Kris Handel

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Miners - "A Healthy Future On Earth" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Nov 19, 2024 | post-trash.com | Kris Handel

by Kris HandelA Healthy Future on Earth is the sophomore full length from Australian post-punk/shoegaze trio Miners, fronted by Blake Clee and featuring friends Nick Johnson (Mope City, Shrapnel) and Wilson Harris. This record is full of sharp guitar hooks and a trembly sense of nervousness for the outer world that is in constant flux around them.
Morpho - "Morpho Season" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Nov 17, 2024 | post-trash.com | Kris Handel

by Kris HandelMorpho is the project of Chicago transplant Kristyn Chapman, who is also an artist/photographer, and her passions truly inform each other in numerous ways. On her debut, Morpho Season, she takes the approach of an observer in regards to subjects like memory, lost relations, nature, and outside environments with a tactile approach full of compassion and strength.
Naked Roommate - "Pass The Loofah" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Nov 12, 2024 | post-trash.com | Kris Handel

by Kris HandelPass the Loofah is the sophomore album from beat oriented Oakland post-punk band Naked Roommate, delivering on detached creations and playfully poking at life’s absurd moments in a way that’s very easy to love. Amber Sermeno's vocals are cool and mostly dry as she blankly intones put downs and witty wordplay over funky bass lines to get you moving and an amalgam of new wave blurts and squeals.
Being Dead - "EELS" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Nov 4, 2024 | post-trash.com | Kris Handel

by Kris HandelEELSis the second album from Being Dead, introducing the Austin, TX trio to a wider audience while still delivering garage oddities and glorious girl-group tinged harmonies. Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy continue to expound upon their imaginative songwriting while also touching on subjects of bodily discomfort/dissociation, belonging, and balancing creative endeavors with the pressure of the grinding work-a-day cultural environment.
Jamison Field Murphy - "It Has To End" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Oct 24, 2024 | post-trash.com | Kris Handel

by Kris HandelJamison Field Murphy has been plying his trade in the past few years as guitarist/singer in Maryland trio Tomato Flower, adding immense texture and color to that band's twisting prog inflected art-pop. His solo debut, It Has to End, finds Murphy continuing to lay down intricate and complex guitar figures but this time indebted to psych-tinged pop, full of reflection as well as a hauntingly strange tension.
Being Dead Discuss Soft Pretzels, Gummy Bears, and Their New Album, EELS | Feature Interview — POST-TRASH

Oct 9, 2024 | post-trash.com | Kris Handel

by Kris HandelAs Being Dead were about to release their new album, EELS (released September 27th via Bayonet Records), they took time out to speak to us here at Post-Trash. The band have created their own unique space both in music and their own world blurring fiction and reality with a quick witted humor and off the cuff story-telling that can baffle the uninitiated.
Merce Lemon - "Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Oct 1, 2024 | post-trash.com | Kris Handel

by Kris HandelMerce Lemon has proven herself to be a compelling songwriter, truly shining with her intimacy and sense of humor, be it writing songs about her cat or detailing sorrow that can take a sledgehammer to your heart. With her third full length album, Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild, Lemon and her bandmates have crafted a record of rolling country landscapes amidst heart-wrenching and cutting lyricism.
Fantasy of a Broken Heart - "Feats of Engineering" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Sep 25, 2024 | post-trash.com | Kris Handel

by Kris HandelFeats of Engineering, the debut album from Fantasy of a Broken Heart, the duo of Bailey Wollowitz and Al Nardo, has been in the works for a long time and is now ready to announce itself with panache. The band have been working on the record for nearly five years and have faced multiple obstacles (namely a global pandemic) mixed with an overflowingly busy schedule with other musical compadres.
MJ Lenderman - "Manning Fireworks" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Sep 4, 2024 | post-trash.com | Kris Handel

by Kris HandelLate 2021 and early 2022 was a big time period for MJ Lenderman and the ascent of his explosive musical career as the break-through of Wednesday's Twin Plagues and his own Boat Songs releases sparked a well founded new interest. Manning Fireworksis Lenderman's fourth solo record, one that finds him delving into the folkier territories of his masterful oeuvre.
Slippers - "So You Like Slippers?" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

Aug 18, 2024 | post-trash.com | Kris Handel

by Kris HandelSo You Like Slippers?introduces Madeline Babuka-Black’s (Le Pain, Yucky Duster), new project, Slippers, to the world of high-powered and bouncy power-pop. Her songs are full of delightful melodies that at times are reminiscent of early-mid period Teenage Fanclub and Velvet Crush with tinges of bubbly garage punk.