Post-Hardcore

The second album from San Diego’s Three Mile Pilot gets the occasional listen over the years since acquiring the record in the 90s. There’s some thoughts penned here on the band’s sound as well as the totally unique style of the band’s bass player, Zach Smith.

A late 90s, cult, synth-inflected post-hardcore classic — one I’ve written about here and there before — the closing title track of this American band’s one and only LP gets taken up with a unique angle here.

A look at this track from the 1991 Fugazi album Steady Diet Of Nothing, from a band that is for me one of the most important in terms of influence and direction in my musical history.

This track from the band’s newest 2024 album Wilting— featuring members of Arab On Radar, Doomsday Student, etc — offers a soundtrack to danceable psychosis, built on the back of their history of musical output.

With a new book out recently by Seth Lorinczi called Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir, here’s a track from his old band Circus Lupus — which he played bass guitar in — from the band’s second album on Dischord Records, Solid Brass.

With this influential 90s post-hardcore band Unwound back on the road again, I have dug back into the extensive catalogue of one of my favourite bands with the track “Envelope”.

The 1999 album Blank-Wave Arcade by synth punk group The Faint contains two tracks that cleverly share the same riff. Some déja vu action indeed!

After recently going through a short, intense phase of listening to tracks of Washington DC’s cult band Lungfish, here’s my overview of their sound.

Getting a re-issue now on the US label Solid Brass, I took a listen to Came By To Kill Me (1996) by post-hardcore group Kerosene 454 after many years.

The sole LP by the short-lived Beautiful Skin, an American electronic duo working with sounds preceding the minimal wave revival, from hardcore roots.

One that re-entered my head after quite some time by accident, that being the opening track “Heads Down” from the sole 1998 LP by The Farewell Bend.

The challenging major label debut album Pony Express Record by Washington DC’s Shudder To Think and to me one of the most beautiful oddball signings of the 90s alternative boom.

With the recent passing of Sparkmarker guitarist/vocalist Kim Kinakin, this is a look at their 1994 release Products And Accessories and the track “Levi’s Deklein”.

A revisit to the one and only LP by Regulator Watts (ex-Hoover), a record I hadn’t listened to in over two decades. Atmospheric and dark post-hardcore.

The Monorchid were a short-lived Washington DC band coming from a long lineage of players in that scene, resulting in a unique, wire-y sound.

A look at the details of the track “Doomsday” by post-(insert term here) “supergroup” June Of 44 from their 1998 album Four Great Points.