Thirst, originally released in 1981 is a stone-cold post-punk classic. While still retaining the sharp experimental edge of their debut, White Souls in Black Suits, Thirst stretches out and offers up some cleaner and more hooky moments as it moves away from pure improvisation. “Between White Souls and Thirst, the guitarist changed from David Hammond […]
Following the success of 2025’s first Singles Live compilation, Popstock Records present The Fall: Singles Live Vol. Two 1980-83 in association with Bella Union. Commenting on the release Paul Hanley says: “In marked contrast to Singles Vol. One this compilation showcases an altogether more stable line-up – the one that recorded Hex Enduction Hour to […]
For fans of moody guitars, cinematic melodies and timeless post-punk anthems, this week’s stop at Denver’s Mission Ballroom…
Green World Image is the second album and Sub Pop debut of spirited post-punk revivalists Telehealth, a group that build on both the sound and subversion of acts like Devo and the B-52s while updating subject matter for the 2020s. Launched from the Seattle music scene by married couple Alexander Attitude and Kendra Cox, Telehealth […]
Cola always felt like a comedown. By the time Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy’s previous band, Ought, came to an end in 2021, the Montreal group had morphed from nervy, scrappy post-punk to grandiose art rock. Cola, formed with drummer Evan Cartwright, shifted to something stark and simple with the terse indie rock of their […]
The basic elements of This House’s sound will be familiar to anyone who followed G.W. Sok’s career before. A furious clangor of box-y drums, barbed wire guitar play and hoarse, poetic shouted lyrics all point towards the Ex, the long-running art-punk band that Sok left in 2008. His partner, Ignacio Córdoba, adds electronics here, in […]
From the very first note, Modern Woman make it clear they play by their own rules, fusing post-punk grit with bold, experimental flair. Their debut EP, Dogs Fighting in My Dream (2021), hinted at brilliance, and their 2023 stream-of-consciousness single “Achtung” cemented it. You might have wondered whether that brilliance could carry over to a […]
If you could distill the guiding philosophy of Robber Robber’s second album down to a single word, it would be the one that appears about a minute into “Avalanche Sound Effect”: “upend.” With a frenetic, trash-can-clanging backbeat ricocheting behind her, singer and guitarist Nina Cates calmly repeats that word as if reciting her daily-affirmation mantra, […]
Liberation Hall delivers a compelling archival release with Live ’81–’85, a double LP celebrating the legacy of Romeo Void for Record Store Day. The collection presents the band in its natural habitat on stage capturing performances across Ann Arbor, Albany, London, and Berlin. The album functions as both a time capsule and a reaffirmation of […]
Why it’s volume two from the Rotting Tapes series that’s being given a vinyl reissue, rather than volumes one, three or four is anybody’s guess, but why not? All four tapes contained two tracks each, all were recorded live in Tokyo in the first half of 1982, and all feature the duo Michio Kadotani (1959-1990, […]
Released at the end of the initial period of Wire’s 3rd Act – after Aend and before the band’s post-Bruce Gilbert re-invention – Read & Burn 03 never quite got the attention it deserved. However the opening track 23 years too late, with its tour narrative text and motorik rhythm stands as one of the […]
The most exciting and terrifying parts of dreams (or nightmares) are the ones we recognize. Familiar fragments collide and reassemble into something strange. Things we thought we knew are turned upside down or ripped apart and sewn together backwards. That unnerving thrill – the shiver of recognition followed by disorientation – is at the core […]
…What makes ‘Rare & Deadly’ truly unprecedented is that every format tells a different story. The CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital editions each feature their own unique tracklisting, a fractured release strategy that is almost unheard of. No single version contains the “complete” album. A Place to Bury Strangers return with Rare and Deadly, a […]
The lyrics for Diagonale des Yeux’s debut album were written in the style of an exquisite corpse game, with members Laurène Exposito and Théo Delaunay taking it in turns to patch together ephemeral thoughts and themes in a mix of French, German, English and Spanish. The bizarre, multilingual stories that emerged match the French duo’s […]
