post-punk, 2025/2020
https://www.instagram.com/theshelsons/
heard on https://www.twitch.tv/djdeadparrot
track link: https://theshelsons.bandcamp.com/track/sadness-song-remastered-2025
Looks like these folks are out of Brazil. Not much info about them but they’re pretty good. I bet this song woulda been considered emo back in the 00s, but I swear part of the chorus reminds me of the 70s classic rock song “Dust in the Wind”.
They clearly have post-punk influences tho. Here’s a video of them doing a live cover of The Cure’s “10:15 Saturday Night” that’s pretty good.
I always love postpunk. You might not think there would be so much from Brazil. But between Plastique Noir and Das Projekt etc there surprisingly plenty.
From a quick look at their online presence, I think these are some guys who met probably in college and started a band for fun. It’s the sort of thing that happened back in the 80s too ofc, but bc now there’s inexpensive/free recording software and distribution networks a lot more of it gets more widely known, even if it doesn’t “make it big”.
