“Upbeat post-punk song”
Jangly post-punk at its finest: Baby Combat's 12 / Pop Is The Noblest Genre collates fuzzy, hook-led guitar songs with nervous energy and a scrappy post-punk edge into one essential double album. Jacob's Fall's Lost In Silence channels melancholy and inner struggle into dark, atmospheric, deeply melodic rock that's intensely elegiac yet never hopeless. Chris of Wilderness's White Swami delivers a pharmaceutical-grade shot of hip-hop beats fused with synth/sampler paranoia and poetic explorations of drugs, the panopticon, and faith, while John Titor's Time Machine's It's Time to Bounce, Amigo! is a proggy, industrial, and gloriously crass punk odyssey — no filler, all killer.
“A bit more on the upbeat side for a dark alt./post-punk/goth rock song, Sound And Fury explores the masks we wear and illusions we carry into our social personas, especially in club situations.”
“Auckland-based Stars and the Underground return with a new single blending post-punk, indie rock, and shoegaze influences. RIYL: The Mission UK, The Chameleons, The Church”
“Montreal's The City Gates deliver a jangly post-punk tune with shoegazed guitar whirls and a driving pulse.”
“'Open' by The Penal Colony is a work of minimalist post-punk that explores themes of pessimism vs. optimism in the face of traumatic experiences.”
“'Bodies' is a work of post-industrial minimalism inspired by the human body conceptualized as a deterministic, self-surveilling structure that is itself a component of larger, deterministic structu...”
“Noises Beyond is an '80s horror-inspired exploration of darkwave and post-punk that flits between morose and campy vibes for a uniquely cinematic experience.”