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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22° HALO | "Lily of the Valley"

Tiny Library Records
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Lily of the Valley is the latest album from Philly based indie rockers, 22° Halo, a welcome continuation of the band’s intimate and intricate compositions. With overlapping and interlocking crackly, twinkling guitar leads that beautifully contrast with Will Kennedy’s deep, breathy vocals, these tender and masterfully arranged songs feel like a warm blanket on a cold, rainy night, providing temporary comfort from life’s concerns. - John Brouk

BANANAGUN | "Why is the Colour of the Sky?"

Full Time Hobby
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Bananagun's second album, Why is the Colour of the Sky?, is a deeply psychedelic record, swirling with paisley undergrounder bliss, mesmerizing rhythms, and inescapable grooves. The album’s expansive acid pop is free and hallucinatory, formed by kaleidoscopic fragments of prog, jazz, and psych folk. The surreal album melts, oozes, and floats, wandering into the future with a brilliant reverence for the breezy psychotropic past.

STYLIANOS OU & THE CORTISOL COWS | "Fucked Forever"

Ever/Never Records
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There's honestly very little that can prepare you for the experience of Stylianos Ou & The Cortisol Cow's new album, Fucked Forever. Based in Greece, Stelios Papagrigoriou and co. blend earnest folk music with unnerving art punk in a way that feels entirely alien. Sounding like Silver Jews via The Drones, they traverse the natural world with a sweeping acidity.

THANK | "I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed"

Big Scary Monsters
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Thank's music is abrasive, throbbing, and entirely consuming, but there’s a balance. The Leeds based quartet also write some of the sharpest hooks you’ll ever come across. I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed, the band’s second full length, is an expansion of their sound, both more patient and frantic, uglier and funnier, unnerving but plastered with a permanent smirk.

VARIETY | "Subtropical"

Self Released
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The recording project of Rhys Woodruff (Borzoi, Leche), Variety’s music presents itself like a kitchen sink of arty punk and fuzzy indie rock ideas, each one complimentary to the greater whole. Subtropical, the band’s full length debut, is exceptional from start to finish, Woodruff’s songs are knotted yet focused, clamoring but catchy, with every jittery fuzz pop burst accented for accessibility while retaining a weird punk charm.

VARIOUS ARTISTS | "Like Someone I Know: A Celebration Of Margo Guryan"

Sub Pop
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Margo Guryan proved with Take A Picture, released in the late 60s that she was lightyears ahead of her time. The psychedelic sunshine pop record is considered a masterpiece for good reason. Sub Pop are celebrating the album with their own tribute, the songs recreated by a show stealing June McDoom, spiritual successors Pearl & The Oysters, Frankie Cosmos, Rahill, and Munya among others.

$VENUS TWINS | "/\/\/\/\/ (Pronounced Stitching)"$

VENUS TWINS | "/\/\/\/\/ (Pronounced Stitching)"

Three One G
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Venus Twins' new EP, /\/\/\/\/ (pronounced Stitching) requires a parenthetical definition just as much as it requires a dismantling of all senses. The duo make freaked out noise punk built for modern times, a mix of chaotic intensity together with moments of warped tranquility, each equally disarming when paired together. Spastic and impenetrable, they're creating super charged punk that's undeniably corrosive.

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by: post-trash staff