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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BOLDY JAMES & YOUR BOY POSCA | "Magnolia Leflare"

Near Mint
Spotify | Apple

It's been three whole weeks since Boldy James dropped a record (Conversational Pieces, the gem of the bunch), so naturally the prolific Detroit rapper is back. Magnolia Leflare, the new EP produced in full by Your Boy Posca, is a short burst of jazzy psychedelic hip-hop, the surrealist beats allowing Boldy's cold minimalist flow to cut like razors and diamonds, even on his seventh record of this year.

BRNDA | "Live Near Charlie's: Philadelphia 2021"

Crafted Sounds
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

It's been four years since BRNDA released Do You Like Salt? but it would seem the DC art-punk band are coming back to life. This week the band shared Live Near Charlie's: Philadelphia 2021, a live set recorded for the late great Under The First Floor podcast (a favorite of ours). The set finds the band buzzing with energy, the sound darting around the room, capturing a creative spark that's equal parts charm and combustion.

FLORRY | "Sounds Like..."

Dear Life Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Florry come out swinging with Sounds Like... a record that's bursting with layered guitar leads, homespun fried country hits, and rollicking camaraderie. Francie Medosch and her seven piece band play maximalist versions of intimate music, exploring earnest emotions by way of swarming twang and big greasy Crazy Horse abandon. Sounds Like… is raw, rugged, and full of heart.

MOONTYPE | "I Let The Wind Push Down On Me"

Orindal Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Four years after their debut, the great Moontype have returned. I Let The Wind Push Down On Me is indie rock at its most astounding, led by Margaret McCarthy’s immaculate songwriting - a mix of glistening beauty and compositional grit. Moontype have always been adept at lulling you in only to subtly let the ground give way, and they does just that throughout a record of sweetly nuanced art folk songs.

OSSUARY | "Abhorrent Worship"

Me Saco Un Ojo / Darkness Shall Rise Productions
Bandcamp

Death metal at its most putrid and septic, the long awaited full length from Wisconsin’s Ossuary has crawled out from the primordial ooze. Abhorrent Worship brings a wretched fusion of doom and death metal that feels as violently cinematic as it does disgusting. The songs lurch their way forward from the bowls of despair and depravity, grinding in slow motion as the band lay waste with riffs that feel pulled through hell’s most rotten swamps.

SCIENCE MAN | "Monarch Joy"

Swimming Faith Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Science Man is John Toohill's (Ismatic Guru, Alpha Hopper) dystopian hardcore project turned bulldozer of a full band. The project, and it’s ever expanding world of combustible dread, has been melting our senses for the past six years, but it would seem that little could prepare us for this version of the band, as they present a caterwauling atonal descrambling of our brains. Monarch Joy is a full band effort, best described as the difference between the claustrophobic alarm of sci-fi terror versus a roving gang of ruthless maniacs.

STEREOLAB | "Instant Holograms On Metal Film"

Duophonic / Warp Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Having inspired an entire generation in the years since their last record, the legendary Stereolab have made their triumphant return. Fifteen years after the release of Not Music, the band are back with Instant Holograms On Metal Film, a record that play's to the quartet's many strengths, from expansive lounge-pop tinged psych to jazzy post-punk and retro futuristic jangle. There's much cosmic space to explore and the band sound laser focused, bending between shapes new and old.

Further Listening:

Chepang - Jhyappa
Credit - The Last Few Years
Dr. Sure’s Unusual Practice - Blue
Forty Winks - Love Is a Dog From Hell
Squirrel Flower - Live at Top Note Theatre
Wipes - Don't Tell My Parents
Worker - Demo CS

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin