Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlights

As we all head into the weekend, we’re happy to share a few of our favorite new releases, out this week (in splendid alphabetical order). The write-ups are all kept brief and bite sized, snippets to catch your interest. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are just some of the many we think you should check out.

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AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS | "Cartoon Darkness"

B2B Records / Virgin Music Group
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Amyl And The Sniffers have emerged as the world’s “great punk hope,” a band rippling with an electrical current and a charmingly positive outlook. Cartoon Darkness builds on the incredible awareness in Amy Taylor’s lyrics - tough, unapologetically fun, vulnerable, and void of bullshit in equal measure, creating anthems for the punks looking for love, proudly flying their freak flag as they rise above the limits of “polite” society. It's a celebration of living exactly how you want.

ANNA MCCLELLAN | "Electric Bouquet"

Father/Daughter
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Anna McClellan’s word are as beautiful as her voice, drifting between a poetic awareness and abstract thought. Electric Bouquet, McClellan’s fourth album, came from a period of transition, a time spent adapting to new places, new relationships, new careers. It’s time spent ungrounded, watching the chips fall where they may, while settling into herself with a gentle focus.

ANNE MALIN | "Strange Power!"

Dear Life Records
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Strange Power!, the fifth album from Durham, North Carolina’s Anne Malin (aka Anne Malin Ringwalt) is a gorgeous blend of dimly lit folk music and poetic lyrics (the album itself is released in conjunction with a book of her poetry). The songs are sparse yet hit like a ton of bricks, built on Malin's gorgeous but subtle twists of melody and her carefully considered lyrics.

BLACK CURSE | "Burning In Celestial Poison"

Sepulchral Voice Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Things are about to get ugly. Denver's Black Curse (a band that features mems of Spectral Voice, Primitive Man, Khemmis) are back! Burning In Celestial Poison is violent and abrasive, contorting death metal and black metal into an intense and impenetrable sludge. Apocalyptic, savage, and oozing with decay, the record is gloriously dismal nightmare fuel, blistering and supremely brutal.

CHÉ NOIR | "The Lotus Child"

Poetic Movement Inc
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Buffalo's Che Noir is back with her second EP of the year, The Lotus Child. Mostly self-produced, the record highlights Che Noir as a lyrical perfectionist, the MC bringing a visionary approach ruminating on the come up. It's a triumphant reminder that she stands among lyrical giants, an MC that balances hard sentiment with an open heart.

ENFORCED | "A Leap Into The Dark"

Century Media
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Enforced could just be the best damn active thrash metal band in existence. The Richmond band follow up last year's War Remains with A Leap Into The Dark, an EP compiling new tracks, covers, and a much beloved b-side, leaning into their death metal influences while bulldozing with thrashing depravity. Stampeding and relentless, it's neck snapping fun amid total decimation.

FIEVEL IS GLAUQUE | "Rong Weicknes"

Fat Possum
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International psych pop masterminds Fievel Is Glauque return to their shapeless jazz inspired lo-fi bliss on Rong Weicknes, a disorienting joyride through that has the collective bending dream pop toward the point of collapse. It's a gorgeous and complicated record that manages to sound fluid and graceful.

LAURA MARLING | "Patterns In Repeat"

Partisan Records
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Laura Marling returns with Patterns In Repeat, her first new solo album in four years. Forever shifting her style from release to release without losing identity, her latest is a soft and dazzling reflection on the beauty of becoming a new parent. Written following the birth of Marling’s daughter, the record is full of gentle and considerate songs that are both radiant and lulling.

LIVING GATE | "Suffer As One"

Relapse Records
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Following a great EP released back in the summer of 2020, Belgian death metal wrecking crew Living Gate return with Suffer As One, a brutalist full length debut. Comprised of members of YOB, Oathbreaker, and Amenra, the band pay tribute to OSDM with a petulant disgust and bloodthirsty riffs. Equal parts complex and barbaric, it's a ripper, to say the least.

NIGHT IDEA | "Rocky Coast"

Ossein
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

New textures abound on Night Idea's latest, Rocky Coast. Their fourth full length hasn’t strayed from their unique sonic landscape, a mix of visionary prog rock, blustery psych, and folk warmth, but it’s expanded their capabilities, the kaleidoscopic effect of their sound grows ever more surrealist. Night Idea’s music is smooth and carefully constructed and yet they eschew any sense of sterility or over-production.

PATOIS COUNSELORS | "Limited Sphere"

Ever/Never Records
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There’s plenty going on within Patois Counselors’ sonic blueprint, as the seven piece band construct layered arrangements that toe the line between lush abrasion and hazy swoon. It’s a magic trick balancing noise and nuance the way they do, captured in splendid effect on Limited Sphere. With soft melodies and pointed lyrics, they make the uninhabitable sound hospitable.

THA GOD FAHIM & NICHOLAS CRAVEN | "Tha Myth Who Never Quit 2"

Self Released
Bandcamp | Youtube

It's only been three weeks since Tha God Fahim released his last album but the all too prolific MC is back with Tha Myth Who Never Quit 2, produced by frequent collaborator Nicholas Craven. The record finds Fahim in sage mode, offering insight and wisdom, an uplifting release, with some of Craven's finest drum heavy beats.

Further Listening:

2nd Grade - Scheduled Explosions
Alvilda - C'est Déjà L'heure
Bratmobile - Girls Get Busy (reissue)
Bratmobile - Ladies, Women and Girls (reissue)
Buñuel - Mansuetude
Dazy - IT’S ONLY A SECRET (If You Repeat It)
Elias Rønnenfelt - Heavy Glory
Gang of Four - Songs of the Free (reissue)
Her New Knife - Chrome is Lullaby
Mope Grooves - Box Of Dark Roses
Naked Roommate - Pass The Loofah
Nero - LP3.14
Rodan - Rusty (30th Anniversary Edition)
Sedimentum - Derrière les Portes d'une Arcane Transcendante
Slint - Tweez (35th Anniversary Edition)
Strangelight - Material Conditions
Zorn - Endless Funeral

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin