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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BLACK EYES | "Hostile Design"

Dischord Records
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It's been twenty-one years since Black Eyes released their cacophonous second album Cough, but against all odds, the DC based art punk band are back with a new record, the accurately named Hostile Design. The band's rhythmic onslaught (a benchmark for double drums) and their flailing sense of melodic contortion return in fine form, two decades later and their vision of no wave punk is as freaky as it is free.

BRUISER AND BICYCLE | "Deep Country"

Self Released
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Grab a cup of coffee, there's a lot to take in on Bruiser and Bicycle's latest album, Deep Country. Clocking in at 74 minutes, the Albany based quartet leave no idea unexplored, sharpening their idiosyncratic mix of folk rock, prog, jangle pop, and emo tendencies into a gentle sort of ease. Their songs have an innate ability to seemingly settle into one place before opening up into another as they continually push at the framework.

EXEK | "Live at RRR"

Legno
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Recorded back in 2024, Live at RRR captures EXEK live on-air at Melbourne's most celebrated independent radio station. With a blend of disorientating post-punk, dub-infused krautrock, and hypnotic psych, the band lock into a career spanning set that swirls in sinister shadows with rhythmic density that feels inexplicably dangerous. It's that EXEK magic happening in real time, a surrealist sense of dread at its most captivating.

GREG JAMIE | "Across a Violet Pasture"

Orindal Records
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Greg Jamie's music feels like a deep breath of fresh air, a mental reset that's good for both mind, body, and spirit. The Maine based songwriter is back with Across A Violet Pasture, a stunning art folk record that blends natural and ethereal beauty, a balance between drifting atmospherics and gentle immediacy. Joined by a collective of the region's finest musicians, Jamie and company offer some much needed comfort for these trying times, a pastoral blanket of deeply woven charms.

HANNAH FRANCES | "Nested In Tangles"

Fire Talk
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Hannah Frances' music is astounding, her arrangements finding the sweet spot between beauty and chaos. Her latest album, Nested In Tangles, (one of more aptly titled records in recent memory) is a widescreen blend of experimental folk and vivid prog rock, a record that's compositionally knotted but reliant on the brilliance and warmth of Frances' vocal gymnastics. It's a wild listen, yet carefully constructed, the dexterity pulled off with an impressive grace.

MOBB DEEP | "Infinite"

Mass Appeal Records
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How you feel about a Mobb Deep album in 2025 (seven years after Prodigy passed away) probably depends on your personal expectations. Crafted by Havoc and The Alchemist, Infinite is the duo's first posthumous album, pairing together unreleased verses from Prodigy with new verses from Havoc, and while it's not a return to The Infamous, it's still a great reminder that the QB legends embody the essence of NYC hip-hop's grit and glory, a blunt album of street anthems and tough bars.

VANGAS | "You Left Us In The Spring"

Chunklet Industries
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While Vangas may have started out as a noise rock band (and a great noise rock band at that), the group have progressed into something far less classifiable on their third album, You Left Us In The Spring. Having moved from Atlanta to New York City, the band embrace the more experimental edges of no wave, art rock, and post-hardcore to create something that's vivid in composition but fractured in delivery. Their latest feels all-encompassing, a sonic stranglehold void of structural shape but delightfully heavy in dynamics.

VILE APPARITION | "Malignity"

Dark Descent / Me Saco Un Ojo Records
Bandcamp

Vile Apparition release their second full length, Malignity, a visceral beat down of a death metal album that seems to ooze brutality at the seams. The Melbourne based quartet play with tempos and textures, dropping in and out of the maelstrom as they wind through bludgeoning riffs, stampeding drums, and enough shifts to split your skull and leave you speaking in tongues. Malignity runs rampant with brute technicality and all the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the face.

Further Listening:

A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms (25th Anniversary Edition)
Endless Joy - Endless Joy
Guitar - We're Headed To The Lake
Jay Worthy - Once Upon A Time Vol. 2
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Corporal
Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath
Tom Petty - Wildflowers (30th Anniversary Reissue)

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin