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 “tweet sized,” kept brief in the tradition of our old new release thread. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think you should check out.

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BERMUDA SQUARES | "Outsider"

Feel It Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Minneapolis' Bermuda Squares (mems Retainers, Citric Dummies,Green/Blue) release their debut album Outsider, hitting the ground running (it actually sounds like it was already playing the moment it begins). It's a punk ripper that blends giant riffs, tightly coiled post-punk, and delightfully legless melodies.

BETH GIBBONS | "Lives Outgrown"

Domino Recording Co.
Spotify | Apple

Beth Gibbons needs no introduction. Twenty two years after the release of her collaborative album with Rustin Man, the Portishead singer goes solo on the stunning Lives Outgrown, a showcase for her crystalline voice and haunting compositions. Gibbons explores aging and time with a deft grace and orchestral precision.

BOOTLICKER | "1000 Yard Stare"

Neon Taste / Static Shock Records
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Bootlicker, the Canadian hardcore band known for their blistering d-beat stampede return with 1000 Yard Stare, a fast and primal record that aims its indignation at the avalanche of modern injustice. This is no frills punk that rattles forward like a freight-train, filled with disdain for the military industrial complex.

CRUMB | "AMAMA"

Self Released
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Everyone loves Crumb. The New York based psych pop band return with their third album AMAMA, a gorgeous deep dive into their languid world of jazzy rock and experimental pop textures. They've expanded their palette to embrace electronic touches while evolving the wispy dissociative quality of their music.

D. SABLU | "No True Silence"

Self Released
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No True Silence feels like the D. Sablu album we've all been waiting for, a swarming punk record that swings for the fences, embracing hardcore, post-punk, sleazy rock ‘n’ roll, blown out skate punk, and beyond. The New Orleans based band are surging with energy at every moment, exploring their propulsive sound with a nuanced combustion.

EARTH BALL | "It's Yours"

Upset The Rhythm
Bandcamp

Vancouver's Earth Ball share their debut album, It's Yours, a searing blast of improvised no-wave and blistering psych rock on the avant-garde end of the spectrum. Impossibly noisy and abrasive, the result is immersive and hypnotic, jazzy and damaged, textured with scuzz, repetition, and motorik debauchery.

GATECREEPER | "Dark Superstition"

Nuclear Blast
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Arizona death metal juggernauts Gatecreeper return with the long awaited Dark Superstition, pairing their signature brutality and sludgy grooves with a melodic turn (at times reminiscent of Dismember). It's a big shift but the band haven't abandoned the oozing and violent density and apocalyptic dread they've built their sound upon.

MACH-HOMMY | "#Richaxxhaitian"

Self Released
Spotify | Apple

Following a slew of EPs and collaborations, the enigmatic Mach-Hommy returns with #Richaxxhaitian, his first new solo record since 2021. As one of hip-hop's great visionaries, it feels as though Mach has been patiently observing and building this record, a masterclass of shifting style where Mach's pristine delivery remains the constant.

MAGIC FIG | "Magic Fig"

Silver Current Records
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Wondrous, majestic, and fantastical, Magic Fig’s debut rarely feels of these times, and it’s all the better for it, an ever shifting kaleidoscope, the shapes all recognizable yet refracted in mirrored splendor. It’s a decidedly pop odyssey that wanders deep into the woods of late 60’s prog, Moog altered psych, and dream pop at its most visionary.

SHELLAC | "To All Trains"

Touch and Go Records
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As the world mourns the profound loss of the legendary Steve Albini, Shellac returns with To All Trains, their first album in a decade. Still every bit as brilliant as it is abrasive, taut, and prickly, the band mix their deadpan humor and sardonic nature to great effect over tangled and mangled minimalist post-hardcore.

SOOKS | "Moral Decay"

Permanent Residence
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Perth based hardcore band Sooks release their full length debut, Moral Decay, a record of stampeding tempos, buzzsaw guitars, and lyrical indignation. It's a furious album about fighting for your beliefs, keeping the rage lit for all those oppressed. Ange's dynamic vocals shift between grizzly and nimble throughout the righteous ripper.

FURTHER LISTENING:

Draag - Actually, The Quiet is Nice
Goblin Daycare - Agitprop Hotline
Insane Urge - Two Tapes
Isobel Campbell - Bow To Love
Jack Name - Fabulous Soundtracks
Kulk - It Gets Worse
Lightheaded - Combustible Gems
Liquids - Piss Here
May Rio - Elegant Ensemble
Memo PST - Memo PST
Mountain Movers - Walking After Dark
Mutant Academy - Talk Soon
NTSC PAL - Full of Spots
Pyrex - Bozo
Quasi - When The Going Gets Dark (reissue)
Raz Fresco & Daniel Son - Northside
Strychnos - Armageddon Patronage
Tzompantli - Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force
Zero Point Energy - Tilted Planet

FURTHER LISTENING:

by: dan goldin