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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BILLY WOODS | "GOLLIWOG"

Backwoodz Studioz
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billy woods is one of the all time greats, a true hip-hop visionary whose raw sense of style is met with an equally raw sense of substance. He's a rapper with no shortage of masterpieces and you can add GOLLIWOG to the last, a record that holds a thematic ground even as the production shifts between a selection of in-demand producers (The Alchemist, Kenny Segal, Conductor Williams, Preservation, etc). With a sense of terror at times and a dystopian glare, woods continues to bend time and space with thought provoking bars that unfold with repeat listens. Everything about GOLLIWOG has an impeccable vibrance, top tier beats, top tier rhymes, and yet anxiety inducing vibes.

CRYPTOPSY | "None So Vile" (Reissue)

Season Of Mist
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We don't tend to highlight reissues in this column, but there's few records out there quite like Cryptopsy's death metal masterpiece, None So Vile. Originally released in 1996, the album plays with absurdly fast tempos somehow delivered with an ungodly clarity. Every spastic riff and crushing rhythmic shift is done with brutal precision, with an emphasis on the brutality. Incredibly violent and blisteringly technical, None So Vile remains a death metal landmark, a berserk explosion of pure unhinged chaos.

LE PAIN | "Dirge Technique"

Slouch Records
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Le Pain are making French pop from the heart of Los Angeles, their music jangling with a rich harmonized elegance. After a few years of wonderful singles, the band's full length debut, Dirge Technique, arrives fully realized, built on sweetly psychedelic compositions, a kinetic power-pop charm, and an unwavering glow that sweeps from their soft hooks and dreamy resolve.

LE VOLUME COURBE | "Planet Ping Pong"

Duophonic Super 45s
Spotify | Apple

Le Volume Courbe, the enigmatic solo project of the French born Charlotte Marionneau, is back with Planet Ping Pong, her first new album in ten years. Well worth the wait, the record is a shimmering vision of experimental pop, dreamy but primal, beautiful yet intrinsically strange. It's an album worth getting lost in, allowing the twitchy minimalism and art pop exuberance to traverse as it may.

MCLUSKY | "The World Is Still Here And So Are We"

Ipecac Records
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The magic of mclusky has always resided in their ability to pair intimidating brilliance with sheer stupidity, and to do it with noise rock songs that are as insistent and sordid as they are catchy. Over two decades have passed since their last album, and yet the world is still here and so are we has a caustic spar. The songs are deranged, punchy, and dynamic, finding bliss in agitation and absurdity. Falco's sense for irreverence is prickly yet radiant, his tightly wound sense of humor forever coming unglued as the band slink between unnerving post-hardcore and explosive punk rippers.

SALT | "The Books Are Blue"

Erased! Tapes
Bandcamp | Spotify

Recorded to a 4-track cassette and released to coincide with Salt's tour dates, The Books Are Blue is a gorgeous document of Jonathan Nankof's songs at their most stripped back. The homespun collection shares some DNA with early HJOL and the earliest of Porches releases, tugging at our heartstrings with subtle dynamics, harmonized layers, and genuinely fantastic songwriting.

SHARK? | "A Simple Life"

Self Released
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Eight years after the release of the Abilene EP, Shark? have returned. The Brooklyn based slacker punk DIY champs of the early 2010s are back with A Simple Life, recorded back in 2022 and recently completed. The band are both ripping back into their ramshackle garage pop tendencies and exploring new ideas, textures, and structures. There’s a low key ease to their songwriting that results in memorable tunes that are relaxed yet undeniably engaging.

WISHBONE ZOE | "Blue Distances"

Sad Cactus
Bandcamp

Wishbone Zoe has covered a lot of ground over the past decade, from gentle acoustic singer/songwriter territory to experimental sound collage and beyond. Blue Distances finds Zosia Kochanski focused on folk songwriting once again, her voice and acoustic guitar building their own worlds of welcome escape. There's a stunning ease to the songs, with Wishbone Zoe's beautiful voice acting as a mesmerizing comfort.

Further Listening:

Butthole Surfers - Live at Leather Fly
Deradoorian - Ready For Heaven
Knowledge The Pirate - The Round Table
MIKE & Tony Seltzer - Pinball II
Preoccupations - Ill At Ease
Thom Yorke & Mark Pritchard - Tall Tales
TVOD - Party Time

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin