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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D. MCCARTNEY | "For Those Not Here"

Self Released
Bandcamp

While best known for the claustrophobic gloom and experimental post-punk oeuvre of both The Drin and The Serfs, Cincinnati's D. McCartney is always busy with one project or another (see also: Crime of Passing, Motorbike). This week he released For Those Not Here, a solo EP dedicated to the passing of his grandmother. While the mood is somber, it doesn't stop McCartney from reaching into a disparate yet colorful set of influences, pulling together elements of working-class folk, careening and immersive noise punk, and warped acoustics.

DAZY | "Bad Penny"

Lame-O Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Dazy's unshakeable hot-streak of surprise released EPs continues this week with Bad Penny, a triumphantly fuzzy power-pop record overloaded with skyscraping hooks. James Goodson has a knack for writing breezy alternative rock gems, tapping into Brit pop and jangle punk influences to give his songs the nuance that lies between the soaring FM gold earworms that the album is built on.

E.R. VISIT | "my children will ignore you, my children will type amen"

Self Released
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Stone Filipczak, one half of the acclaimed art rock band @, returns to his solo project, E.R. Visit for new album, my children will ignore you, my children will type amen. While potentially a very "online" record (it's name comes from a meme), the music that Filipczak crafts is as gorgeous as it is dynamic, exploring textures of psych folk, art rock, and experimental pop. It would seem nothing is off limits throughout the album and yet there's a cohesive throughline that ties it all together.

LIQUID CROSS | "Don't Think EP"

Strange Mono
Bandcamp

Don't Think is the debut EP from Eugene, Oregon punk trio Liquid Cross (mems Milked, Cool Piss, End Time), a set of five rippers that prefer to lurk in the smoke filled shadows. With a healthy Wipers influence leading the way, these songs skid and cascade with dimly lit melodic distortion, muscle, and perpetual energy, barreling out of the Pacific Northwest garages into a blown out speaker near you. As a bonus, all proceeds from the album benefit Trans Lifeline, an organization providing trans peer support.

SOULFLY | "Chama"

Nuclear Blast Records
Spotify | Apple

Max Cavalera is basically the grand ambassador of metal. He lives it and breathes it, but most importantly, he genuinely loves it. After tours playing Sepultura and Nailbomb albums, he's back with Soulfly's thirteenth record, Chama. While Soulfly's earliest roots rest firmly in nu-metal, he's spent the past two decades digging back into the depths of thrash and death metal, a two headed beast of brute force amid some boundary pushing ideas. Some of the detours are an acquired taste, but Cavalera and co are still decimating when at breakneck speed.

Further Listening:

Buio Omega - On The Prowl
Fatboi Sharif & Roper Williams - Goth Girl On The Enterprise
Horse Jumper of Love - Disaster Trick (Deluxe Edition)
Jim White - Inner Day
Joyer - On The Other End of the Line…
Joyful Noise Players - Live at Big Ears
Just Mustard - We Were Just Here
Oruã - Slacker
Rearranged Face - Rear Ranged Face
Teenage Tom Petties - Rally The Tropes
Tortoise - Touch
Verity Den - Wet Glass
YUNGMORPHEUS - A Spyglass to One’s Face

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin