Devin Birse

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Moin - "You Never End" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Nov 14, 2024 | post-trash.com | Devin Birse

by Devin Birse (@devvvvi.b)In the age of endless hype cycles and hot-as-shit new bands with at least three different string instruments, Moin feels more distinct than ever. Even at their inception, they were a unique proposition, the two guys behind the exquisite dark ambient project RAIME but now on guitars and bass with drummer par excellence Valentina Magaletti in the mix to help them crank out hypnotic post-hardcore grooves.
Geordie Greep - "The New Sound" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Oct 14, 2024 | post-trash.com | Devin Birse

by Devin Birse (@devvvvi.b)Geordie Greep’sThe New Sound might just be the great sonic flex of the decade so far. I mean flex here in the most literal sense, a muscle flexing. An exposure of the raw strength possessed but one wrought with tension veins popping, skin stretching. Every aspect of the glistening visage also portrays the painstaking lengths taken to create this moment, this particular movement. This ripple in the flesh.
Xiu Xiu - "13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Sep 26, 2024 | post-trash.com | Devin Birse

by Devin Birse (@devvvvi.b)A quote by Blixa Bargled adorns the opening of Eugene S. Robinson’s bio for Xiu Xiu’s new album, “I did not join a rock and roll band to play rock and roll!”. It seems to summarize the contradictions inherent to Xiu Xiu’s music. The band has always toed the line between pop and experimentalism.
Alive and Screeching: Duane Denison on The Jesus Lizard’s Roaring Return | Feature Interview — POST-TRASH

Sep 19, 2024 | post-trash.com | Devin Birse

by Devin Birse (@devvvvi.b)In the canon of the American underground few bands are as influential and enduring as The Jesus Lizard. Born from the ashes of vocalist David Yow and bassist David Sims' nightmare punk act Scratch Acid with the additions of Duane Denison on guitar and Mac McNeilly on drums, the four-piece pumps out a brilliantly twisted sound.
LICE - "Third Time At The Beach" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Sep 19, 2024 | post-trash.com | Devin Birse

by Devin Birse (@devvvvi.b)With their 2021 debut, Wasteland: What Ails Our People is Clear,LICE created an album that ate itself. It was a dense slab of experimental rock that drew upon everything from Albini-esque 90s post-hardcore to Steve Reich minimalism and early British industrial soundscapes with an alarming dexterity. Yet underneath this genre-melding lay an even more ambitious aim, Wasteland was a satirical concept album about the failures of satire in music.
Martha Skye Murphy - "Um" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Jul 22, 2024 | post-trash.com | Devin Birse

by Devin Birse (@devvvvi.b)There are confident debuts and then there are assured debuts. The former resembles a horse galloping to the front of the race. Teeth a gnashing, foam dripping out its mouth, sprinting ever forward with all the assurance that it shall win. The latter however is a more subdued thing, motionless and still, already certain of its pristine visage. Martha Skye Murphy’s long-awaited debut is an assured one.
Amiture - "Mother Engine" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Jun 18, 2024 | post-trash.com | Devin Birse

by Devin Birse (@devvvvi.b)“I know my shit is pure” are the first words echoed across Amiture’s second LP, Mother Engine. They pierce through the mix like a spectral echo past the driving beats and sleazy blues licks. It’s a statement of intent, the band's “shit is pure,” it’s a unique vision of trip-hop a world away from the dancey post-punk of their debut The Beach.
Single Review: Vangas - Slow Strum

Jun 15, 2024 | redbrick.me | Devin Birse

Music Editor Devin Birse reviews Vangas’s new single, finding it to be an exciting sonic leap forward from their excellent self titled LP. Less than a year after releasing their phenomenally brutal self-titled LP, Vangas have returned with a sonic leap forward of brilliant proportions. While the raw heaviness of their previous work has subsided, this is still gorgeously eviscerating music.
Still House Plants - "If I don’t make it, I love u" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Jun 11, 2024 | post-trash.com | Devin Birse

by Devin Birse (@devvvvi.b)As eclectic and esoteric as their work might seem from an initial glance the best way to describe the mesh of shard-like guitars, rumbling drums, and gripping vocals that make up Still House Plants is direct. The band's minimalist setup hides nothing from the listener. This isn’t an album where the studio is an instrument itself or there's an extensive list of guest players. Rather If I Don’t Make It, I Love Uis an album as blunt and heartfelt as its title.
Drahla - "Angeltape" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Jun 10, 2024 | post-trash.com | Devin Birse

by Devin Birse (@devvvvi.b)When the words “post-punk” are mentioned the adjective “angular” is never far behind. It's easy to understand why, it’s a genre built around cutting guitars and ricocheting grooves, if you listen to it with your eyes closed it begins to resemble a painting from the Russian futurist movement. Endless angles slice in and out of each other to resemble a cascading marriage of shapes.