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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CLIFFORD | "Golden Caravan"

Sipsman
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It feels as though Clifford has arrived with Golden Caravan. The Boston based slowcore band have pulled out all the stops, embracing their molasses dripped dynamic shifts and weary melodies with a sense of comfort and confidence. The songwriting is gorgeous, the tonality is warm, and their lapses into heavier territory feel both natural and eye opening. With nods to local heroes such as Pile and Horse Jumper of Love, Clifford are reshaping their influences into their own sonic vision, equal parts serene and crushing.

EDITRIX | "The Big E"

Joyful Noise Recordings
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Editrix have returned! Three years after their second album, the trio are back and as astounding as ever. The Big E is an unbridled vision of camaraderie within the band, each of the members so profoundly brilliant in shaping the erratic puzzle of their sound. An ecstatic blend of noise rock, art punk, and brainy post-hardcore, The Big E is massively enjoyable and sincere yet caustic and playful. Editrix come together like superglue to throw expectation off its axis, but dear lord, this album sure does shred. Give them all the flowers. Editrix forever.

FREDDIE GIBBS & THE ALCHEMIST | "Alfredo 2"

ESGN / ALC Records
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Five years after the original, the collaborative magic between Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist remains mystifying on Alfredo 2. As one of mainstream hip-hop's more nimble MCs, Gibbs proves his ability to run wild over anything Alchemist is cooking up, the record moving between locked-in bars and detached elastic beats with grace and grit. Gibbs might be the perfect partner for ALC's more adventurous production, a rapper able to capture the soul of the streets with a delivery more malleable than most.

GALORE | "Dirt"

Speakeasy Studios SF
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San Francisco indie pop quartet Galore are back with Dirt, their second full length, a record that embraces the highly collaborative nature of the band. With songwriting spread between each of the members, the band dip into disparate sounds, jangling between power-pop, infectious garage rock (check out the exceptional "Zinger"), dreamy twang, and sun soaked punk, each song highlighting the radiant hooks at their core.

KONTUSION | "Insatiable Lust For Death"

Profound Lore Records
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KONTUSION, the duo of Chris Moore (Repulsion) and Mark Bronzino (Mammoth Grinder) have unleashed the apocalypse with their first full length, Insatiable Lust For Death. Swarming with mutated terror and relentless onslaught, the east coast based duo's brand of death metal is pulverizing. Bronzino's skull crushing riffs ooze with colossal force while Moore's stampeding drums lead to sheer obliteration.

MALFORMED | "Confinement Of Flesh"

Extremely Rotten Productions
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Confinement of Flesh, the full length debut from Helsinki's Malformed, is every bit as disgusting as one might hope it would be. The quartet play death metal with explosive dexterity, a putrid projectile of sickening riffs, vile grooves, and ungodly rhythms, all played with an oozing technicality that still feels violent and raw. Even after two promising demos, this feels like an especially impressive debut album, a ritualistic dismembering of our brain chemistry.

MICHAEL BEACH | "Big Black Plume"

Goner Records
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Michael Beach is leaving conventional structure behind on his latest album, Big Black Plume, a record that gives itself to sonic exploration. As a songwriter based in both Melbourne and California, it's easy to see how each has shaped his sensibilities, from textural folk to combustible blues, he approaches it all with an expansive freedom and an ear for the discordant. Together with members of Tropical Fuck Storm, Dirty Three, and Comets on Fire among others, Beach and co. contort singer/songwriter territory with a warped magnetism.

PHARAOH OVERLORD | "Louhi"

Rocket Recordings
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Louhi, the latest from Finland's Pharaoh Overlord, is a masterclass in the unconventional. The band's brand of metallic krautrock manages to harmoniously weave together opposites. They make hypnotic minimalism sound like mind-bending sensory overload. Their music is undeniably psychedelic and yet the songs are monolithically heavy and dense. With vocals provided once again by Aaron Turner (Sumac), Pharaoh Overlord have added Richard Dawson into the mix on guitar, expanding their cosmic dread, traversing ever deeper into the void.

REBECCA SCHIFFMAN | "Before The Future"

Self Released
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Rebecca Schiffman's fourth album, Before The Future, is beautifully intimate and introspective, but it took a community to get there. Produced by Chris Cohen, Sasami, Tim Carr, and Luke Temple, the record finds Schiffman joined by members of Angel Olsen, Amen Dunes, and Sam Evian's bands (among many others) - the massive LA ensemble of musicians bringing profound texture to the songs. The heart in the album though rests firmly in Schiffman's earnest and unguarded lyrics.

Further Listening:

Bitterviper - Bitterviper
Bleary Eyed - Easy
Bronze Nazareth & Apollo Brown - Funeral For A Dream
Class Act - Malaise
Cory Hanson - I Love People
EELS - Electro-Shock Blues (reissue)
Heatmiser - Mic City Sons – 30th Anniversary Remaster
Homeboy Sandman & Sonnyjim - Soli Deo Gloria
Intro - Introduction Demonstration 1
Otoboke Beaver - Live at Fandango
Otoboke Beaver - Live at Taku Taku
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band - New Threats from the Soul
Sienna Thornton - Birding Out
Star Sign - Star Sign

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin