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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CHIME OBLIVION | "Chime Oblivion"

Deathgod Records
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We are very onboard for CHIME OBLIVION, the latest project from John Dywer's (Osees) ever expanding repertoire of bands. Joined by David Barbarossa (Fine Young Cannibals), Weasel Walter (Flying Luttenbachers), Tom Dolas (Osees), and the show stealing vocal performance from H.L. Nelly (FKA Smiley), the band groove through warped and caustic art punk, convulsing through twitchy kaleidoscopic skronk and jubilant rhythms. It's a contorted record that's marvelous and sonically splattered, bending without snapping, a skittering celebration of punk weirdness and reshaped brilliance.

COLD MEAT | "Cake and Arse Party"

Static Shock / Helta Skelta Records
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Cold Meat hit like a sledgehammer to the face or defibrillator to a stopped heart, a glorious burst of animated punk and hardcore that bleeds with feedback and chaotic bliss. Cake and Arse Party is a triumphant return, the energy trembling right off the richter scale as they burn and peel through corrosive tongue-in-cheek rippers. Ash Gash's vocals command with an elastic presence, bouncing between harsh yelps and incredible sarcastic inflections, the subtle shifts piercing and undeniably charismatic. The band embrace the destruction of modern life with a smirk, taking the piss out of everyone from yuppies with private wealth to scumbags at the bar, the band shredding all the while. There is but one Cold Meat, proving once again that their artistic take on punk explodes like an atomic balm (yep, balm).

THE CONVENIENCE | "Like Cartoon Vampires"

Winspear
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New Orleans post-punk duo The Convenience are back with their second full length album, Like Cartoon Vampires. With wiry structures and stark vocals that pop from the mix, the band build a framework that allows them room to explore, magically unraveling from the center as the songs hold firmly in place. Sharp corners and liquid grooves abound as the band balance precision and chaotic outbursts with an exceptional grace. Direct one moment and disorienting the next, The Convenience bring a welcome intelligence and off-kilter approach to modern post-punk.

HELLGIRL | "Hellworld"

Shimp Records
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Following the dissolution of Human People, Hayley Livingston started working on music together with Jesse Paller (June Gloom) and soon came Hellgirl, the duo expanding to a trio together with Emma Witmer (gobbinjr). Hellworld, the band's debut album is incredibly vibrant slacker pop with colossal hooks and earworm melodies at every turn. It's a brash sing-a-long record of never ending barn burners, recklessly funny pop-centric punk tunes, built on gluey choruses, punchy melodies, warts and all.

IRON LUNG | "Adapting // Crawling"

Iron Lung Records
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Iron Lung make their long awaited return with Adapting // Crawling, their first full length in over a decade. The Seattle based duo remain one of hardcore's most punishing throughout an album that is willingly ugly, exposing the ignorance and loss that comes from a corrupt healthcare system, reflected through the pandemic and beyond. It's a cathartic release in its explosive tempo-shifting aggression, decimating one moment and creeping the next, as volatile as ever.

MELVINS | "Thunderball"

Ipecac Records
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Some bands go on tour to support records, other bands release records to support their tour dates. It's probably safe to say the Melvins are in the latter camp at this point in time, a band that's never far from the road. Thunderball, the band's latest, finds King Buzzo reviving the 1983 line-up once more (sans Dale Crover) for a record that's both guttural and melodic. Joined by noise artists Void Manes and Ni Maîtres (and Mike Dillard on drums), there's an eclectic mix of the band’s signature bruising sludge and itchy atmospherics.

MOTHER NATURE | "Loving, Joyful and Free"

Static Shock Records
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Following a demo and a live record, Leeds' Mother Nature release their debut EP, Loving, Joyful and Free, unleashing upon the world a quake of mid-paced hardcore and a tinge of fractured noise rock. Featuring members of The Flex, Brain Dead, and Whipping Post (among others), the band leave a layer of beer guzzling grease and grime hammered into the dirt by stinging riffs, barked vocals, and a primal, thudding, brute force rhythmic assault. The record comes out swinging with the mangled “Dark Passenger” and remains dense, bellowing, and relentless until the end.

WHY BOTHER? | "You Are Part Of The Experiment"

Feel It Records
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Iowa's Why Bother? make punk records for the tape heads. With a mix of lo-fi hiss and irreverent songwriting, the band have been spitting out releases every few months. You Are Part Of The Experiment is their first of the year, an EP that sputters and bubbles, mixing dampened power-pop, agitated punk, buzzing synths, a touch of futuristic dread, and the type of production that swarms in clouds around the buoyant hooks. There’s a distorted sense of immediacy to their demented jangle.

Further Listening:

Adrian Younge - Something About April III
Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution
Coffee Stain - Good Bad Taste
Couch Slut - Live at Roadburn 2024: The Couch Slut Brunch Hour
Evinspragg - The Neo Forms of Soliloquy
Gentle Leader XIV - Joke in the Shadow
Heaven's Gate - Tales From a Blistering Paradise
Inoculation - Actuality
Living Dream - Absolute Devotion
MIEN - MIIEN
Neil Young - Coastal: The Soundtrack
偏執症者 (Paranoid) - MMXXII (reissue)
Tha God Fahim & Nicholas Craven - Dump Gawd: Hyperbolic Time Chamber Rap 10

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by: dan goldin