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Post-Trash presents Mid-Year "Essentials" 2025

by Dan Goldin (@paintingwithdan)

Here we are at the middle of this already way too long year. The world is in shambles, but there’s still new music to keep us going, each day providing the promise of something great to listen to. Which brings us to this Mid-Year Report, a selection of fifty hand-picked records (and another fifty in the “further listening” section) that come highly recommended by one person with questionable taste. There’s a lot of music out there and it certainly doesn’t all get the coverage it deserves, so let Post-Trash shine a light on a handful of highlights. It's impossible to listen to everything, but these albums have been in heavy rotation in my headphones and on my record player. Your next favorite band/artist could be out there, it's just a matter of listening to something new. Popular opinion isn’t the only opinion, sometimes you have to dig to find the real gems. Buy some records. Support the music you love. I hope you have a good time listening. Thank you for reading Post-Trash. - DG

Here’s fifty more records that should come highly recommend. They are every bit as worth your time as the record’s featured above, but for a series of arbitrary reasons (mostly hours in the day), here they are. Please do check them out, especially the ones you aren’t familiar with.

AAA GRIPPER “We Invented Work For The Common Good” | ALAN SPARHAWK “With Trampled By Turtles” | ALIENATOR “Meat Locker” | ALPHA HOPPER “Let Heaven and Nature Sing II” | ANIKA “Abyss” | ARSE “Complete Arse“ | BAD BREEDING “Blood Manifest” | BIG BREAK Exile On Exchange St““ | BLAZING TOMB “Singles From The Tomb” | CHE NOIR “The Color Chocolate 2” | CLAMM “Serious Acts“ | COFFEE STAIN “Good Bad Taste“ | DEAD GOWNS “It's Summer, I Love You, and I'm Surrounded By Snow” | DEGRAVED “Premonition of Blasphemy“ | ERASER “Hideout” | THE EX “If Your Mirror Breaks” | FACS “Wish Defense” | FIB “Heavy Lifting” | FITS “Hits EP” | FLORIST “Jellywish” | FLORRY “Sounds Like…” | GRAILS “Miracle Music” | IRON LUNG “Adapting // Crawling” | ISMATIC GURU “An Incredible Amount of Overwhelming Information“ | LINA TULLGREN “Decide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking” | LOW HEALER “Hold Music“ | MESS ESQUE “Jay Marie, Comfort Me” | MIKE “Showbiz!” | MOGWAI “The Bad Fire” | NAPE NECK “Nape Neck” | NECRON 9 “People Die“ | OLIVIA’S WORLD “Greedy & Gorgeous” | OPEN HEAD “What Is Success” | OVLOV “Buds Demos” | PACO CATHCART “Down On Them” | POND 1000 “DaffodiL” | RICHARD DAWSON “End of the Middle” | RITCHOT TEXTILES “II” | RITUAL CROSS “Ritual Cross“ | SALT “The Books Are Blue” | SLEEPER’S BELL “Clover” | SÖLEX “Sölex” | SUMAC & MOOR MOTHER “The Film” | TUNIC “A Harmony of Loss Has Been Sung” | ULTRA LIGHTS “Ultra Lights” | WATER MACHINE “God Park” | WHELPWISHER “Same Mistakes“ | WHITNEY’S PLAYLAND “Long Rehearsal” | WRETCHED BLESSING “Psychic Barriers To Entry” | YOUNG WIDOWS “Power Sucker”