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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200 STAB WOUNDS | "Manual Manic Procedures"

Metal Blade Records
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200 Stab Wounds' latest album Manual Manic Procedures has been a long time coming. The Cleveland based band have created a record that balances the most corrosive and blistering gore-splattered death metal with a primal sense of adventurous dynamics, pushing the boundaries of their apocalyptic savagery and earthquaking density to a place that feels downright nuanced (in the best of ways).

BOLDY JAMES & CONDUCTOR WILLIAMS | "Across The Tracks"

Near Mint
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It feels like a new spark has been lit throughout Across The Tracks, Boldy James' new collaborative album with the much in-demand producer Conductor Williams. The smoked and hazy vibes of James' best work remains in tact but there's a crackling energy to this record, the tempos are relaxed yet fluid. The soulful samples and breezy drums give Boldy room to run wild with his vivid street tales.

DIRTY THREE | "Love Changes Everything"

Drag City Records
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The legendary Dirty Three have returned. The Melbourne trio of Jim White, Mick Turner, and Warren Ellis, all master improvisers in their own right, are back with Love Changes Everything, the band's first new album in over a decade. Rest assured, the magic of their compositions remains in astounding form, heavy and abrasive at times while serene and meditative at others. Noisy and contemplative, it's an affective record with magnificent depth.

THE DRIN | "Elude The Torch"

Feel It Records
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The Drin have become one of punk’s most forward thinking bands. Their brand of claustrophobic atmosphere and arid lo-fi ambiance is still in tact on Elude The Torch, but there’s an incredible amount of sonic diversity bubbling beneath the haze on a set of songs that never feel constricted. From buzzing synths and muddy harmonicas to detached hip-hop beats and even some dungeon folk twang, The Drin take pieces here and there and reshape them into something unique.

GUIDED BY VOICES | "Strut Of Kings"

Guided By Voices Inc.
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It's been seven long months but Guided By Voices return with their latest album, Strut Of Kings. After four decades, Bob Pollard and co. still write songs at a speed that would suggest their life depended on it, but there's a delightful disorientation that runs through Strut of Kings. It's a GBV album, stomping and jangly one moment while weaving through psychedelic bliss the next.

MABE FRATTI | "Sentir Que No Sabes"

Unheard of Hope
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Mabe Fratti’s music carries elements of Juana Molina, Björk, and Portishead in its DNA, yet her experimental art pop is brilliantly original. The Mexico City-via-Guatemala based songwriter and avant-garde cellist’s sound transcends easy descriptions. Sentir que no sabes, Fratti’s fourth album, is compositionally focused, each stunning synth and cello movement an evolution of disorienting innovation.

PREVIOUS INDUSTRIES | "Service Merchandise"

Merge Records
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Open Mike Eagle, STILL RIFT, and Video Dave come together as Previous Industries, the chillest new underground hip-hop trio we’re likely to hear this. year. The group's debut album, Service Merchandise, resides somewhere between art rap and poetic character study, punctuated with punchlines. Each of the three makes the most of their verses, lacing a supreme cool and charismatic elegance into their lyrics.

SOUR WIDOWS | "Revival Of A Friend"

Exploding In Sound Records
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The transfixing symbiosis between Sour Widows' members is evident in their playing on Revival Of A Friend, the band’s first full length record, a visionary indie rock epic that swirls with extended instrumentals and heart-on-a-sleeve honesty. The band use nuance and atmosphere to hit impossible emotional peaks, wrought with equal parts tension and beauty. Sour Widows never take the easy path forward, their penchant to push and pull at our senses feels truer to life.

THA GOD FAHIM & NICOJP | "Snakes"

Odd Harmonics
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Following the great Chess Moves EP in 2023, Tha God Fahim and Venezuelan producer NicoJP team up again for the hard hitting Snakes LP, a record that feels ultra focused as Tha God Fahim attacks the beats like he's still got something to prove after all these years. The ominous boom-bap production provides the perfect match for The Dump Gawd’s flurry of bars, a dark and shadowy essence that matches the venomous bite of Snakes.

FURTHER LISTENING:

Bad Cough - Good Cough, Bad Cough

bcc: - Praise Low
Brain Tourniquet / Deliriant Nerve - Split
The Folk Implosion - Walk Thru Me
Gabriel Birnbaum - Patron Saint of Tireless Losers
Heaven - 4-Track EP
Lucta - Eterna Lotta
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Early Daze
Queen of Jeans - All Again
Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance - Jinxed By Being
Shudder To Think - 1987
Ulrika Spacek - Live to 388, NYC (reissue)
Yes - Fragile (Super Deluxe Edition) (reissue)
YUNGMORPHEUS & Alexander Spit - Waking Up & Choosing Violence

FURTHER LISTENING:

by: dan goldin