A Place to Bury Strangers return with Rare and Deadly, a collection of ‘B-sides, abandoned experiments and forgotten fragments’, pulled from front man Oliver Ackerman’s “personal archive of late night recordings, blown out tapes and half finished sessions”. It is their first full-length release since 2024’s Synthesizer, and given the consistency of the sound and […]
It’s taken Sealed records more than five years to put this release together but finally it’s here. The one and only Bikini Mutants. The Bikini Mutants were from Yeovil, Somerset and part of the All the Madmen world. In their short life as a band they recorded two demos at Monitor Studios, Milborne Port in […]
…features the original album as well as sessions, B-sides, a live show from the time and a complete disc of demos from Chapel Studios. Having exorcised enough bile for two bands on their rickety release Interim, The Fall loosen up their attitude, tighten up their delivery, and squeeze out a rocking album that relies heavily […]
The “post-tour musings” album should be a privilege to make. It typically arrives a few years and releases into an artist’s career — that is, if they’ve been fortunate enough to be able to go out on the road. This is the very moment we find the Chicago-based trio, Stuck, in now. Off the back […]
It’s instructive that The Twilight Sad’s first album since reducing to founding duo James Graham and Andy MacFarlane yields the most powerful version of the band’s cathartic soundworld. Perhaps the subject matter helped: It’s The Long Goodbye documents Graham losing his mother to dementia while simultaneously becoming a father, a real-life crossroads detailed with unsettling […]
Much has been written about the Transatlantic fallout of punk rock, with every crevice of the era meticulously scanned in the hope of a lost classic. Whilst Circle X’s fractious run, two albums and two EPs, over a span of seventeen years, might not signify complete unknown status to seasoned crate-diggers, their minimal place in […]
Two years on from their ambitious debut, Hysterical Strength, the North Yorkshire-born but now London-based six-piece DEADLETTER return with their sophomore album, Existence Is Bliss. Across twelve tracks, their evolved, multi-layered sound underpins lyrics that explore what it means to truly live, rather than merely exist, in an increasingly tumultuous world where life can be […]
Backtracking a bit from previously issued volumes of the series, Musik Music Musique 1979: The Roots of Synth Pop functions as a sort of prequel, mapping out the blueprint of the new wave revolution of the ’80s, from synth-heavy post-punk and art rock to some of synth pop’s earliest chart-toppers. It’s not as if electronic […]
30th anniversary remaster. Included is a second disc with 7 bonus tracks from the era, some unreleased, some remixes and reinterpretations. It’s been observed that while the bleeding edge of what’s cool continues onward, there are always plenty of people still exploring styles long deemed outdated, sometimes finding something new and exciting as a result. […]
Holyoke, Massachusetts post-punk outfit Landowner aren’t the type to sit still. Their sound is agitated and animated, their relentless rippers rife with taut basslines, manic shouts and wiry guitar riffs. And, fittingly for a band that’s always in motion, they’ve returned with another new album, Assumption, which is out via Exploding in Sound, and rife […]
It’s a great time to be an indie band making anything that sounds post-punk. Dry Cleaning and Black Country, New Road have outlasted their initial hype cycles and begun chugging toward longevity. Geese have invited a stunning amount of breathless adulation from prestige media who were indifferent to indie rock five seconds ago. Poptimism’s cultural […]
Ceremony returns with their thrilling new live album, Live at the Hollywood Palladium. Relapse Records drops the live album on February 24th, 2026 – marking the 2 year anniversary of the band’s hallmark performance to the very day with this special release. The album sees the seminal punk/hardcore band headlining at The Palladium in Los […]
A l’heure de la vague Cold Oi! et du désarroi européen, réécoutons l’incantation puissante de Kirk Brandon, grand prédicateur des groupes post-punk The Pack et Theatre of Hate.
Black Doldrums’ set at the 2025 Fuzz Club Festival is being immortalised on wax with this super-limited live album release. The London-based band founded by Kevin Gibbard and Sophie Landers fall somewhere between dark neo-psych intensity and gothic post-punk melancholy that’s all the more powerful live on stage. Their first appearance at the Fuzz Club […]