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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ACTION BRONSON | "Johann Sebastian Bachlava The Doctor"

Baklava Industries
Spotify | Apple

Action Bronson is out here doing his damn thing without a care in the world and his latest, Johann Sebastian Bachlava The Doctor, is a hip-hop album only he could make. One of his best since the early days, Bronson continues to evolve instead of repeating his past, there's a comical essence to his lyrics, making rap music that's fun but potent, and never self serious. Over a set of impeccably dynamic beats, Bronson is coloring way outside the lines.

CHRIS COHEN | "Paint A Room"

Hardly Art
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

There’s a lot of warmth to be found in Chris Cohen’s songs, the music is lush and intricate, his words gentle and comforting. Five years after his self-titled album, he returns with Paint A Room, his fourth solo album and first for Hardly Art. Recorded together with his live band and a few special guests, the record continues to shape his brilliant art pop and folk sound in a way that’s both dazzling and subdued.

COLOR GREEN | "Fool's Parade"

New West Records
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Los Angeles based cosmic rock 'n' rollers Color Green are back with Fool's Parade, a record of breezy country fried rock that finds the sweet spot between psych pop, folk, and classic rock tendencies. Full of heart and layered textures, it's an easy rocking album that rambles and grooves in equal measure, packing a front-porch indebted punch.

ISMATIC GURU | "IV"

Swimming Faith Records
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Ismatic Guru, the Buffalo based duo of John Toohill (Science Man) and Bran Schlia (Helmsley) return with IV, their latest astounding EP in as many years. The band play it weird as ever, but they've toned down some of the "egg punk" tendencies for something deviantly progressive at times, but make no mistake, this is art punk through and through, contorting between deranged synths and tightly coiled rhythms.

JAY WORTHY & DĀM-FUNK | "Magic Hour"

GDF Records / EMPIRE
Spotify | Apple

Jay Worthy teams up with producer Dām-Funk for Magic Hour, an album that feels like a new West Coast hip-hop staple, smoked out amid the palm trees and drop tops. The production bounces with the perfect blend of old school funk and soul, a landscape that suits Jay Worthy well, his flow steadily riding the laid back beats, paying homage to the Westside classics while adding his modern flavor.

KOSMETIKA | "Luxury"

Spoilsport Records
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It often feels as though the only constant for Melbourne's Kosmetika is that there is no constant, the band's brand of post-punk forever in a state of flux. Arriving just a year after Illustration, the band's latest album, Luxury, mixes together krautrock's motorik grooves with new wave melodies and space-age synths to create post-punk that feels genuinely fun. The band stretch between absurdist ideas and syrupy melodies to create their best effort yet.

LASSO | "Parte"

Läjä Records / Sorry State Records
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After three increasingly great EPs, Brazilian hardcore band Lasso release Parte, their relentless full length debut. Unglued from start to finish this is a ruthless record of buzzsaw riffs and frantic howling vocals. The band swing between haymaker dirges and head-rattling velocity as they tear through seventeen minutes of brutal tempos and pummeling aggression at its most primal.

TENSION PETS | "Cubey EP"

Self Released
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Chicago’s Tension Pets were made for these times, their sound a whirlwind of warped technicolor punk and hyperactive noise pop. The band - Jeff Graupner (The Hecks), Davey Hart (The Christmas Bride), Brian Weza (Richard Album), and Wendy Zeldin (Mandy) - are no strangers to the weird world of DIY punk, and Cubey EP is delightfully weird yet locked in. Earning apt comparison to Brainiac, their debut captures a particular kind of synth friend brilliance that gets better with every listen.

THA DOGG POUND | "W.A.W.G. (We All We Got) [Deluxe]"

Death Row Records
Spotify | Apple

Nearly thirty years later, Tha Dogg Pound's new album W.A.W.G. (We All We Got) feels like the spiritual successor to Dogg Food, released by none other than Death Row Records. It's rare to hear a come back this on par, but this record occasionally sounds like the group’s classic era in the best of ways, Kurupt and Daz spitting that classic crass LA gangster rap together with Snoop Dogg, The Lady of Rage, Butch Cassidy and more.

WATER FROM YOUR EYES | "MP3 Player 1"

Matador Records
Spotify | Apple

Water From Your Eyes' music is undeniably eclectic in nature, so it only makes sense that their taste is as well. MP3 Player 1 is the band's second collection of covers, these recorded around the time of their great Matador debut Everyone's Crushed. Covering Al Green, Adele, Third Eye Blind, and Chumbawamba, the songs most out of their "expected" comfort zone are the definitive best.

FURTHER LISTENING:

Assistert Sjølmord - Assistert Sjølmord
Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
Land of Talk - Applause Cheer Boo Hiss: The Definitive Edition (reissue)
Magik Markers - A New Kind of World
Negative Gears - Moraliser
ORB - Tailem Bend
Pack Rat - Life's A Trap
Pavement - Cautionary Tales: Jukebox Classiques (box set)

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by: dan goldin