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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DIABOLIZER | "Murderous Revelations"

Dark Descent / Me Saco Un Ojo Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Istanbul's Diabolizer have returned and good fucking grief, Murderous Revelations is ruthless. The death metal band's (which features members of Hyperdontia, Septage, Engulfed, etc) latest is sheer relentless brutality played at blinding speeds with an unflinching sonic clarity. Demonic and putrid (little about it feels human), Diabolizer erupt with a marathon of complex rhythms and filthy shifting riffs that hit with the subtlety (and blast radius) of a nuclear bomb. It’s gross, it’s violent, it’s an entry way to the depths of hell not for the faint of heart, which is to say that this one ripssssssss. Like chewing a mouthful of rusty nails, Murderous Revelations is difficult to stomach with its ultra merciless structures, an aural pillage of death metal pulverization and unglued dexterity.

FUGITIVE BUBBLE | "What Will Happen If We Stop?"

Sorry State Records
Bandcamp

What Will Happen If We Stop? is Fugitive Bubble's second full length album, a record in constant flux, as the Olympia based art punk band jitter and contort from track to track. Combining elements of scuzzy pop and street punk amid corrosive hardcore tempos, Fugitive Bubble have made an unpredictable record where each song adds to the greater picture. With duel vocals from Harley Moore and Kurt Stevens keeping an energetic resolve, the band bounce between blistering punk, riot grrrl influenced anthems, primitive guitar interludes, and a singular dip into fried SST styled cow-punk. There’s an odd sensibility to it, and it’s perfect in that regard. The record rips from start to finish with an adventurous sense of freedom.

JUNE MCDOOM | "June McDoom"

Temporary Residence Ltd
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

June McDoom's new self-titled CD isn't exactly a new release, but it's still an essential one, especially for anyone new to the project. Collecting her debut single and two subsequent EPs, the set is a complete vision (to date) of June McDoom's gorgeous swirling folk music - gentle, graceful, and surreal. There's an experimental glow to the way that McDoom writes music, creating great songs that float amid very deliberate (and wonderful) production choices.

MAMALARKY | "Hex Key"

Epitaph
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Mamalarky return with Hex Key, their third album, and first for Epitaph. Back in Los Angeles, the band are taking a more majestic approach to their brand of art pop. Their latest is less knotted than their previous records, but the arrangements remain thoughtful, blending dreamy yet vividly detailed synth pop with distorted indie rock, big on hooks and dynamic charms.

PRIMAL BRAIN | "Is It All A Game?"

Earth Girl Tapes
Bandcamp

The release description for Primal Brain's new EP Is It All A Game? wants you to know this record could only come from the "true weirdos" of Oklahoma City, and that's seemingly all you need to know. A furious blend of unhinged hardcore and blistering punk, this record sounds as though it could be ripped apart at the seams without a moment's notice. It's refreshingly deranged but you never get the sense the band take themselves all too seriously (in the best of ways).

RAZ FRESCO & FUTUREWAVE | "Stadium Lo Champions"

WavGodMusic
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Following a productive 2024 that saw Raz Fresco release four albums (including a record with DJ Muggs), the Canadian MC teams up with producer Futurewave (Rome Streetz, Boldy James, Daniel Son) for Stadium Lo Champions, their first collaborative LP since 2021's Gorgeous Polo Sportsmen. Fresco wraps tight stream of conscious bars over Futurewave's hazy psychedelic beats, a deluge of both lyrical abstraction and conscious sentiment, golden age hip-hop (see “Cyanide”), and elastic rhymes that land somewhere between Quelle Chris and Mobb Deep.

RIPPED TO SHREDS | "No Glory Here To Be Found - Live at Bandcamp"

Relapse Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Ripped To Shreds have been churning out malevolent and chaotic death metal for the past seven years, grinding a seismic hole in the earth with nasty riffs and brute force. No Glory Here To Be Found captures the band's primal onslaught live from Bandcamp's Oakland studio space, a document of shifting OSDM decimation and the band's grizzly precision.

Further Listening:

Bedridden - Moths Strapped To Eachother’s Backs
Ben Seretan - Youth Pastoral (Deluxe)
Casper Skulls - Kit-Cat
Fantasy of a Broken Heart - Chaos Practitioner
The Mars Volta - Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio
Robber Robber - Wild Guest
Tha God Fahim & Drega33 - Lethal Weapon 2

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin