Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlight

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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ANKHLEJOHN & AUGUST FANON | "LIVE! At The Disco"

Veblen Goods
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ANKHLEJOHN, one of the underground's best rappers, returns with LIVE! At The Disco, a new record produced in full by August Fanon (Armand Hammer, Mach-Hommy, Fly Anakin), a thirty minute highlight real for Lordy's raw lyricism and elastic delivery. While some MCs tend to have their conscious tracks, their street tracks, and their nastier tracks, ANKHLEJOHN weaves it all together, spitting knowledge, braggadocios darts, and strip club bars together… just another day in the life of DC's best lyricist.

BILLIAM | "Sylvie S Goes To Hawaii"

Jarama 45 Recs
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Sylvie S Goes To Hawaii, the latest EP from Melbourne's Billiam, is a tribute (of sorts) to the 45 RPM 7" single format, a record designed with the specific time constraints in mind. Side A is a single five minute track while Side B contains five minute long songs, the highlight coming in the title track, a song that gives Billiam's synth punk exuberance a chance to stretch out, rattling from one section into the next. It's another weird, energetic, and wonderful addition to the project's ever expanding catalog.

CHE NOIR | "The Color Chocolate 2"

Poetic Movement Inc.
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Following an album length collaboration with Superior back in March, Che Noir is back at with her latest album, The Color Chocolate 2, a definitive statement that proves her lyrical dominance. The Buffalo based rapper brings a chilling realism to bars about poverty, drugs, and the weight that it leaves on community one moment (the great "Buy vs Sell") before moving on to talk her shit on essential tracks like "Show & Tell" and the vivid reflections of "Stories".

CRYPTOPSY | "An Insatiable Violence"

Season of Mist
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Death metal as a genre is meant to be extreme, but few push that level of extremity quite like Montreal's Cryptopsy. They've spent the past three decades obliterating violent tempos with seismic brutality, winding and convulsing in the eye of the storm. An Insatiable Violence does nothing to tame or slow their vile nature, if anything, the record touches on their most ballistic material, a whirlwind of demonic complexity, devestation, and drummer Flo Mounier's unrelenting carnage.

LITTLE MAZARN | "Mustang Island"

Dear Life Records
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Mustang Island, the latest album from Austin's Little Mazarn, adopts a strong indie pop presence without losing the band's stunning folk music core. It feels like a new vision of what the project can be yet the band manage to retain the warmth and natural glow of Lindsey Verrill's songs. Built on gorgeous harmonies, sparse banjo, weary country, electronic experimentation, and gentle acoustics, it's an immersive record that's soft, beautiful, and forward thinking.

LUKAH & STATIK SELEKTAH | "A Lost Language Found"

Raw Materials
Spotify | Apple

Lukah is never at a loss for words, his conceptual records known to unfold with their own unique psychedelic take on conscious hip-hop. A Lost Language Found pairs him together with Statik Selektah, the beacon of boom-bap revivalism. Lukah finds himself spitting caustic brilliance over beats that would make DJ Premier and DJ Muggs proud, trampling the production with an unshakable urgency, attention to detail, and a reverence for linguistic gymnastics. There's a lot to unpack (and lots of between song banter), but it's well worth the time. “Native Tongues” and “My Sermon,” Lukah’s collaboration with Memphis legend Eightball are worth the price of admission alone.

TROPICAL FUCK STORM | "Fairyland Codex"

Fire Records
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It's been a challenging four years since Tropical Fuck Storm's last full length, for the band and our rapidly burning world at large. Fairytale Codex, the band's fourth album seems to reflect tough times, there's a different energy to it, its more reliant on restraint and reflection. Have no fear though, the Melbourne based quartet remain one of the world's most forward thinking rock bands, their bent and visionary music a blend of glowing pop, dissonant punk, noise rock, and folk that feels nearly impossible yet entirely natural. They've peeled back on their more abrasive tendencies and some of the volume for an all encompassing record of psychedelic wonder and dynamic grace that gets better with every repeat listen.

WATER MACHINE | "God Park"

FatCat Records
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Two years after their debut EP, Glasgow's Water Machine release their first full length, God Park, an energetic art pop record that delves in punk, garage pop, and a kitchen sink of good taste. The record is infectious, striking with a kinetic pulse and a radiant simplicity that lets their hooks do the vast majority of impact. There's an undeniably modern bent to the lyrics and the struggles they present, while the music stretches between decades of post-punk bliss.

WHITNEY'S PLAYLAND | "Long Rehearsal"

Dandy Boy / Meritorio Records
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San Francisco indie-pop band Whitney’s Playland are back with new EP Long Rehearsal, their first new music since expanding from a duo to a quartet. With an expanded range, Inna Showalter (Magic Fig), George Tarlson, and co. offer delicately arranged melancholic jangle pop and dreary fuzz pop rattlers, the highlight coming via "Talk," an immersive song that glistens with a hint of sunshine amid the steady rain.

Further Listening:

EELS - Souljacker (reissue)
Gilla Band - The Early Years (2025 Reissue)
Goat Girl - Below The Waste (Orchestrated)
Haress - Skylarks
Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon
Jack Tickner & Ollie Becker - POACEAE
Knub - Crub
MJ Lenderman & Wednesday - Guttering (reissue)
Nuclear Fear - Pantomime Of Power
Ollie Becker - Bitter Until Soaked
Tan Cologne - Unknown Beyond
Tha God Fahim & Nicholas Craven - Dump Gawd: Hyperbolic Time Chamber Rap 14

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin