Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlights

As you or may not know, we try to post a thread on Twitter every Friday recapping some of our favorite releases out that week. Due to the fact that threaded posts can’t be scheduled in advance, it’s not always timely and depending on how busy life is, sometimes doesn’t happen at all. So, like many sites before ours, we’re introducing a new weekly post highlighting but a few of our favorite new releases in splendid alphabetical order. We’re sticking to tweet sized write-ups, to keep it brief. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think are worth checking out.

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BABEHOVEN | "Water's Here In You"

Double Double Whammy
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Hudson Valley's Babehoven release the beautiful Water's Here In You, a new full length that expands upon on Maya Bon and Ryan Albert's music as a duo, creating sentimental folk that's dreamy, brilliantly composed, and well produced (by Albert). Gentle yet nuanced, it's a comfort.

BUSTED HEAD RACKET | "Go Go Go!"

Erste Theke Tontraeger
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Go Go Go! is about as an appropriate name as any Busted Head Racket album could ever ask for. The jittery "egg punk" band from Newcastle, Australia could be the Southern Hemisphere's answer to Snooper, a band that's built on joyous momentum and squirming synths, both kinetic and wonderfully weird.

CORRIDOR | "Mimi"

Sub Pop Records
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Five years after their last album, Montreal's Corridor return with Mimi and they've never sounded better. Their elastic brand of indie rock, art pop, and progressive psych warmth is smooth but dynamic, an exemplary reminder that indie rock can be exciting. Drifting into zoned out bliss.

FULL OF HELL | "Coagulated Bliss"

Closed Casket Activities
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No matter how you feel about extreme metal, it should be said that Full of Hell’s latest album, Coagulated Bliss, is an undeniably interesting. After fourteen years, their shapeshifting metal is still finding new ways to embrace noise while subverting expectations. Full of Hell no know bounds.

GREG SAUNIER | "We Sang, Therefore We Were"

Joyful Noise Recordings
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After all these years astounding us in Deerhoof, drummer, producer, songwriter extraordinaire Greg Saunier is releasing his official solo album, We Sang, Therefore We Were, a cavalcade of tangled ideas and astounding rhythms. No surprise, it's a burst of joy and eccentricities.

JESSICA PRATT | "Here In The Pitch"

Mexican Summer
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It hardly needs to be said but Here In The Pitch, Jessica Pratt’s new album is absolutely stunning. The LA based songwriter's latest is a blend of dreamy folk, indie pop, and subtle nods to bossa nova, captured with sparse acoustics and haunting elements of psychedelic pop. Everything beautifully in its place.

MANDY | "Lawn Girl"

Exploding In Sound Records
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Mandy, Miranda Winters' (of Melkbelly) solo project turned band release their full length debut, Lawn Girl, a gorgeous album of grungy lo-fi and introspective songwriting revolving a sense of female empowerment. Winters and co. have an impeccable knack for catchy and melodically engaged dissonance.

MISTER GOBLIN | "Frog Poems"

Spartan Records
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Mister Goblin returns with Frog Poems, his latest album (and first for Spartan Records). The Florida based Sam Golbin, one of our favorite songwriters, is playing with the formula throughout, highlighting both his heart and humor. Delicate acoustics, wry lyricism, and explosive structures collide.

NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE | "Fu##In' Up"

Reprise Records
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse are back at it again... and they're rockin'. Fu##In' Up is a modern reimagining of the Ragged Glory years, the band's 1990 album given a new light, or perhaps a new Crazy Horse glow, they way only they can.

NOLAN POTTER | "The Perils of Being Trapped Inside a Head"

Self Released
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Austin's Nolan Potter returns with The Perils of Being Trapped Inside A Head, a new full length album that eschews much of the heavier prog side of Music Is Dead in favor of deeper psych exploration and spacier drifts. Still loaded with the acidic charm of the Canterbury scene, it feels like an album that needs repeat listens.

OBJECTIONS | "Optimistic Sizing"

Wrong Speed Records
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Ever since last year's debut single, we've been eagerly awaiting the debut from England's Objections (Nape Neck, Bilge Pump) and Optimistic Sizing is a tremendous set of detached, serrated, and brilliant post-punk. The band push repetition and tonal shifts in equal measure, the results abrasive yet melodic.

PARANOID MANIAC | "Garden Plot"

Self Released
Bandcamp

Raleigh, North Carolina's Paranoid Maniac share their utterly unhinged second EP, Garden Plot, a hardcore record bent in feedback and blistering tempos. It's raw as all hell and fully locked in to rampage. Riotous (and righteous) hardcore with great riffs and deranged vocals.

PARSNIP | "Behold"

Anti Fade / Upset The Rhythm Records
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The effervescent Parsnip return with Behold, a gorgeous new album of twee punk, art pop, and sweet harmonies. Their shimmering pop is spliced with a dip further back into the psych jangle of eras past, but Parsnip sound much like the swirling future of better days ahead

SECT MARK | "Self Obliteration"

Iron Lung Records
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Italy's Sect Mark return with Self Obliteration, a crusty hardcore record that lurks in the shadows but pulls no punches upon impact. This is a grim record, scrapping with distortion and disdain, but Sect Mark make it engaging, peeling the paint from the walls with a violent energy.

TARA JANE O'NEIL | "The Cool Cloud Of Okayness"

Orindal Records
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A true veteran of artful music, there's little Tara Jane O'Neil hasn't done over the years, and done exceptionally well. The Cool Cloud of Okayness finds the multi-instrumentalist in experimental folk territory, improvising together with a slew of guests (Marisa Anderson, Meg Duffy, etc)

THOM YORKE | "Confidenza (Original Soundtrack)"

XL Recordings
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Thom Yorke (Radiohead, The Smile), surely you've heard of him, releases the cinematic original soundtrack for Confidenza, a blend of meditative songs and orchestral pieces, part film score, and part transcendent Yorke songwriting.

WRETCHED BLESSING | "Wretched Blessing"

Self Released
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Wretched Blessing, the duo of Rae Amitay (Immortal Bird) and Kayhan Vaziri (Yautja), brings together two great musicians from the more artistic side of metal, unleashing with it a mix of sludge, death metal, black metal, hardcore, and d-beat, forming a path of intricate destruction

Further Listening:

Brunch - Carry
Diode - 2
Geo - Out of Body
Glaring Orchid - I Hope You're Okay
Homeless Cadaver - Champale Wishes and Cadaviar Dreams
Joyer - Night Songs
KLONNS - Heaven
Six Organs of Admittance - Time Is Glass
Writhing Squares - Mythology

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin