NEWS:
Boston slowcore project Clifford infuses an array of influences with bone-dry distortion. The range of their languidity makes for a compelling take on somewhat familiar indie territories without any gaps in Golden Caravan’s tracklisting.
Post-Trash’s Giliann Karon speaks with John Galm on reunion culture, his heroes and inspiration, and his excellent new solo record River of Blood.
Oldstar’s latest project is a focused, heartfelt country rock record and a studied approach to refashioning country music. Of the Highway, for all its attempts at getting out, knows where it came from.
A weekly post highlighting but a few of our favorite new releases in splendid alphabetical order, brief and (hopefully) informative. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think you should check out.
Abi Reimold’s first track in nearly a decade is elegant and powerful. Hear it first here.
Los Angeles-based punxsutawney speak about their music as well as they play it. With little effect on the dueling guitars besides reverb and overdrive, Untitled avoids the stylistic trappings of post-rock projects that came before them, carving their own path in the genre.
On 410,757,864,530 Dead Carps, Supreme Joy’s uncertainty around the commodification of art and the hypnosis of capitalism’s spectacle is expressed through a form to the “Born to die/ World is a fuck” meme. It’s an artistic expression of dissatisfaction through the absurd yet delicately profound.
Mal Devisa’s Palimpsesa— her first project since her debut Kiid— is a collection of songs written between 2015 and 2025 chronicling Deja Carr’s musical output at all ages and stages of expression. It’s a tidal wave of memory, a trip through a musical genius’s mind, and a true reflection of who Mal Devisa has become.
Ex Agent are a remarkable group because their influences remain influences. New Assumptions exists somewhere between the slow drones of Louisville post-rock, the free-form jazz noise of no-wave, and the impeccable art punk of late-70s England.
Welcome to “Essentials,” a sporadic column for new music recommendations from one lifelong chucklehead with questionable taste. It’s similar to “Fuzzy Meadows” except the title makes more sense and we’ve removed the words “best” and “weekly”.
The record expands upon the project’s industrial experimentation, lurking deep in atmospheric dread and jarring no wave, everything given its own space to settle. There’s a refined patience to the album. Sure, it’s still noisy, avant-garde, and penetrating, but it does all that with an emphasis on nuance.
billy woods’ GOLLIWOG is an enraged and exhausted, atmospheric masterpiece that fearlessly plunges into discomfort and abuse; skin-toned, gender-based, domestic, federal, colonial, and personal.
A weekly post highlighting but a few of our favorite new releases in splendid alphabetical order, brief and (hopefully) informative. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think you should check out.
Besta Quadrada’s first full length is a self-described “bratty hardcore” record, jam packed with caustic rippers and bouncy rhythms. Much like Rotary Club or Judy And The Jerks, the band tear through each buzzing song with a surge of personality, the songwriting equal parts rippling anxiety, sass, and sarcasm.
Pygmy Lush’s TOTEM is an unlikely feat in all regards. Rising from the ashes of cult favorite screamo band Pageninetynine, TOTEM evinces a thorough re-ignition of the hard-hitting styles which first put these musicians on the map.
Portsmouth’s Dog Lips hardly believe in down-time. Since 2022, they’ve been ripping up the East Coast DIY circuit, reveling in their signature balance of mayhem and cool. Today Post-Trash is thrilled to premiere “Gush,” the incredibly catchy first helping of Danger Forward.
Absence has long defined Alan Sparhawk’s output. On With Trampled By Turtles, there’s something new and beautiful to be found in the space an absence leaves if you are willing to confront it.
Calendar Year is a psychedelic folk album that reflects on the dour times with beauty amid the difficulty. Jessica Risker and her band expand their atmospheric qualities, dropping further into cosmic acoustics and Broadcast influenced textural warmth with a gentle strength in each of the songs.
Debbie Dopamine have a wonderful knack for presenting honest and uncompromising songs that delve deep into poignant and complex thoughts and beliefs, examining them in a compassionately human manner that is a delight to behold.
Guck’s latest single, “GUBAR,” oozes and pulses, the repetition of the chord progression pounding away like a sledgehammer to pavement. While the riff is locked into a psych tinged dread, it gives room for both the drums and vocals to explore, embracing the opportunity with their own ruthless charms.
A weekly post highlighting but a few of our favorite new releases in splendid alphabetical order, brief and (hopefully) informative. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think you should check out.
The NYC-based, Sub Pop-signed group composed of the four-piece of Greta Kline, Alex Bailey, Katie Von Schleicher, and Hugo Stanley hit familiar strides with witty lyrics and wistful reflections on what it feels like to live and love.
Macie Stewart’s When the Distance is Blue is a perfectly titled, surreal and expansive record. Her International Anthem debut is not a question or an answer ,but a murmuring thought, both perplexing and comforting.
Timeless World Forever by Graham Hunt draws on the timeline of alternative pop music composition, as his songs create a timeless sensation, reincarnating threads of energetic sounds from today's music, the 2010s, the 2000s, and the 1990s.
Mary Lattimore sculpts soundscapes that transmute the listener to a state that is as deeply disquieting as it is intensely curative. Post-Trash’s Khagan Aslanov sat down with the harpist at Sled Island Music Festival to chat about her beginnings, collaboration, and her love of The Cure.
With its wide scope, Milked’s new album Forgotten Pleasures demands to be heard in full, and while little can prepare you for certain tracks, they’re sharing the record’s first single, “Slow Pyre,” one of the album’s sonically unique moments - an art pop odyssey with shack shaking programmed beats.
PANIK FLOWER, on their sophomore effort Rearview, are unafraid to shift and change their approach, while still maintaining a compelling strength and drive that is in full bloom.
A weekly post highlighting but a few of our favorite new releases in splendid alphabetical order, brief and (hopefully) informative. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think you should check out.
Mess Esque’s Jay Marie, Comfort Me is a slow-burn album that rewards repeat listens. It doesn’t hurt to play it loud, which accentuates the quiet moments and lets the cacophonous ones crash over you.
Various Artists returns! Post-Trash’s Sydney Salk compiles the best compilations from Spring 2025, featuring NYC legends, weirdo French dub, and antiwar punk from across the globe.
POST-TRASH PLAYLIST:
NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES:
July 31:
- Tension Pets - Expresso Plaza EP
August 01:
- The Armed - The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed
- Cancer Void - First Metastasis
- The Chop - It's The Chop
- Domo Genesis - World Gone Mad EP
- Footings - The Worm Moon
- Freezing Cold - Treasure Pool
- Hedonist - SCAPULIMANCY
- Honey Radar - Reclining Psych-Out
- Human Corpse Abuse / Mortify - Split
- Illiterates - Does Not Compute
- Jessica Risker - Calendar Year
- Knowso - Hypnotic Smack
- Nuclear Daisies - First Taste of Heaven
- Rosali - Slow Pain: Live and Solo from Drop of Sun
- Ruined Virtue - A Garden Without Birds
- Screaming Trees - Clairvoyance (Plus) (reissue)
- Tha God Fahim - Dump Goat 3
- U.I.S. - U.I.S.
August 05:
- ShrapKnel & Mike Ladd - Saisir Le Feu
August 08:
- Anamanaguchi - Anyway
- Harry Sings! - Christie's Toy Box
- No Joy - Bugland
- Osees - Abomination Revealed At Last
- Primitive Impulse - Piss It Away
- Pustulant Flesh - Gurgling Pustulence
- Roc Marciano & DJ Premier - The Coldest Profession
- Teethe - Magic of the Sale
- Wombo - Danger In Fives