Hometown: Iowa City, IA
Label: Gentle Edward Records, Handshake Production Company
Management: Chelsea Marie
Website: www.thepostmortems.com
Sounds Like: *The Doors*, Joy Division, Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, Grinderman
Genre: Alternative
The Post Mortems are Devin Alexander and Al Raymond, bass and drums lunatic goth rock without the pomp.
“Devin and Al BOTH make an hour-long appearance on The Open Eye podcast!”
Dan Orr - The Open Eye Podcast
"The Post Mortems avoid the two-piece trap of sonic limitation on the strength of their song-writing: Every song on Cracked and Crooked has distinctive and memorable melodies, and there’s plenty of dynamic shifts and tonal changes in the instruments and voice."
Kent Williams - Little Village Mag
"The Post Mortems' genre-defying sound intentionally paints itself into a corner, distinguished from the local music scene and hacking out its own niche with a blunted battleaxe."
Tripp Crouse - Quad City Times Go&Do
"Let’s start with the laziness, because it’s instructive how narrowly Alexander defines it."
Jeff Ignatius - River Cities Reader
"Most of the following scenarios would have stopped a mortal band."
Scott Walus - Thee Analog Blog
"...Strangely successful..."
Jeff Ignatious - River Cities Reader
“RME Cafe show article with Mutts!”
Tripp Crouse - QCTimes
“Inclusion for the Viral Video segment on WQAD.”
WQAD Viral Video
“Devin Alexander, of the Iowa-based drums and bass duo the Post Mortems, talks about the challenges of writing for a band comprised of two instruments not normally featured for an entire song.”
Stephanie De Pasquale - Quad City Times
““We don't sound at all like we’re missing an instrument,” he said. “People don’t come to our shows and think, ‘It would be great if they had more guitar sound in there’ or anything like that. We’re not missing a thing.””
Stephanie De Pasquale - QCTimes Go&Do