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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BIMBO | "Bimbo à Deux"

Self Released
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We were late to the party but it should be known, Marquette sibling duo Bimbo released one of our favorite record’s last year with their debut EP, Bimbology. The art rock band have been on tour pretty much ever since, but at some point they found time to record their second record, Bimbo à Deux, a triumphantly weird and vibrant take on imaginative the aforementioned art rock, minimalist punk, and noise rock. With riffs that are as disarming as they are immediate and drums that seem to simultaneously set and dismantle the structures, Gretchen and Dawson McKenzie manage to contort their songs while retaining vivid clarity. There’s a sharp sense of irreverence to Gretchen’s lyrics, but you’d hardly know it from the visceral delivery. Bimbo match feral intensity with playful arrangements, ripping apart an underlining pop simplicity in favor of charming discordance.

BOLDY JAMES & NICHOLAS CRAVEN | "Late To My Own Funeral"

Nicholas Craven Productions
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Boldy James stays hungry. Late To My Own Funeral, his eighth album of the year, is easily one of his best, a chance to flex his lyrics over a diverse set of Nicholas Craven's production. Their third album together in as many years, Boldy sounds energized, his detail heavy street tales wrapping in tight yet dynamic bars, while Craven expands his loops in new directions. There's a remarkable rawness to it all, as Boldy takes an innovative approach to the hustle.

BURSTING | "Bursting"

No Sabes
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Six months after the release of their self-titled debut EP, Bursting have released their self-titled debut LP, an expansion of the EP with an additional three songs and a newly configured track listing. The three new additions finds the Chicago based post-hardcore quartet tangling themselves further into both hypnotic nuance and unglued seismic upheaval with an immediate sense of growth. With members of Yautja and Stress Positions in their ranks, Bursting are veterans of ballistic dexterity, and they continue to refine their approach with a sense of patience and an exploratory nature.

CHRONOPHAGE | "Musical Attack: Communist + Anarchist Friendship"

Post Present Medium
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Three years after their self-titled album (and a great Donna Allen solo record), Chronophage are back! Their latest EP, Musical Attack: Communist + Anarchist Friendship, captures all the ramshackle art punk magic that has made the band so endearing since their early days. With the wheels threatening to come off at any moment, they write undeniably catchy songs, playing intelligent punk music with hearts of gold. Their use of melody is forever radiant while the rhythmic surge always feels delightfully unglued.

CLIPSE | "Let God Sort Em Out"

Roc Nation Distribution
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Legendary rap duo Clipse are back with Let God Sort Em Out, their first album in sixteen years, and it's a mixed bag. To be clear, Pusha T and (especially) Malice are back with the gusto, their rhymes are focused and woven tight with vivid bars and creative metaphors. To hear the brothers back together is great, both MCs are at their best when bouncing verses off each other. The issue with the record lies primarily in the production and the hooks. Pharrell Williams' beats are undeniably lackluster, void of the magic felt throughout the Neptunes prime, but credit due to the Clipse, it’s still a worthy return in spite of that.

DANA GAVANSKI | "Spring Demos (2017)"

Full Time Hobby
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Originally released back in 2017, Dana Gavanski has reissued Spring Demos, an early glimpse at her gorgeous songwriting. As her catalog expands and her profile continues to rise, the demo collection is a captivating look at her roots. It's a beautiful set of songs, each deeply engrained in sparse Laurel Canyon folk traditions and the emotional power of Gavanski's stunning voice. Finding comfort in a state of melancholy grace, Spring Demos is an exploration of reflection.

EROSION / ALTERED DEAD | "Split"

Mechanized Apparatus Revolt Records
Bandcamp

It's been seven long years since Erosion released their volatile masterpiece, Maximum Suffering, but the Vancouver based grindcore band have returned for a split together with tour mates Altered Dead. As one might hope, it's impossibly heavy, a ruthless blend of all encompassing carnage, crusty sludge, and sheer brutality. Blurring the lines between d-beat hardcore and blistering metal, Erosion retain their violent spark, ever brilliant and uncompromising.

GOON | "Dream 3"

Born Losers Records
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Dream 3, the third full length album from Los Angeles' Goon, continues to the highlight the band's impressive depth, a mélange of psychedelic pop, shoegaze, and alternative rock that's kinetic and forward thinking. With nuanced layering and a sense of creative distortion, the band's collective effort feels ever apparent, lost in dreamy Autolux influenced territory one moment only to hum into dissonant and detached noise pop the next. Dream 3 is a record both creative and cohesive.

NEGATIVE CHARGE | "Negative Charge"

Neon Taste Records
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Negative Charge's self-titled album is relentlessly caustic, a throbbing hardcore record that feels akin to brushing your teeth with dynamite. The Winnipeg based band run rampant from one frantic haymaker of a song to the next, the blistering carnage churning and burning all in its path. With buzz saw guitars and stampeding drums, the band bark and howl their way into a tornado of shifting tempos and brute deviance.

NILÜFER YANYA | "Dancing Shoes"

Ninja Tune
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Nilufer Yanya's music often genre defying music takes new forms with and within each release, her blend of art pop, indie rock, folk, soul, and R&B always pushing new ground, fully formed with shapes that are ever fluid. Less than a year after the release of My Method Actor, the London based songwriter returns with Dancing Shoes, a gorgeous EP of slinking soul, hypnotic progressions, and an innate ability to blur the lines between warm acoustics and electronic experimentation.

Further Listening:

All Leather - Amateur Surgery On Half-Hog Abortion Island
Aunt Katrina - This Heat is Slowly Killing Me
Décryptal - Simulacre
Fatboi Sharif & GDP - Endocrine
Fins - Hibernal
Gwenno - Utopia
Mike Polizze - Around Sound
Pygmy Lush - TOTEM
Rip Van Winkle - Blasphemy
Supreme Joy - 410,757,864,530 Dead Carps
Tha God Fahim & Nicholas Craven - Dump Gawd: Hyperbolic Time Chamber Rap 15 - Final Explosion
Tha God Fahim & Richard Milli - Omega Beams
Thank - Live @ Wharf Chambers
TVO - All Aboard Choo Choo Fuck You
Why Patterns - Screamers

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin