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 kept brief and bite sized, snippets to catch your interest. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are just some of the many we think you should check out.

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HYPER GAL | "After Image"

Skin Graft Records
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Japanese duo HYPER GAL return with their second album, After Image, a hazy blend of noise punk, no-wave, deranged shoegaze, and experimental pop. Both jarring at times and hypnotic at others, it's an amorphous record with no definable shape, twitching amid lush synth loops, blistering rhythms, avant-garde noise, and sugary vocals.

THE JESUS LIZARD | "Rack"

Ipecac Records
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Rejoice, The Jesus Lizard are back. Rack, their first album in 26 years, is a glorious return to form for arguably the best noise rock band of all time. Rack isn't a mere nostalgia trip, it sits comfortably among there best records, a sordid and vibrant burst of manic energy, writhing and convulsing between atonal carnage, locked in grooves, and David Yow's signature brand of intelligent deviance.

KAL MARKS | "Wasteland Baby"

Exploding In Sound Records
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Kal Marks return with Wasteland Baby, a triumphant new record built on a range of emotional depth, traversing from contempt to love as the record unravels. The band are pushing new sonic territory with thick yet nimble grooves, subtle pop inclinations, and layered melodies, each song expanding the cinematic post-punk/noise rock scope, rewarding repeat listens on a conceptual album best experienced in full.

LEAFING | "Folding Then To Now"

Sad Cactus Records
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Folding Then To Now, the latest album from Leafing, is built on a sense of instability, carefully settling into place only to dismantle and rebuild. The Brooklyn based quartet play with emotional resonance, bending their efforts to contort with the weight of the vocals for a dreamy yet winding effort.

LERRYN | "As A Mother"

Redundant Span Records
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London's Lerryn has discovered the next level of love and dedication, becoming a mother and starting a family. As A Mother, her solo debut, captures the magnetism of being there for those you care about, attempting to nurture and provide unequivocal love, to watch your baby grow and blossom. while balancing your personal needs. The thing is though, you don’t need to be a mother, or even a parent, to understand the love that glows from Lerryn’s songs.

WE ARE WINTER'S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN | "No More Apocalypse Father"

Constellation
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The music of WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN feels a million miles wide, a vast expanse of arid landscapes with an endless horizon. Comprised of Efrim Manuel Menuck (GY!BE), Mat Ball (Big|Brave), Jonathan Downs, and Patch One (both of Ada), the quartet’s collective oeuvre offers the project a sense of familiarity, but the band opt for open collaboration, the songs void of rigid structural definition or predictably.

WENDY EISENBERG | "Viewfinder"

American Dreams
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Wendy Eisenberg's new album Viewfinder explores shifts in perspective and what she describes as disorientation in clarity following a Lasik procedure. The musical vision becomes kaleidoscopic through gorgeous and patient jazz inspired compositions, fluttering through expansive structures and serene performances, both attentive, graceful, dissonant, challenging, and brilliantly artistic.

FURTHER LISTENING:

Allegra Krieger - Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine
Ben Troy - The Book
Dale Crover - Glossolalia
Local H - Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles? (20th Anniversary Reissue)
Lunar Vacation - Everything Matters, Everything's Fire
Mui Zyu - Nothing or Something to Die For (Cantonese Tasting Menu)
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die (30th Anniversary)
Porches - Shirt
Snoozer - Mid-Earth

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by: post-trash staff