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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BAD BREEDING | "Contempt"

Iron Lung / One Little Independent Records
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Stevenage anarcho hardcore band Bad Breeding return with their fifth full length, Contempt, a brash record fueled by their righteous rage and a unwieldy distortion. Swarming in sludgy layers of primal noise, the band's brand of politically minded punk takes on a new degree of brutality, peeling back some of the auxiliary elements of their last record in favor of hardcore deviance.

BLACKLISTERS | "This Is Not An Album By BLKLSTRS"

A Tant Rêver Du Roi Records
Bandcamp

The new Blacklisters album isn’t quite an “album,” but it could be if you want it to be. Comprised of the band’s last two EPs and a pair of new songs, it’s been resequenced with album-like intention. Another essential release from the Leeds based noise rock band, mining their sordid and sarcastic take on toxic masculinity and elitism with immersive swells of mangled guitars and thick as mud low end.

COLA | "The Gloss"

Fire Talk Records
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Montreal's Cola, the band formed by Ought's Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy together with Evan Cartwright, release their second album, The Gloss, further developing their brand of jazzy post-punk with elements of dream pop and nuanced art rock. Cola's latest is both breezy and complex, even their most rattling tendencies feel smooth on an album that keeps giving with repeat listens.

FAN CLUB | "Demonstration 2024"

Self Released
Bandcamp

Look, we all knew LYSOL probably couldn't keep that band name forever. Now just three months after they released the Down On The Street EP, the Seattle based punk band has rebranded as Fan Club, and they arrive with Demonstration 2024. The name has changed, but their swaggering punk and hardcore sound is still built on rock 'n' roll excess with great riffs and a scrappy resolve.

LAS NUBES | "Tormentas Malsanas"

Spinda / Godless America / Sweat Records Records
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Five years after their debut, Miami's Las Nubes are back with Tormentas Malsanas, an eclectic record with big fuzzy riffs, dreamy melodies, pop charm, and songs that feel massive on first impression. The multilingual duo of Ale Campos and Emile Milgrim craft their songs with heaps of distortion and swooning harmonies, at times dissonant but almost always rooted in impossible to forget hooks and syrupy noise pop.

MARCEL WAVE | "Something Looming"

Feel It Records / Upset The Rhythm
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London’s Marcel Wave understand the need for melodic balance in modern post-punk, a task that Maike Hale-Jones, the band’s vocalist, excels at. Their sound jitters beneath a deft combination of her sardonic and poetic spoken vocals and sweeping melodies that in turn feel enormous. Featuring members of the great Sauna Youth and Cold Pumas, there’s a seasoned dexterity to their debut album, Something Looming.

MONO | "OATH"

Temporary Residence Ltd / Pelagic / New Noise
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MONO can't be stopped. Celebrating twenty five years together, the Japanese post-rock legends continue to innovate on their twelfth full length album, OATH. Recorded with Steve Albini (the band's engineer of choice for the past twenty plus years), the record is both cinematic and meditative, the songs evolving at their own pace with an amorphous orchestral grace.

SNOOPER / PRISON AFFAIR | "Split"

Under The Gun / Big Love / Static Shock Records
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Snooper and Prison Affair are undoubtedly "egg punk all-stars," a term no likes but everyone understands. Together at last on a split 7" for the ages, both bands jitter and rampage through tripped out punk that's blistering with hooks and weirdo bliss. Ragged but infectious, there's a synchronicity in their hyper-scuzz workouts and their against-all-odds alien form accessibility.

THIS IS LORELEI | "Box For Buddy, Box For Star"

Double Double Whammy
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The ever shifting landscape of This Is Lorelei is a rare breed, the solo project of Nate Amos (Water From Your Eyes) has always served as a catch all for his boundless creativity. Box For Buddy, Box For Star feels like a culmination of all he's done, a kaleidoscopic blend of his many influences and inclinations, pulling together fried country tunes, auto-tuned electro pop, and homespun shoegaze to accent his impeccably earnest and heartfelt songs.

FURTHER LISTENING:

Bullseye - Bullseye
Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood
Julie Doiron / Astral Swans - Split
Meat Puppets - Mirage (reissue)
Meat Puppets - Monsters (reissue)
Necron 9 - Flower Children Tape
No Knock - Imagine A World Without Landlord$ EP
NxWorries - Why Lawd?
Rebecca Ryskalczyk - The Music of Ouchie
Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives (reissue)
Russian Baths - Mirror
Squid Pisser - Dreams of Puke

FURTHER LISTENING:

by: dan goldin