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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ALAN SPARHAWK | "With Trampled By Turtles"

Sub Pop Records
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Alan Sparhawk has most definitely earned the right to do whatever he wants. Following the tragic loss of his partner Mimi Parker and the subsequent dissolution of Low, Sparhawk released White Roses, My God, an album of electronic beats and auto-tuned vocals. Low were never afraid to push boundaries, but Sparhawk’s solo debut felt alien to his previous work. A year later and he’s back with a new record, With Trampled by Turtles, which as the title suggests, pairs Sparhawk together with Minnesota’s own Trampled By Turtles. The gorgeous album is built on earthy folk inspired rock, as the emotional weight of Sparhawk’s voice is once again gripping and resonant.

AUTOBAHNS & ELVIS 2 | "Split"

Goodbye Boozy
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Dripping with scuzz and ballistic punk excess, Germany's Autobahns and Australia's Elvis 2 (or perhaps Elvis II) come together for a new split, with two sordid and propulsive punk rippers from each band. Autobahns sound hyper-charged as they kick and thrash through triumphantly unwieldy synth punk tunes. Elvis 2 operate in more of a blown out garage punk territory, the song's rippling with static and fuzzy melodies.

BILLIAM & BUSTED HEAD RACKET | "Kidnapped!"

Goodbye Boozy
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Two years after their first collaboration, Melbourne punk wizards Billiam and Busted Head Racket team up once again to make supremely rattled and vibrant lo-fi egg punk. Goodbye Boozy has paired together the two EPs on Kidnapped!, one spastic and highly enjoyable 7", that at times sounds as though the VHS player has eaten your favorite acidic punk records. It's incessant in the best of ways, warped, bubbling, and full of character.

CLAMM | "Serious Acts"

Meat Machine
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Melbourne's CLAMM return with their third full length, Serious Acts, a dense and boisterous record of axiety riddled of noise rock and post-punk that claws at a failing society. With a destructive resolve and a collective empathy, the trio rip and swarm through songs that lament atrocity while managing to be acutely aware of their own personal mental drain. CLAMM are learning how far their sound will bend before it snaps.

GIVE OVER | "Done In"

Jungle Noise Records
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GIVE OVER (fka FAxFO) is a Leeds based hardcore band that specializes in short grinding songs and serpentine fury, weaving between harsh throat shredding beat down punk and sinewy sludge blasting forward in minute long eruptions. Led by the great Steve Myles (Thank, Cattle, Grub Nap), the band rip like a tornado through a variety of skull crushing tempos while the intensity stays forever pushed into the red.

RETIREMENT | "Attention Economy"

Iron Lung Records
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Attention Economy, the latest from Portland hardcore maniacs Retirement, is a decidedly crushing look at these modern times. There’s a feeling that everything won’t be okay, but a shared catharsis is available. With a blown out density and a mid-fi production aesthetic, their new album sounds great, a feral dose of violent hardcore with plenty of detail and metallic rust peeling buzzsaw riffs. Retirement bludgeon all senses as they dig and thrash into the corrosive disdain.

RITUAL CROSS | "Ritual Cross"

Self Released
Bandcamp

I have a great admiration for David Anthony, as a person, a music journalist, and now as one of the guitarists in Chicago's Ritual Cross, a great new hardcore band. The quintet's corrosive self-titled EP pounds and slides, the riffs pouring like an avalanche through semi-crust production and caustic metal tinged progressions. It's an incredibly promising start, a must listen for fans of Iron Lung and Toxic State Records releases.

ROME STREETZ & CONDUCTOR WILLIAMS | "Trainspotting"

Mass Appeal
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A year after the Daringer produced Hatton Garden Holdup, Rome Streetz is back at it, this time teaming up with the great Conductor Williams for a new full length, Trainspotting. It's a perfect pairing, the intricacies of both the rhymes and the production feel tailor made to one another. Operating at the height of their respective games, Conductor flips dusty samples into spooky boom-bap gems that feel entirely timeless while Rome Streetz runs rampant, his elastic delivery and raw lyricism cutting like diamonds on tracks like the west coast burner “10 Toes” and the hard as nails coke rap bounce of “Blood In Boogers”.

TY SEGALL | "Possession"

Drag City Records
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It's always great to hear Ty Segall head down a rabbit hole of inspiration, the process taking him in different directions with each release. Last year's Three Bells was a catalog highlight, an album that leaned into prog magic. With Possession, Segall aimed for a narrative lyrical journey, resulting in some of the sharpest songwriting of his career on an album that feels endlessly engaging and inherently cohesive.

Further Listening:

Beige Palace & Lo Egin - Split
Erica Eso - Songs In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand
Illuminati Hotties - Nickel on the Fountain Floor
Irreversible Entanglements - Irreversible Entanglements (IA11 Edition)
Labrador - My Version Of Desire
Lung - The Swankeeper
Masta Killa - Balance
Nina Nastasia - Dogs (reissue)
Nina Nastasia - Run To Ruin (reissue)
Oddisee - En Route
SAVAK - SQUAWK!
Tha God Fahim & Nicholas Craven - Dump Gawd: Hyperbolic Time Chamber Rap 12

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin