jade Tree) - This is quickly climbing up my year-end list to the point where I like it nearly as much as last year's great Beastmilk album, along similar hard-hitting lines. I bought the CD and added the single via Bandcamp dl, "Just Another Night With The Boys," which is essential. John Cale cover is good too.
https://darkblueskins.bandcamp.com/album/pure-reality
https://darkblueskins.bandcamp.com/album/just-another-night-with-the-boys

Cult Of Youth - Final Days (Sacred Bones) - Neo-folk, gothy darkwave, expands their palate. I hear a bit of Savage Republic this time, but also some more tuneful parts on their fourth album.

So any of these making your year-end lists this year?

Have A Nice Life and Makthaverskan will be on mine.

makthaverskan ii is an incredible record

Yeah it's great, but that came out March 2013.

true tho the US version was 2014

Girl Band are notably absent from this 2014 roundup. "Lawman" was IMO the best post-punk single this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxe3NZKYL0

The new Dreamsalon, Iceage, Miami Dolphins, Institute

Thanks! I include EPs, but so far Girl Band only had singles this year. I thought Desperate Journalist would have an album this year, but they also just did a single.

Dreamsalon - Soft Stab
https://dreamsalon.bandcamp.com/

The Miami Dolphins - Becky
https://themiamidolphins.bandcamp.com/album/becky

Institute - Salt EP
http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr119-institute-salt-ep

Universe People - Are Coming To The Dance - Promising trio from Seattle, a bit of Liliput & Sleater-Kinney influence.
https://universepeople-bonjour.bandcamp.com/

Stiu nu Stiu - ULTRA SILVAM; mentioned an early song or two from these guys upthread, and their first full album has sneakily become an underdog favorite this year. Swedish band playing a kind of heavy post-punk not totally unlike Beastmilk (and Kurt Ballou mixed this too) but incorporating more doom influence.

https://stiunustiu.bandcamp.com/album/ultra-silvam

more mopey and atmospheric than Beastmilk too

really digging the new albums from hozac alumni population & schonwald, seem to fit in here

https://population.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-pale
https://anywave.bandcamp.com/album/dream-for-the-fall

Thanks for turning me onto Makthaverskan II, guys. They're not nearly as "anti"-pop as they protest, but that's fine. Makes me think of The Clean and John Cale's song "Ski Patrol," although with wailing young vocals and ready elbows.

Interesting, who has been mentioning Stiu nu Stiu as favorites? This is the first time I've seen them mentioned, and I regularly scour the blogs. I checked again and saw I missed this review in June - http://echoesanddust.com/2014/06/stiu-nu-stiu-ultra-silvam/

that was me, and yeah they don't seem to have gotten much coverage yet; I only discovered them at the end of last year when on a whim I tried to catalog all of Kurt Ballou's 2013 production and mixing work.

that review is pretty positive! it doesn't even mention post-punk and while I definitely hear that I agree it is reductive as there are post rock, drone, metal and even dream pop influences too

funnily enough I just discovered that at the bottom of the "reviews" page on their official site they link to the ILM rolling metal thread where I singled them out for special mention when I posted the results of my 2013 Ballou cataloging:

http://www.stiunustiu.com/reviews

I really didn't get into their performance at a street fest last summer, so it took me a while to warm back up to the Protomartyr album but I'm liking it much more finally.

Spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/4GTF8gNmhHxRSOmKHuzFRL

Been looking forward to this.

Desperate Journalist - Desperate Journalist (Fierce Panda) Jan 26

http://www.backseatmafia.com/2015/01/07/album-launch-desperate-journalist-launch-debut-lp/

I did this a month ago but neglected to post my post-punk genre year-end list here:

Post-Punk 2014
Spotify Playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/4GTF8gNmhHxRSOmKHuzFRL

Dark Blue – Pure Reality (Jade Tree) | Bandcamp
The New Christs – Incantations (Impedance) | Bandcamp
The Gotobeds – Poor People Are Revolting (12XU) | Bandcamp
The Estranged – The Estranged (Sabotage/Dirtnap) | Bandcamp
Protomartyr – Under Cover Of Official Right (Hardly Art) | Bandcamp
Interpol – El Pintor (Matador)
Total Control – Typical System (Iron Lung) | Bandcamp
Ought – More Than Any Other Day (Constellation) | Bandcamp
Ştiu Nu Ştiu – Ultra Silvam (EDILS) | Bandcamp
Mode Moderne – Occult Delight (Light Organ) | Bandcamp
Post War Glamour Girls – Pink Fur (HSR) | Bandcamp
Iceage – Plowing Into the Field of Love (Matador)
Lower – Seek Warmer Climes (Matador) | Buy
Merchandise – After The End (4AD)
Have A Nice Life – The Unnatural World (Enemies List) | Bandcamp
Schonwald – Dream For The Fall (Anywave) | Bandcamp
Population – Beyond The Pale (Mass Media) | Bandcamp
Eagulls – Eagulls (Partisan)
Rat Columns – Leaf (R.I.P. Society) | Bandcamp
The Blue Angel Lounge – A Sea Of Trees (8MM)
Nicole Sabouné – Must Exist (Roxy)
Esben And The Witch – A New Nature (Nostromo) | Bandcamp
Universe People – Are Coming To The Dance (Dragnet) | Bandcamp
Cult Of Youth – Final Days (Sacred Bones)
Dekoder – Flowers To Blossom (Chaos Rules) | Bandcamp
Cosmic Thoughts – Cosmic Thoughts (Cosmic Thoughts) | Bandcamp
Dreamsalon – Soft Stab (Dragnet) | Bandcamp
The Miami Dolphins – Becky (FPE Records) | Bandcamp
Institute – Salt EP (Sacred Bones)
Low Life – Dogging (R.I.P. Society)
Creative Adult – Psychic Mess (Run For Cover)
Cheveu – BUM (Born Bad) | Bandcamp
The Nightingales – For Fuck’s Sake (Nightingales) | Buy

picked up the desperate journalist lp digitally a couple of months ago, it's excellent

the rat columns album you mention is really great, quite all over the place musically in some ways, even jangly pop in parts

I haven't found anything from that Desperate Journalist album yet, weird.

Album from French one-man band was available last year but is reissued on vinyl this year:

Jessica 93 - Rise (Teenage Menopause)
https://teenagemenopause.bandcamp.com/album/rise

Just discovered Lusts today. "Temptation" is especially grebt.

https://soundcloud.com/lustsmusic/temptation

This is probably the best place to ask. I'm looking for more good crazy, kind of wacky, conceptual new wave albums? I'm thinking stuff in the vein of Kid Creole's 'Tropical Gangsters', B-52s' 'Mesopotamia', Ze Records type things, Oingo Boingo, Devo, Pere Ubu's 'Dub Housing'? Looking for arty/off-the-wall/cartoonish especially.

Modern Romance - Everybody Salsa/Can You Move/Queen of the Rapping Scene?

not heard those, so i will check!

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/

Wovenhand, The Sea Kings and Lola Colt on my ballot, all with some post-punk elements, got no votes from anyone else. However some others did pretty well:

20 Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal
36 Protomartyr, Under Color of Official Right
64 Pharmakon, Bestial Burden
79 Total Control, Typical System
90 Warpaint, Warpaint
99 Shellac, Dude Incredible
111 Iceage, Plowing Into the Field of Love
122 Merchandise, After the End
133 Sleaford Mods, Divide and Exit
140 Ought, More Than Any Other Day
151 The Horrors, Luminous
183 Godflesh, A World Lit Only By Fire
215 Eagulls, Eagulls
218 The Both, The Both
224 Bitchin Bajas, Bitchin Bajas
231 The Gotobeds, Poor People Are Revolting
231 Liars, Mess
297 Interpol, El Pintor

Man I forgot how much I liked that Parquet Courts album.

I've been obsessed with Certain General & Band Of Outsiders. Having a hell of a time tracking down CDs or lossless. One guy online has a 23 track "special edition" of this:

Certain General - November's Heat 1984

As far as I can tell though, that version never existed. A French 1990 reissue had 5 completely different bonus tracks:

12 Johnny
13 Strippin' The Blues
14 Uptight (Groove Version)
15 Nowhere
16 That's Where I Hang (Live Version)

Whereas this guy has these:

12 Hello My God
13 Kill And Take
14 Desert
15 Certain General Theme
16 Red Ledge
17 Fly Me To Berlin
18 Service
19 Dachau Now
20 Sellout
21 Trench
22 At Peace
23 Leader Out

I would totally buy that if someone reissued it!

I used to have Certain General's "Signals From The Source" but it never did anything for me and sold it and never bothered to hunt down "November's Heat" which is supposed to be their best.

Yes, they changed a bit after the first album. It's on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/28jthAZ3swXzQXE8niWZQj

http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=certain_general

Out today:

Desperate Journalist - Desperate Journalist (Fierce Panda)
http://www.fiercepanda.co.uk/shop.php?release=465
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/18598/reviews/4148635
http://thequietus.com/articles/17072-desperate-journalist-desperate-journalist-review

^my fave record of the last 6 months

I thought one of Certain General who turned up on the Wildweed yahoo Gun Club list about 10 years ago had compiled a 2cd set sometime back then which was available at the time.
I saw them at Alice in Wonderland back in the early 80s and enjoyed them . I think it was AiW anyway pretty sure it was that venue.

Nite Fields - Depersonalisation (felte)
https://nitefields.bandcamp.com/album/depersonalisation-2

Motorama - Poverty (Talitres) - Russian band on a French label, I've been enjoying this for the past month, and just became available on Spotify yesterday.
https://talitres.bandcamp.com/album/poverty
https://play.spotify.com/album/1NlRSDgmMTMYk1zoOtD4Gq

RA - Scandinavia (Adrian) - Swedish band self-described as "Nordic noir-punk," yas! Still looking for a way to purchase lossless or a CD.
http://shop.adrianrecordings.com/product/ra-scandinavia-vinyl-album
http://play.spotify.com/artist/26XS4hmEAbEm3nmWCIOIDa

I've been pre-occupied with the nightmarish process of moving (selling, buying, closings) and feel a bit out of the loop so please help and include anything I'm missing!

Also, Johan Snell left Beastmilk (who had also gained a member in Linnéa Olsson from The Oath), and they are renamed Grave Pleasures, with a new album coming out this year.
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/beastmilk-parts-ways-with-guitarist-johan-goatspeed-snell-changes-name-to-grave-pleasures/

Street Eaters have their moments:

http://streeteaters.com/track/blood-muscles-bones

Catching up with some short reviews of a few mentioned above, and these. Especially love the Male Gaze, though it's way too short!

Male Gaze – Gale Maze (Castle Face)
LoneLady – Hinterland (Warp)
zZz – Juggernaut (Excelsior)
Rule Of Thirds – Rule Of Thirds (Mass Media)

http://fastnbulbous.com/early-2015-postpunk-rundown/

Also RA finally got on Bandcamp - https://ramalmo.bandcamp.com/album/scandinavia

Marching Church – This World Is Not Enough (Sacred Bones) - Forgot to mention this. Features members of both Iceage and Lower.
http://marchingchurch.bandcamp.com/album/this-world-is-not-enough

Soko – My Dreams Dictate My Reality (Babycat) - Solo French singer/actor had folky debut 7 yrs ago, discovers The Cure, lol.

More on Grave Pleasures: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/grave-pleasures-signs-with-sony-prepares-to-record-new-album/

Major label release in September, interesting. They've become quite the supergroup, with members of The Oath, In Solitude, Hexvessel and Oranssi Pazuzu!

Bizarre. Also I hope this doesn't break up Oranssi Pazuzu; we've already lost In Solitude!

Ceremony - The L-Shaped Man (Matador)
http://fastnbulbous.com/ceremony-the-l-shaped-man/

They played at 924 Gilman in Berkeley earlier this week, anyone see 'em?

City Calm Down - Rabbit Run
https://soundcloud.com/iohyouparty/city-calm-down-rabbit-run

new track, Rabbit Run from Melbourne's impressive, City Calm Down

sounds like a vintage Echo & the Bunnymen track

'Rabbit Run' is the first single to be lifted off City Calm Down's highly anticipated debut album 'In A Restless House', which will be released via I OH YOU on the 11th of September, 2015.

every track they have released so far has been high quality, so follow on spotify.

https://nakedlights.bandcamp.com/album/on-nature

i think they just broke up and played their last gig a couple weeks ago

Was just emailing one of them a few days ago on facebook...didn't sound like they've broken up.

Lower - At The Endless Party

Any updates on the "Now That's What I Call DIY" comp? Our man Dan is writing the liner notes, but I heard there's a legal issue delaying it?

Liner notes is a reprint of an article I wrote. Legal issue had to do with the title, I think he had to make new artwork? Not sure what the timing is, will let Stirmonster show up with the answers.

The Viet Cong record is very post-punk and my favorite album of the year. in fact, I can't think of the last album that I played this much.

Saw them live a couple months back too and they were great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW1kP99mok4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdMz7BUtOvk

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet.

dubby post-punk

Cured Pink - (I'm) Swimming
https://soundcloud.com/ripsociety/cured-pink-im-swimming

RIP049. Cured Pink - As A Four Piece Band LP
Out July 31, 2015.

As A Four Piece Band
by Cured Pink
https://curedpink.bandcamp.com/album/as-a-four-piece-band

check back for new tracks

Shout out for the Algiers record - there's definitely a bit of the Birthday Party in their genes, but much else besides

There's a new Ought album out soon. Rather excited about that.

Yes, the "Beautiful Blue Sky" single is promising!

Also that Desperate Journalist record sounds really good - had it recommended by a friend who suggested Morrissey should appropriate their style for his solo stuff, getting Mozzy vibes from it.

Thanks for all the updates! Viet Cong has been at the top of a lot of post-punk lists all year and got a ton of publicity (negative mostly) for kerfuffles over their name. I like 'em fine but didn't think to mention 'em because of their relative ubiquity. I was a little late on the Algiers album, just heard it a few weeks back, and I like the soul/gospel vocal treatment over the dirgey post-punk (yeah, some early Birthday Party in there!), like a darker variation of early TVOTR.

Looking forward to these:

Grave Pleasures - Dreamcrash (Columbia) 4-Sep
The Libertines - Anthems For Doomed Youth (Harvest) 11-Sep - Heh. Could be terrible, who knows.
Ought - Sun Coming Down (Constellation) 18-Sep
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art) 9-Oct - https://protomartyr.bandcamp.com/album/the-agent-intellect
Wax Idols - American Tragic (Collect) 16-Oct

Hand Of Dust - Debut album coming out this fall from very promising Danish post-punkers with an extra dose of garage noir blues. Check out their previous EPs:
https://handofdust.bandcamp.com/album/walk-in-white
https://handofdust.bandcamp.com/album/without-grace-or-glory
https://handofdust.bandcamp.com/album/tape

Another Danish band I'm more on the fence about is Communions. Early Echo is good, but maybe too much 90s Verve, Stone Roses in there for my comfort.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0R8TAmoXJnoB6ro5cp1XdI
https://soundcloud.com/poshisolation/communions-cobblestones
https://soundcloud.com/tough-love/communions-so-long-sun-1
https://youtu.be/xSM5Tre3lzY
https://youtu.be/FQN7uacxnQY

This has been making rounds on Facebook of all places, Nervous Curtains - Devastator, sounds very post-punk funk, upcoming album produced by Daron Beck of Pinkish Black. They're right in EZ's backyard so he might know more...

https://m.soundcloud.com/nervous-curtains/devastator

Re-issue of Sound side-project Second Layer, including EPs, but vinyl only, bastards - http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/dark-entries/second-layer-world-of-rubber-2xlp/#tab-description

Yeah, at least give me a digital-only option!

Speaking of vinyl/digital....

Mail order for the two Sunday Painters is open, and the records should go out in the next week or so. Street date of August 28.

Something To Do, originally released 1982 in a run of 500 copies. Now 1000 copies, with a download card that includes the Any Port in a Storm live tape

4th Annual Report, originally released 1985 in a run of 250 copies. Now 1000 copies, with a download card that includes a live, radio show from '82.

Out back in January, was the singles comp LP, In My Dreams, whose tracks are up on YouTube. 500 copies then. 500 more now.

http://whatsyourrupture.bigcartel.com

There's some new audio up on Soundcloud, to the gothy side of their many sounds:

https://soundcloud.com/krazypunx/sunday-painters-something-to-do

https://soundcloud.com/krazypunx/sunday-painters-shattered-lens

Dark Entries make me sad by doing deluxe vinyl-only reissues of things I'd very much buy a legit digital/CD issue of, or even a cheaper vinyl to get shelved immediately while I listen to the music by, uhh, other means.

Though looking at their site maybe it's shipping to the UK which is the main expense when I sigh over their reissues costing £20+ at UK distributors, and I realise the vinyl-only thing must make business sense and I'm basically weird in preferring CDs over vinyl and not really wanting any more physical stuff anyway.

CD's are gross.

Dark Entries usually does very stripped-down vinyl releases with only minimal inserts. Not particularly deluxe! I mean, this recent Second Layer reissue is a double LP for $24.99 in the US, which is pretty good. To get to that price, there's no gatefold, and the insert is a double-sided page. But I see that the Amazon UK price is (converted to dollars) $32. Maybe they need to strike a better distro deal with somebody....Though we get hit pretty hard over here with small-run UK reissues too.

There was a CD for the BART comps, and Josh is hardly some sort of analog purist (and he's well aware of the flaws of vinyl), but I've never asked him about why he doesn't do downloads. It would be nice. Like many people doing reissues, we found it a great way to include interesting material of lesser fidelity. Most pressing plants will support downloads for not too much extra.

With both collector and reissue vinyl being expensive, most music obsessives I know understand the value of a bargain-bin CD. It's often what I find myself buying at record fairs these days....

cds are beautiful

This comes out Friday:

The Underground Youth - Haunted (Fuzz Club)
http://fuzzclub.com/products/pre-order-the-underground-youth-haunted-1
https://youtu.be/DEyjufTCwnM

https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/haunted

Also out tomorrow, Grave Pleasures - Dreamcrash. At least in Europe. I thought all release dates were supposed to be consolidated, but this is a throwback to releasing in the U.S. for either 9/18 or October. Pre-orders are not available at non-import prices, the three YouTube singles can't even be played in the U.S. Ridiculous. I got ahold of a leak and was surprised to hear Matt McNerney (who's other band, Hexvessel, just signed to Century Media) sounding like Ian McCulloch of Echo & The Bunnymen. With members of The Oath, In Solitude and Oranssi Pazuzu, it's interesting to hear them getting not heavier, but more pop, along the lines of Love-era The Cult and similar era Siouxsie. There's still darkness anchored in Joy Division, while maintaining brisk tempos along the lines of Bunnymen's Crocodiles or even the first Editors album. Death rock? Naw, it's poppy psychedelic post-punk, and it's really good!

https://youtu.be/FOPTBAM60SY?list=PLgvWw_0NgAxSqwm7D-mJNZ9nejk7de185

Fastnbulbous, Australian post-punk band Gold Class are releasing their debut album this week, September 4th - that should be right up your street

Stark, brooding and brilliant Gold Class give their debut It’s You the Midas touch
http://hhhhappy.com/stark-brooding-and-brilliant-gold-class-give-their-debut-its-you-the-midas-touch/

Stream Gold Class It’s You (Stereogum Premiere)
http://www.stereogum.com/1827249/stream-gold-class-its-you-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

On their debut album It’s You, Australia’s Gold Class plays like a brilliant post-punk compendium — the jagged yet chiming guitars of Jawbox and Fugazi, the lockstep rhythm section and dreary climes of Gang Of Four and Joy Division, a quavering bellow that bridges the gap between Morrissey and Glenn Danzig. You could throw dozens more references out and most of them would fit; these guys seem to have swallowed up an entire genre’s worth of history and ended up titans of the form.

Gold Class - It's You (Album Stream)
https://soundcloud.com/felte/sets/gold-class-its-you-album-stream
Gold Class’ debut album 'It’s You' will be released via felte (US/UK) & Spunk Records (AUS/NZ)

check the track perverts - the vocalist sounding like Morrissey joining a harsh post-punk band

bandcamp
http://goldclass.bandcamp.com/album/its-you

good news, the album has join gone live on Spotify UK.

Thanks, I've been following them, but wouldn't have known about it until Bandcamp sends an email today. They should send a heads-up sooner!

Lunch - Let Us Have Madness Openly

I was skeptical based on the band's name, the album title, and their promo video (not the one below), but this is quickly becoming a favorite. Label describes them as a mix of Gun Club and Echo and the Bunnymen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW_D1crNksM

https://lunchpdx.bandcamp.com/track/bad-cut

Interesting! Doesn't seem available for purchase thru the Bandcamp page.

Also interesting is that I had no clue the Grave Pleasures was going to be released on Metal Blade. The deal must have just been completed VERY recently, hence the fact that CDs won't be available until November.

Grave Pleasures releases "Dreamcrash" via Metal Blade Records today in the US

Grave Pleasures from Finland have officially released their debut album "Dreamcrash" via Metal Blade Records in the US, and Sony Columbia worldwide. Formed out of the debris of the band Beastmilk - the band that had indie fans, goths, punks and the music press dancing to their highly praised debut album "Climax" in 2013 - Grave Pleasures are taking the concept of the apocalypse one step further.

Watch the brand new video for "New Hip Moon" and order "Dreamcrash" now at metalblade.com/gravepleasures. The album is available digitally now, with CDs to be released on November 13, and vinyl to arrive in early 2016.

Grave Pleasures consists of singer/songwriter Mat McNerney (also of Hexvessel), bassist Valtteri Arino, guitarist/songwriter Linnéa Olsson (The Oath, Sonic Ritual), drummer Uno Bruniusson (In Solitude, Procession) - as well as live and studio session guitarist Juho Vanhanen (Oranssi Pazuzu).

In May of this year, this impressive line-up entered the studio together with award-winning producer Tom Dalgety (Killing Joke, Royal Blood). The result is a complex and feverish set of modern rock songs. Urban tribal rhythms; potent melancholia; raw pop sensibility; irreverent ferociousness - "Dreamcrash" is seductive in its surrealism one minute, and a cold shower of harsh reality the next.

"I am concerned with a total collapse of our dreams", says Mat McNerney. "Hacking out this feverish, frantic and very uninhibited music, it exposes and lays raw some intense emotions. As we get deeper and closer to capturing the spirit of what we set out for this band to be, we are touching some vital nerves. It's getting under the skin, under the flesh."

The Lunch album isn't available to purchase on their own Bandcamp page, but it's available from their label's Bandcamp:

http://massmediarecords.bandcamp.com/album/let-us-have-madness-openly

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-midyear-post-punk-rundown.jpg

Mid-Year Post-Punk Rundown: Grave Pleasures, Algiers, Ought, Lunch + More
http://fastnbulbous.com/mid-year-post-punk-rundown-grave-pleasures-algiers-ought-lunch-more/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/75r8HcPBNdBhzRBvPQIZTQ

this album is rad: http://soundcloud.com/habitualnourishment/sets/positive-energy

new track from Danish post-punk band Lower

Lower - At the Endless Party
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZBGuFoTEc6Yh800KypuHH

this track sounds very 80s - like some aural mix of: Wah (Pete Wylie) / New Model Army / Morrissey / The Jam / The Clash

from the new ep
I'm a Lazy Son... But I'm the Only Son
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/ep/lower/im_a_lazy_son____but_im_the_only_son/

Coolies (New Zealand) on Feeding Tube, and Negative Scanner. Too lazy to see if those have been mentioned above.

Talk about waiting last-minute to announce a release! I'd been looking for news on the Hand Of Dust for months, I didn't even know a title, and now it's coming out next week, Oct 5!

Hand Of Dust - Like Breath Beneath A Veil (Avant!)
http://www.post-punk.com/hand-of-dust-encased-in-amber-song-premiere/

Coolies (New Zealand) on Feeding Tube, and Negative Scanner. Too lazy to see if those have been mentioned above.

― Michael Train, Sunday, 20 September 2015 23:16 (2 weeks ago)

Sweeeeeeet, new Coolies.

Also from NZ: new album from Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing, Scrying In Infirmary Architecture. This Heat/Pere Ubu-ish (+ NZ stuff like Skeptics, and with Coil worldview if not sonics) w/mixed vox; their last two, 2011's Tangiwai & 2013's Eeling, are worth checking out.

https://nervouscurtains.bandcamp.com/

New album Con is sounding totally rad rn

Wonder if I should give Ava Luna another shot (Gang of 4 with some Dirty Projectors mix on first listen)

I was set to see them Sunday, but Protomartyr just cancelled their tour due to another family death.

http://fastnbulbous.com/post-punkgarage-noir-protomartyr-hand-of-dust-kill-west/

Sorry about their family death(s), but am kinda underwhelmed by Protomartyr (who recently got a favorable Washington Post writeup in addition to yours). They sound like they learned post-punk and some early 80s punk in music school, and the singer's voice doesn't do too much for me.

Hopping on the love for Shopping. I saw them last week warming up for Shannon and the Clams and they blew me away. Great songs, playing and stage presence, super fun.

Yeah I just realized Shopping had a new album when I did a post-punk search on RYM last night! Nice surprise.

xp: Re Protomartyr, I can see both sides but the hyperbolic praise (check out the slavering reviews on Sound Opinions (http://soundopinions.org/show/518) where they say the album is like a timeless classic was a bit much. I'm in the middle -- I do find his vocals underwhelming, and Casey is self-deprecating about them, describing them as "being yelled at by a fat guy." But the band and lyrics are top notch.

I like them, but to my ear they sound a like a more polished version of either Disappears or the Ponys from Chicago.

Anything else we should check out from this year? This one I kept forgetting about until last week, and I like it pretty well:

Publicist UK - Forgive Yourself (Relapse)
https://publicistuk.bandcamp.com/

I kind of feel like maybe the Zun Zun Egui album might deserve some coverage here...I really like it, anyways:

https://youtu.be/XpRiNV_DwWw

check out this album:

Cold Showers - Matter of Choice
http://thequietus.com/articles/18521-cold-showers-matter-of-choice-review

Also:

Heat Dust - Heat Dust
https://theflenser.bandcamp.com/album/heat-dust

and. Vision Fortune - Country Music, which isn't on bandcamp but is very post punk

I need to listen to that Cold Showers more -- I really liked their first one but didn't warm to this one immediately. Also should probably listen to the new Soft Moon again since seeing it show up in the Quietus EOY. I wrote it off after one listen but I did love their first one though not the second.

Other somewhat post-punky stuff I've been enjoying this year that I don't think has been mentioned:

Flesh World - The Wild Animals in My Life
https://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/the-wild-animals-in-my-life-lp-lungs-064

Girls Names - Arms Around a Vision (and Zero Triptych single)
https://soundcloud.com/tough-love/girls-names-a-hunger-artist
https://soundcloud.com/tough-love/girls-names-zero-triptych

Cold Beat - Into the Air
https://soundcloud.com/cold-beat-2/outrunning-shadows

Oh, and:

Glue - Ritual demo EP
https://gluejesuschrist.bandcamp.com/releases

Great stuff everyone, thanks! The only ones I'd heard already are Vision Fortune (did not seem post-punk to me). I didn't realize Girls Names had a new one, thanks. I really love Cold Showers, hits the spot where the New Order and Colder albums fail. I like Heat Dust, makes me think of a murkier Protomartyr, while someone else said The Flenser's version of Iceage.

i saw Heat Dust live and they were awesome...made me appreciate the album much, much more

Aside from Savages - Adore Life, which is solid but not earthshaking, not much going on yet.

I was really excited for this, which came out last week:

And Also The Trees - Born Into The Waves

It's pretty subdued, so is taking a while to get a handle on.

Also out last week, this album is more garage noir and art rock, but definitely has post-punk elements, and is by far the best of the year for me of any genre so far:

The Drones - Feelin Kinda Free

def wanna check out the drones album

Many of you are familiar with San Francisco band The Sleepers - Painless Nights (1981) which was reissued on Superior Viaduct a few years back. I'm still waiting to be able to buy FLAC files of that. So vocalist Ricky Williams joined up with Negative Trend's Craig Gray in Toiling Midgets. Andrew Earles' book Gimme Indie Rock included both the Sleepers and the latter's Sea Of Unrest (1982). Highly recommended experimental post-punk, a flip side of Flipper perhaps. They started making their stuff available on Bandcamp lately. Williams OD'd in 1992 and Mark Eitzel actually filled in on vocals for a bit.

https://toilingmidgets.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-unrest

Before anyone says anything, I know that Boomkat has the FLAC here. I guess the exchange rate is better now, so I'll finally pull the trigger: https://boomkat.com/products/painless-nights

couple years old but this reminds me of essential logic's more fanciful moments

https://soundcloud.com/pete-heywoode/peluche-ohio

Spectres - Utopia (Sabotage) - Many bands with this name, this one from Vancouver, third album was out on vinyl previously, out today on Bandcamp.
https://spectresvancouver.bandcamp.com/album/utopia

A bit late to the party, but the Ought album from last year has continued to grow on me.

is this the thread i can talk about BLURT

Or at least honk if you like Blurt

The Foster Body album (Moving Display) is pretty great. Sounds at times like God and the State.

Salt Lake City art-punk.

https://fosterbody.bandcamp.com/track/touching-moving

Man I love that Sleepers album. I always wondered if Ricky Williams was an influence on Craig Wedren of Shudder to Think - such unique voices, both of them. Will check out this Toiling Midgets now - thank you.

Drangsal - Harieschaim - I heard this when it came out in April on Spotify but forgot about it because I haven't been able to buy it for a sane price yet. Fairly catchy and melodic, keyboards but also nice guitar playing from this new German band.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6j7RS60COoYoFy0PXj3aBc

Eagulls - Ullages - Second album from Leeds band. I liked but didn't love their self-titled 2014 debut. This one is a bit darker, lots of Cure, Chameleons, Comsat Angels influence.
http://www.partisanrecords.com/artists/eagulls/

New Lola Colt single. I'm more excited for Twist Through The Fire Jul 1 than anything right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_s2nakjoNw

Also mentioned in the reissue thread, there's a new Blue Orchids album coming via Pledge Music (77 days left), The Once And Future Thing. There's also a double live CD, Martin Bramah reissue and compilation LP on offer. For those of you who don't know, Bramah was an original member of The Fall, and they carved a nice little psychedelic post-punk niche for themselves on some early 80s singles and The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain) (1982). Spread the word, this is only at 33% of goal!

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/blueorchids

Male Gaze - King Leer (Castle Face)
http://fastnbulbous.com/male-gaze-king-leer/
Preoccupations - Preoccupations (Jagjaguwar) - Former Viet Cong
The Lucid Dream - Compulsion Songs (Holy How Are You)
VUM - Cryptocrystalline (Secret Lodge)
Traitrs - Rites & Ritual (Pleasance)
http://www.pleasencerecords.com/releases/Rites%20and%20Ritual
The Monochrome Set - Cosmonaut (Tapete)
Moscow Circus - Resounding (Echolocation)
Merchandise - A Corpse Wired For Sound (4AD)

Motorama - Dialogues (Talitres) - Russian post-punk, early Chameleons, Felt, Joy D, Oct 21
http://shop.talitres.com/products/576739-dialogues

Has this site been mentioned/linked here? Awesome:

http://fytini.com/filtig/ppodd_cake/index/show/char:A

^that's fucking cool, thank you!

Nice 1979 post punk from Russia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xle4KXGwGlk

http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-16/#breakdown

A special expanded list just for you guys:

01. Wovenhand – Star Treatment
02. Savages – Adore Life
03. Male Gaze – King Leer
04. And Also The Trees – Born Into The Waves
05. The Eternals – Espiritu Zombi
06. Preoccupations – Preoccupations
07. Suns Of Thyme – Cascades
08. Melt Yourself Down – Last Evenings On Earth
09. Marching Church – Telling It Like It Is
10. VUM – Cryptocrystalline
11. Jenny Besetzt – Tender Madness
12. VHS – Gift Of Life
13. Las Kellies – Friends And Lovers
14. Traitrs – Rites & Ritual
15. Eagulls – Ullages
16. Motorama – Dialogues
17. Bonfire Nights – Entopica Phenomica
18. Virus – Memento Collider
19. RA – Then I Woke Up In Paradise EP
20. Mall Walk – Funny Papers
21. The Gotobeds – Blood // Sugar // Secs // Traffic
22. Ukandanz – Awo
23. Flasher – Flasher EP
24. Young Docteurs – Beginning At The End
25. E – E
26. Teksti-TV 666 – 1,2,3
27. Suuns – Hold/Still
28. Esben And The Witch – Older Terrors
29. Spoilers – Anti Vibe
30. Spectres – Utopia
31. DIIV – Is The Is Are
32. Merchandise – A Corpse Wired For Sound
33. FEWS – Means
34. Drangsal – Harieschaim
35. The Monochrome Set – Cosmonaut
36. Moscow Circus – Resounding
37. White Lies – Friends
38. Omni – Deluxe
39. The Hecks – The Hecks
40. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkeybirds – La Arana Es La Vida
41. Masquerade – Ritual
42. Pill – Convenience
43. Muscle And Marrow – Love
44. New Model Army – Winter
45. Koban – Abject Obsessions
46. Exploded View – Exploded View
47. The KVB – Of Desire
48. Terminal Gods – Wave / Form
49. Alaric – End Of Mirrors
50. Eliot Sumner – Information

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/0uQ6AdNa6ABcBSdzwh4sy8

I like that Marching Church album. Much better than the firt one. This Soft Kill album is nice too.

Holy crap, there was a Las Kellies album out this year???

Also very curious abput the Kid Congo album. Doing God's work, FnB.

A couple more:

Harry Howard and the NDE - Sleepless Girls
https://harryhowardandthende.bandcamp.com/

Kim Salmon - My Script
https://kimsalmon.bandcamp.com/album/my-script

Harry Howard toured and wrote with the Birthday Party, Crime & the City Solution and These Immortal Souls. Rowland S. was his brother. Kim Salmon is from The Scientists and Beasts Of Bourbon.

i may wind up having to nom that glintshake record for eoy myself. also good is the vnutrennee sgoranie as far as eastern post-punk goes.

oh, and the last decorum single, "near gone", that's probably going to go on my "songs" ballot.

I really like that Vnutrennee Sgoranie album from this year.

Yeah this is great. Rough translations of the title and songs:

ГШ (Glintshake) - ОЭЩ МАГЗИУ (Sez Store)
https://glintshake.bandcamp.com/album/-

1 - Sculpture
2 - Shadow
3 - My New Style
4 - Squalor
5 - Hands - A Former Leg
6 - Poluchelovek
7 - A Quarter To Five
8 - Be Human
9 - Phoenix

Vnutrennee Sgoranie Sebyaboyazn
https://sgoranie.bandcamp.com/album/sebyaboyazn-2

1 - Extremes
2 - Mr.
3 - Intelligent Corpse
4 - Cutting Off Excess
5 - I'm On This Earth
6 - It's Over All (Nothing's Sacred)
7 - I Bitch Jesus
8 - Orange Splendor Lesov
9 - Girl and The Echo
10 - Podlicom
11 - We
12 - Not Yet

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).

Random googling of Soybelman-related product led me to this, which I think I need in my life:

https://youtu.be/gANuerKFv9U

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/

Idles
Brutalism
(Balley Records)
Release Date: 3/10/2017 / Mid June for Vinyl
Formats: 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.

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.

"1049 Gotho" is just fucking perfect!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Ul9qokho4

i like it

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

it's very mclusky

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

great video starring their bass player

ok yes I like this very much

Told ya!

I hear a bit of Girl Band in there as well...

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

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...)

Wall
Untitled
(Wharf Cat Records)
Release Date: 4/28/2017
Formats: 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/4Ufl5qNKBfh2BsgNvUP5O8
http://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,

This is pretty good. I guess it's noise psych, but feels pretty post-punk to me:

The Gluts - Estasi
https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/estasi

Looking forward to this:

Algiers - The Underside Of Power (Matador) June 23

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

Dammit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rinFWMZUGE&t=1s

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 like Sneaks. Didn't realize they have a new one already.

feeling like clearance (from chicago) should be here. does anybody like them?

sounds a lot like the embarrassment !

https://clearance.bandcamp.com/

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.

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"

I really like the songs for the upcoming Chai Khat album:
https://youtu.be/hM5WbNzRUCI
https://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-truly
https://modemoderne.bandcamp.com/track/dazzling-dreams-2
https://modemoderne.bandcamp.com/track/moderne-love-2
https://modemoderne.bandcamp.com/track/doomy-daydream

crack open a room temperature Hansen's and get into these flat-style worms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISN3oz_94bE

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

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.

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

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 & Hardcore
Punk 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) | Buy
4. Wet Lips – Wet Lips (Hysterical)
5. H.Grimace – Self Architect (Opposite Number) | Buy
6. Protomartyr – Relatives In Descent (Domino)
7. Cable Ties – Cable Ties (Poison City)
8. B Boys – Dada (Captured Tracks)
9. Grave Pleasures – Motherblood (Century Media) | Buy
10. Drab Majesty – The Demonstration (Dais)
11. Orion – Orion (Cool Death/Paradise Daily)
12. INVSN – The Beautiful Stories (Dine Alone) | Buy
13. 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) | Buy
22. 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) | Buy
38. Idles – Brutalism (Balley)
39. Code Orange – Forever (Roadrunner)
40. Converge – The Dusk In Us (Epitaph)

Awkward semi-self promotion:
https://vukovarbrutalisthouse.bandcamp.com/album/the-clockwork-dance

Maybe wise to start with this single.

Nice Swiss post punk

https://maraudeur.bandcamp.com/album/maraudeur-2

And North Carolina:

https://acidetchrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/macho-city

And Germany, though this was 9/16

https://pisse.bandcamp.com/album/kohlr-benwinter

That Downtown Boys album is excellent. Produced by Guy Picciotto!

17. Bonnie Doon – Dooner Nooner (Bonnie Doon)

Ahhh I know them sorta! Cool band, cool album.

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

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

Good call on French Vanilla!

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 - Slowdive
Sally Dige - Holding On
The Horrors - V
Algiers - The Underside of Power
Desperate Journalist - Grow Up
Second Still - Second Still
Pawns - The Gallows
Egrets On Ergot - Surfeit of Gemütlich
Amanda Palmer and Edward Ka-Spel - I Can Spin A Rainbow
Boy Harsher - Country Girl EP

Honorable mentions:

Choir Boy - Sunday Light
Gary Numan - Savage (Songs From A Broken World)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - The Punishment of Luxury
Death Bells - Standing at the Edge of the World
Glaare - To Deaf a Day
Bootblacks - Fragments
Azar Swan - Savage Exile
Ride - Weather Diaries
Die Selektion - Deine Stimme Ist Der Ursprung Jeglicher Gewalt
Odonis Odonis - No Pop
Martial Canterel - Lost At Sea
The Iron Oak - Dune Messiah
Veil of Light - Front Teeth
Death of Lovers - The Acrobat
Sextile - Albeit Living
Multiple Man - New Metal

My Favorite Post-Punk Albums of 2017

1 Idles - Brutalism (Balley)
2 Anwar Sada​t - Ersa​tz Livi​ng (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)

Haha awesome!

https://youtu.be/qGREPm3SAFw

Shopping ‘s Edwin Collins produced album is ok in a Au Pairs kinda way. They’re doing some US gigs with French Vanilla

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) | Bandcamp
Frigs - Basic Behaviour (Arts & Crafts) | Bandcamp
Shame - Songs Of Praise (Dead Oceans) | Bandcamp
Neon Lights - A Slice Of Life (ACNL) | Bandcamp
Monochrome Set - Maisieworld (Tapete) | Buy
Dreamweapon - SOL (Fuzz Club) | Bandcamp
Mamuthones - Fear On The Corner (Rocket) | Bandcamp
Ought - Room Inside The World (Merge) | Bandcamp
The 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

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.

Whoa- I didn't know there was a new Ought out.

you you you you ought to know

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/releases
https://moaning.bandcamp.com/releases
https://snapeau.bandcamp.com/
https://edschradersmusicbeat.bandcamp.com/
https://voxlowparis.bandcamp.com/
https://criminalbody.bandcamp.com/releases
https://wharfcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-else
https://windatlas.bandcamp.com/album/an-edible-body

The new Ought is an interesting step forward for them. The vocalist has mostly ditched the sneering nasal tone and gone for full-throated Morrissey/Robert Smith histrionics - in a good way. The production is tasteful and suits the songs. Enjoying it so far.

Bambara - Shadow On Everything

https://bambara.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-on-everything

Looks like they've been around for 10 years or so but hadn't heard of these guys before. Really like their new album on first listen -- heavy Bad Seeds / These Immortal Souls / Crime + City Solution vibes.

Out today:

L.A.'s Second Still, who debuted last year with S/T full length, have two EPs. Part Time Punks is live in studio, including a For Against cover.
https://secondstill.bandcamp.com/album/equals-ep
https://secondstill.bandcamp.com/album/part-time-punks-session

Heads - Collider (May 4)
https://corpseflowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/heads-collider-2

Iceage - Beyondless (May 4)
http://smarturl.it/Beyondless

LIINES - Stop-Start (May 4)
https://liines.bandcamp.com/album/stop-start

Wax Idols - Happy Ending (May 16)
https://waxidols.bandcamp.com/album/happy-ending

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs (Jun 15)
https://rollingblackoutscoastalfever.bandcamp.com/

LIINES? are you kidding me with this? Jesus.

Perhaps the great reissues of The Lines on your label inspired them to bite the name!

Speaking of For Against, there's 16 days left in their Pledge campaign for the 90s albums reissues, and are just at 64% of goal. I hate to see it fail!

https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/foragainst

Or the other band that called themselves the Lines.

I was looking for a thread on Ought but this will do. I loved this band's first album, hated the second one and I think I like this one so far. All told, I'm starting to think of them as a sort of post-punk tribute band who change who they're being each album.

First album = Television
Second album = The Fall
Third album = The Cure

Even the singer seems to change his style so drastically I wonder if they've replaced him

It's the same singer, but he's singing a lot in a different register that he didn't use as much on the previous album. I've never heard the first album - I should rectify that - but I liked the 2nd album a lot, and I like the 3rd one too. They still do that thing were the refrain is a jarring contrast from the verses, or the song detours into another whole weird part half-way through, however the songs seem more cohesive to me this time out, though maybe also a bit less frenetic. They sort of remind me of lots of British post-punk bands in a vague and non-specific way.

I'm really starting to fall in love with the Ought album. I found the second album a bit messy and disappointing but this one is so passionate and full of little details. they're turning into fantastic songwriters and the singer has is extremely diverse. starting to turn into AOTY for me

I've now decided to listen to it on shuffle with the other albums and it's clearly their best one. The songwriting is much more finely-tuned and Darcy comes across as a hugely convincing and talented frontman.

Having never heard them before, I came across this on your fb. Thought it was Scott Walker singing at first! This is really good.

Yes it's very Scott Walker in places

I'm glad I caught your recommendation, it's really good. 'Take Everything' is a standout track on first listen.

I like These Three Things - some welcome electronic textures on that one

Fotocrime - Principle Of Pain
https://fotocrime.bandcamp.com/album/principle-of-pain

Weathered Statues - Borderlands
https://weatheredstatues1.bandcamp.com/album/borderlands

Criminal Code - 2534
https://derangedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/2534

Peluché's album is out tomorrow. A very ODYSHAPE vibe. Here's the single, released earlier this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJNKO9XsurM

Weirdo rock from Orange county:

https://thegardenmusic.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-might-steal-your-charm

sorry if this has been mentioned:

https://exek.bandcamp.com/album/ahead-of-two-thoughts

Can't stop listening to this The Garden album. Sort of like if early Ween smoked less pot and listened to Ariel Pink and Tune-yards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM7-RXWp3Q8

that's good. new to me. just bought it all on bandcamp. thanks.

I think I just bought 2 eps and then an LP that compiles those two eps. Ooops. All digital though.

LP out in north america on Deranged

their videos are all nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6VHmmZrIDk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy-RdU088to

I dunno does this belong here? Somewhere between UK DIY, post-punk and no wave (mostly in the guitars). Loving this right now.

http://lithics.bandcamp.com/

Ya, Lithics got some love in one of the year-end lists, forget which.

Bambara - Shadow On Everything (I may have mentioned this earlier as it's been in rotation all year. Interestingly Idles' Joe Talbot talked them up in MOJO as his favorite album of the year, "[Singer/lyricist] Reid Bateh brings this savage realism but the noir-ish depth of the music takes you away on Birthday Party-type vibes. I just love everything they do - and I think they're one of the best live acts I've ever seen. They're from Atlanta, Georgia but based in Brooklyn. They're violent and passionate, interested and interesting and good-looking, and they're much cooler than we are.")
ГШ (Glintshake) - Польза (Benefit) (Russian post-punk. They've toyed with some avant prog, and this too has a few sprawling tracks at 8:14 to 12:41)
C.C.T.V. - Season Finale EP (Indiana art punk/post-punk band, third EP features Jerky Boys style radio bits.)
Body Type - Body Type EP (Melbourne jangly garage pop/punk)
Neurotic Fiction - Pulp Music (UK jangly pop/punk)
Spiritual Cramp - Television (San Francisco chaotic post-hardcore art rock, Deranged compiled their EPs and recent single. I saw them earlier this year, amazing. Admire the tambourine player's total commitment)
ILL - We Are ILL (whacky Manchester psychedelic post-punk)
L.A. Witch - Octubre EP (garage punk noir)
Public Practice - Distance Is A Mirror EP (NY, members of WALL)
Ganser - Odd Talk (Chicago energetic post-punk)
180dB - "Road Trip" single (Savages' Ayşe Hassan & Fay Milton with guests Meredith Graves of Perfect Pussy and Nick Zinner. WANT MORE)

Crack Cloud, Color TV and Sore Points are all interesting entries in the Deranged catalog, but I like Spiritual Cramp the most by far.

I eventually got the Peluché album and while they don't seem to self-identify as post-punk ("trip-jam"? that's new to me), I do hear some Raincoats. Very nice! Speaking of Raincoats influence, Bas Jan has another take on the sound, which I also noted in the year-end thread per the Drift list (#63 Bas Jan - Yes I Jan). They also released a new EP on Friday that already shows them evolving.

https://lostmap.bandcamp.com/album/instant-nostalgia

Pill's new album didn't hit me as much as the first one but it's pretty good

lithics is great

BTW, the C.C.T.V. EP doesn't seem to be available anywhere other than YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEDB12x09o4

I'm spending more time with Ought again. Is that still a big favorite for those who were discussing it earlier in the year? It has been growing on me. I'm hearing some Dismemberment Plan in places.

I have concluded that I enjoy the following 2018 post-punk releases:

Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
Iceage - Beyondless
Preoccupations - New Material
The Skull Defekts - The Skull Defekts

I still like the Ought a lot. It's up there with The Garden and Vital Idles for me.

Punk, Post-Punk & Hardcore

1. Bambara – Shadow On Everything
2. The Native Cats – John Sharp Toro
3. Bas Jan – Yes I Jan
4. Santa Librada – Santa Librada
5. Dream Wife – Dream Wife
6. Viagra Boys – Street Worms
7. Ought – Room Inside The World
8. ILL – We Are ILL
9. Iceage – Beyondless
10. LITHICS – Mating Surfaces
11. Glintshake – Benefit
12. Shopping – The Official Body
13. Spiritual Cramp – Television
14. LIINES – Stop-Start
15. Public Practice – Distance Is A Mirror EP
16. The Common Cold – Shut Up! Yo Liberals!
17. The Native Cats – Spiro Scratch EP
18. Bas Jan – Instant Nostalgia EP
19. Idles – Joy As An Act Of Resistance
20. Bodega – Endless Scroll
21. Flasher – Constant Image
22. C.C.T.V. – Season Finale EP
23. Preoccupations – New Material
24. Ganser – Odd Talk
25. Second Still – Equals EP
26. Esben And The Witch – Nowhere
27. Girls Names – Stains On Silence
28. Mock Identity – Paradise
29. Dumb – Seeing Green
30. Drug Church – Cheer

31. Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams
32. The Aints – The Church Of Simultaneous Existence
33. Big Kizz – Music Is Magic
34. Spiritual Cramp – Police State EP
35. GØGGS – Pre Strike Sweep
36. The Ex – 27 Passports
37. Hashteroid – Hashteroid
38. Teksti-TV 666 – Aidattu Tulevaisuus
39. High Priests – Spinning
40. Little Ugly Girls – Little Ugly Girls
41. Heads. – Collider
42. EXEK – Ahead Of Two Thoughts
43. Liars – TWTWF
44. Frigs – Basic Behaviour
45. The Pier – Dead Reckoning
46. Fotocrime – Principle Of Pain
47. Patois Counselors – Proper Release
48. Motorama – Many Nights
49. The Tropes – Bottom Of The Ocean
50. Snape – Always
51. Exploded View – Obey
52. Hank Wood And The Hammerheads – Hank Wood And The Hammerheads EP
53. Vertigo – V2
54. The Number Ones – Another Side Of The Number Ones EP
55. Shiny Darkly – Bronze
56. VOWWS – Under The World
57. NONN – XVII
58. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
59. Sierpien – Renovation
60. Interpol – Marauder
61. Weathered Statues – Borderlands
62. Nopes – Stapler
63. Damagers – Victory EP
64. The Soft Moon – Criminal
65. Rotten Mind – Fading Into Oblivion
66. Bush Tetras – Take The Fall EP
67. Shame – Songs Of Praise
68. Neon Lights – A Slice Of Life
69. mewithoutYou – Untitled
70. Hot Snakes – Jericho Sirens
71. Blue Orchids – Righteous Harmony Fist
72. FACS – Negative Houses
73. The Lovely Eggs – This Is Eggland
74. Ed Schrader’s Music Beat – Riddles
75. Criminal Code – 2534
76. Single Mothers – Through A Wall
77. Deaf Wish – Lithium Zion
78. The Nightingales – Perish The Thought
79. Bellini – Before The Day Has Gone
80. Damager – Damagers EP
81. Datenight – Comin Atcha’ 100MPH
82. The Interrupters – Fight The Good Fight
83. Crack Cloud – Crack Cloud
84. Wax Idols – Happy Ending
85. The Hirs Collective – Friends. Lovers. Favorites
86. The Neighborhood Brats – Claw Marks
87. Iron Lamb – Blue Haze
88. Septic Tank – Rotting Civilisation
89. Moaning – Moaning
90. Bitch Hawk – Joy
91. Gouge Away – Burnt Sugar
92. The Armed – Only Love
93. Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
94. VoX LoW – VoX LoW
95. Drunk Mums – Denim EP
96. Bitch Hawk – Bitch Hawk
97. Dreamweapon – SOL
98. Mamuthones – Fear On The Corner
99. The Love Coffin – Cloudlands
100. Color TV – Color TV

I like punk rock :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulx9JCMnLdQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi7tfV-hZJE&t=184s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi7tfV-hZJE

I added a coupl things:

Mode Moderne – Mode IV: Mode Moderne had a sneak release, compiling the singles they issued on Bandcamp last year. The singles are no longer available on Bandcamp, but you can buy the CD, LP or downloads in the link below. Also, it’s the best jangly Smiths inspired music I’ve heard since The Sea Kings in 2014.
Temple Of Angels – Foiled EP

http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-18/#punk

Here's a tracks playlist. Happy Holidaze!

https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/2sa1BiUkgRFmstcy6T8bYq?si=FbFQwMWTS4u1vmuFzHl12Q

https://n0v3l.bandcamp.com/album/novel-2

I like the Mode Moderne. Thanks. I hear Smiths and also hints of New Romantic bands on some tracks.

N0V3L is great, look forward to the album release!

Got tipped to these Chinese bands via NPR's Viking's Choice podcast:

Lonely Leary – Through the Park, Almost There (Maybe Mars)
https://idlesband.bandcamp.com/album/joy-as-an-act-of-resistance

P.K. 14 – What We Talk About When We Talk About His Name (Maybe Mars)
https://downloads.maybemars.org/album/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-his-name

Sorry, correct Lonely Leary link:
https://downloads.maybemars.org/album/through-the-park-almost-there

If anyone wants to dig into P.K. 14, the Steve Albini-recorded 1984 (2013) and City Weather Sailing (2008) are available for cheaper via Tenzenmen:

https://tenzenmen.bandcamp.com/album/1984
https://tenzenmen.bandcamp.com/album/city-weather-sailing

Ned did this piece on P.K. 14 a couple years ago:

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/08/22/pk14-interview-chinese-indie-rock/

As usual, I continued to make discoveries through the holidaze.

Rosegarden Funeral Party – The Chopping Block EP
Temple Of Angels – Foiled EP - Both of these are very promising, gothy bands from Austin. Is there a Batcave type of focal point there these days? I'm overdue to visit.
https://moonsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-chopping-block
https://downloads.maybemars.org/album/through-the-park-almost-there

The Common Cold – Shut Up! Yo Liberals! - With members of The Fall and Cornershop, literary lyrics and some psych and kosmische, as interesting as I hoped.
https://thecommoncoldpreston.bandcamp.com/releases

Hotlips Messiah – Disco Miscarriage - This is a sprawling double album of gritty, unruly punk. Some songs are new, others go back 20 years (I can't believe it's already been 12 years since Traci Trouble joined) but are newly recorded. They're focusing on a somewhat pricey vinyl package including a full size blacklight poster, which is great if you're a longtime fan, but I've tried to convince them to offer a friendlier priced Bandcamp dl for newcomers. Will update if they do so.
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/hotlipsmessiah22

Constant Mongrel – Living In Excellence - Sax 'n' synth adorned UK post-punk cites Les Rallizes Dénudés, Youth Crew Hardcore, The Fall, Wire. Listening again right now, I'm liking them more and more, need to spend more time with Heavy Breathing (2013) too.
https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/living-in-excellence

Full Bush – Full Bush - Scrappy debut from Philly punks.
https://fullbush.bandcamp.com/album/full-bush

Child’s Pose – Child’s Pose EP - Members from a variety of London punk bands like Sauna Youth, catchy stuff.
https://nervousenergyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/childs-pose-s-t

safespace – Keep Quiet - Tuneful post-punk with some 90s indie influences, from Chicago.
https://safespace.bandcamp.com/releases

Dark Thoughts – At Work - Best Ramones influenced punk now that Diarrhea Planet are gone. Short and concise!
https://dark-thoughts.bandcamp.com/album/at-work

Destroy Boys – Make Room - From Sacramento, I don't know much about 'em yet, but their second album has grown on me quickly.
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Room-Explicit-Destroy-Boys/dp/B07J37HXFW/

Alice Bag – Blueprint - From the legendary L.A. punk band the Bags, this is her second solo album.
https://alicebag.bandcamp.com/album/blueprint-2

Self Defense Family – Have You Considered Punk Music - Took me a bit to get into, vocalist Patrick Kindlon is also in Drug Church.
https://selfdefensefamily.bandcamp.com/album/have-you-considered-punk-music

False Tracks – Down There EP - Another promising Philly garage punk band.
https://falsetracks.bandcamp.com/album/down-there

Eat-Man – Eat-Man EP - So many Melbourne bands this year, another winner. Hairspray punk!
https://eat-man.bandcamp.com/album/eat-man-ep

Stiff Love – Trouble EP - Very basic garage punk from Olympia, WA, I was won over and bought all their stuff (just two EPs and a single).
https://stifflove.bandcamp.com/album/trouble

I got The Common Cold album, it's a great manic ride. If you dig it, look into Donkey from the 90s and Bent Moustache from 07-11.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guunLrh0lQ8

6 Music have the Snapped Ankles single on heavy rotation and I have really come around to it, though I can't help feeling it could do with a two-minute edit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edLWLDguJa4

rebarbative morelike

I am revisiting the Preoccupations album from 2016 and finding it way better than I remembered

https://youtu.be/VPot32rD_3M

Peruvian dancepunkers Liquidarlo Celuloide just released a new album, Anamnesis, produced by Killing Joke frontman, Jaz Coleman. On first listen, I...don't quite like it as much as their 2017 effort, Superfriccion--it feels like a lot of the wild & woolly noise of that album has been tamed a little, and first track "Asfixia" is way too much of a meh thing (though I'd bet it slams live). Still: lots of cool GVSB-style post-punk to be found here and the last track is shockingly decent for a ten-minute workout

Full album here:

https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/br130-liquidarlo-celuloide-anamnesis

Described by The Wire Magazine as “a band designed to create a ritualistic experience based on hard grooves”, Liquidarlo Celuloide is of the most representative bands from Peru’s experimental rock scene, with an unclassifiable sound that’s a byproduct of krautrock, no wave, post punk and dance music. Active from 2003, the band’s evolution has been charted over the course of 9 records.

Their last album, “Anamnesis”, was released digitally on february 28th 2020, with an impending vinyl release via Buh Records. It was produced by Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman, and it follows 2017’s “Superfricción”, an album with great critical appraisal both locally and internationally.

Over their career the band has participated in such large scale festivals and shows such as Urbe & Arte (Fundación Wiese), Festival Integraciones (Fundación Telefónica), Lima Indie (Centro Cultural Peruano Japonés), Festival Cultura Libre (Municipalidad de San Isidro), Hatun Tinkuy (Municipalidad de Lima), Ruidismos (Proyecto AMIL) and Festival NRMAL (Mexico City). They’ve also participated in international compilation albums, amongst them The Wire Tapper 39, released by England’s The Wire Magazine, which chose to highlight Liquidarlo Celuloide on a report on the Peruvian experimental scene as a remarkable project.

Liquidarlo Celuloide has shared stages with bands such as Killing Joke (UK), Acid Mothers Temple (Japan), Moon Duo (USA), Pharmakon (USA), Mueran Humanos (Argentina/Germany), Deafkids (Brazil), Rakta (Brazil), amongst many others, and they’ve toured Argentina and Mexico.

Liquidarlo Celuloide’s current lineup is Juan Diego Capurro (keyboards/vocals), Javier Manrique (guitar), Rodolfo Ontaneda (guitar), Giancarlo Rebagliatti (bass guitar) and Alfonso Vargas (drums). see less

new patois counselors and gen pop records are amazing, rock and roll lives

i highly recommend the new chronophage album "th'pig'kiss'd Album"

that is coming to me in the mail, as is a cassette comp of their first two EPs, "prolog for tomorrow" was terrific

the tape: https://propaneexchange.bandcamp.com/album/give-chance-a-peace-summer-singalong-live-9-17-17

wendy eisenberg's power trio editrix is fucking awesome, it sounds like each member is playing a different polvo song backwards

oh hell yeah

My favorite post-punk albums of 2020

1. Strangelight - Adult Themes (Rad Girlfriend Records)
2. Idles - Ultra Mono (Partisan Records)
3. Ötzi - Storm (Artoffact Records)
4. Fotocrime - South of Heaven (Profound Lore)
5. Black Rose Burning - The Year Of The Scorpion (Self-Released)
6. Vincas - Phantasma (Learning Curve Records)
7. Wire - Hive Mind (Pink Flag)
8. Cumgirl8 - Cumgirl8 (Muddguts Records)

Some purists may quibble as to what is post-punk and what isn't. I specifically didn't list She Hates Emotion (who seem more synth-pop) though I probably should have since they remind me of Drab Majesty, who I did list in previous years. I also didn't list The Guilt who are more dance punk, probably. But if we do include them, it makes for a nice top ten.

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