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Maraudeur on Their New Album Flaschenträger: "I Think Our Implicit Goal Was To Catch the Energy That We Have on Stage All Together"
When we last caught up with Maraudeur, they'd just dropped Puissance 4 , a jagged, kitchen-sink post-punk record that proved the Swiss-French group had no interest in playing it straight. Three years later, they're back with its follow-up Flaschenträger (Feel It Records), a live-wired batch of tunes tracked in a Geneva basement and played with the precision that still goes against the current. What started as a solo 4-track experiment has morphed into a six-piece collective
Joe Massaro
Oct 16
From Ghost Stories to the Present Tense: Peering Into Phantasia
From the candlelit shadows of their 2019 demo cassette to the haunted pop reveries of 2022's debut LP Ghost Stories , New York City's...
Joe Massaro
Aug 25
Jett Witchalls of Self Improvement: "I Have a Deep Fear of the White Picket Fence"
On their sophomore album Syndrome , Long Beach's Self Improvement confront the chaos of the present with their tightly wound, politically...
Joe Massaro
May 13
Artificial Go: "'Hopscotch Fever' Was Mostly Visiting Old Demos. 'Musical Chairs' Was a Turning Point of Writing New Songs Together in Present Time, Providing a More Collaborative Sound"
Cincinnati's Artificial Go continues to craft wiry, Dadaist-fueled post-punk with bright tuneful art pop across their new album Musical...
Joe Massaro
May 7
Kilynn Lunsford: "I'm a Perfectionist and That Can Definitely Hinder Projects if You Let It Spiral; I Do Less of That Now That I Don't Feel Obligated to Take Anyone Else's Input Into Account"
Kilynn Lunsford has been defying categorizations since her earlier days of rock 'n' roll from The Dark Places to Little Claw. When the...
Joe Massaro
Apr 15
Gentle Leader XIV: "'Channels' Feels More Ethereal and Sullen, Whereas This New Album Is Darker and Sharper. There's Much More Urgency and Anxiety Flowing Through This Record"
Gentle Leader XIV (jen-tul lee-der ex-ivy) is a post-punk synth-pop band from the ends of Ohio. The Cincinnati-Cleveland trio is...
Joe Massaro
Mar 12
Leopardo: "At First, Our Music Was More Psychedelic Pop and the Lyrics Were All About Love. Now, the Music Has Become Stranger, We Love What’s a Bit Wrong, Out of Tune, Weird"
Leopardo, the well-mannered and quirky Swiss group from Fribourg, are back once again with Side A / Side B , an album that invites the...
Joe Massaro
Mar 7
Puppet Wipes: "We Wanted To Do a Performance Art Thing Like a Couple Troubadours With Pages of Notes and Off-Kilter Singing"
Calgary's Puppet Wipes is the latest sensation of the underground airwaves. The group began as the bedroom pet of Arielle McCuaig and...
Joe Massaro
Feb 27
Sun Cousto: "I Think It Is Still Important for Us That Even Though We Are Only Two Instruments, We Don't Sound Like a Rock Duo"
Earlier in the year, Sun Cousto, the Swiss duo made up of Isumi Grichting and Julie Bugnard, crafted the truly promising and memorable album Imaginary Girls (Chrüsimüsi Records), which builds from gloriously harmonic pop ballads to scrappy punk immediacy engulfed in a pastoral freshness. Compared to 2019's debut LP, Satan And I Walk Under A Rainbow , it's a substantial improvement in production and songwriting, helping the duo identify their long-term trajectory and the unden
Joe Massaro
Dec 20, 2024
Corker: "I Believe We All Understand a Bit More What It Is We Want Out of Being in a Post-Punk Band in the Modern Age"
Corker's particular breed of post-punk is frenetically monochrome, and on their sophomore album, Hallways of Grey (Feel It Records), the...
Sydney Salk
Dec 5, 2024
Naked Roommate: "Motherhood Has Loosened Me Up. I Don't Take the Time I Can Find To Create and Perform for Granted"
Oakland musik collective Naked Roommate's latest album Pass The Loofah retains the wild energy of their 2020 debut, but leans into the...
Joe Massaro
Nov 18, 2024
Shop Regulars: "At First, the Project Was More of a Platform to Release Tapes but Has Since Become an Actual Band"
Shop Regulars, the brainchild of Portland artist Matt Radosevich (formerly of Honey Bucket), released a self-titled LP back in June...
Joe Massaro
Nov 7, 2024
G2G: "People Say Our Band and Music Often Feels Like a Series of In-Jokes or Some Display of Memories of Funny Times We Have Had Together and I Really Think It's True"
G2G unleash gloriously ragged, pep-charged post-punk tunes with a playful pop ingenuity and ramshackle charisma on their long-awaited...
Joe Massaro
Oct 21, 2024
Disintegration: "This Album Is the Best of a Large Chunk of Music We've Been Working on Since We Recorded the First EP"
Envelop yourself in the pounding synth-wave of Disintegration, the Cleveland supergroup of sorts that clarifies their jet black post-punk...
Sydney Salk
Oct 18, 2024
Tube Alloys: "We're Definitely a Band That Does Many Different Things, Which Is Hard To Categorize"
We are watching the rise of Tube Alloys in real-time. The Los Angeles post-punks thrash through colossal tales of online dating and...
Sydney Salk
Oct 15, 2024
Qlowski: "We Experience So Much Pain as People and as a Society, and We're Left With the Wound and Have To Learn How To Deal With It"
Earlier this week, Qlowski threw at us "Desire," the latest dark transmission from their sophomore LP, The Wound . Out November 1st on...
Sydney Salk
Oct 11, 2024
Added Dimensions: "I Think It's Important To Have a Live Version of a Band Anyway That Sounds Different From the Recordings. It Helps Put It All in Context Once You See a Band Play In-Person"
No one holds the perfect balance of sweet and sour like Added Dimensions, the home-recording project of Sarah Everton (Blowdryer,...
Sydney Salk
Oct 9, 2024
PYPY: "The Presence of Synthesizers Sets This Record Apart From Our First One. I'm Curious To See How People Will Appreciate the Mix of Electronic Elements With Garage Music"
Do you like a little funk in your punk? Some boogie to go with your brash? A bit of groove in the garage? PYPY (pronounced like π, the...
Sydney Salk
Oct 3, 2024
Dead Finks: "Lyrically, Our Songs Usually Fall into One of Two Themes; Total Uncertainty to the Point of Near-Dissociation, or Total Certainty to the Point of Near-Delusion"
Dead Finks are back for their third album, Eve of Ascension, and their chilling vision is as clear as ever. Having started in New...
Sydney Salk
Sep 13, 2024
Tropical Fuck Storm: "Everyone Just Conforms Without Knowing They're Doing It. It's Not in My DNA to Do That"
When you're as boundary-pushing as Tropical Fuck Storm, I half expect a live album to mean the band will materialize out from the record...
Sydney Salk
Sep 9, 2024
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