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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CASTRATOR | "Coronation of the Grotesque"

Dark Descent Records
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Three years have passed since Castrator released their debut album but the band have returned and they've never sounded better. Coronation of the Grotesque is a bludgeoning and vicious death metal beast that doesn't look to recreate the wheel but does a damn fine job of creating their own little stake of eternal annihilation. Shredding with a ruthless fury (often righteously aimed at the horrors that men do), Castrator’s blood-soaked riffs bring them to the next level of rabid carnage.

DRAGNET | "Dragnet Reigns!"

Spoilsport Records
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Dragnet, the Melbourne based post-punk sextet, are back with their third album Dragnet Reigns!, a record that pairs together tangled progressions, sardonic exuberance, and a hammering fury. Wound up and willingly explosive, Dragnet Reigns! resides in a place of jittery punk urgency, rattled repetition, and mounting tension that eventually splinters before coming violently unglued (in the most enjoyable of ways).

PILE | "Sunshine and Balance Beams"

Sooper Records
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Pile continue to age like a fine wine, the band forever progressing their sound and reshaping the formula. Their ninth album, Sunshine and Balance Beams, is brilliantly unpredictable, shifting in real time like some sort of beautifully crafted body horror. Equal parts heavy and serene, often in quick succession, it's an anxious record for our anxious times, a state of momentary catharsis if only we could stop hyperventilating. While structurally chaotic, the songwriting is gorgeous, pushing against the path of most resistance to create something as challenging as it is undeniably wonderful.

PRESERVATION & GABE 'NANDEZ | "Sortilège"

Backwoodz Studioz
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Sortilège is the collaborative debut between Preservation and Gabe 'Nandez, pairing together one of hip-hop's true visionary sonic architects with an underground MC whose delivery is ready for the limelight. Having previously collaborated on billy woods' Aethiopes, the pair started building their own conceptual rap odyssey, crackling with hard beats, dusty instrumentation, and 'Nandez's deep unflinching delivery. Preservation is on another wave length, one of this generation's most musical producers and 'Nandez never lets that fact go to waste. This one is a true gem.

SOFT SURFACE | "Blue Dream"

Self Released
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Soft Surface, the latest project from fuzz pop extraordinaire Cameron Wisch (Cende, Dust Star, Porches), is a punchy dose of power pop brilliance. Recorded together with Seth Engel (Options), Wisch's tightly wound songs are sweet but muscular, with gentle hooks and hefty rhythms. There's a sunsoaked quality to the songwriting, a set of FM gold songs perfect for the summer heat.

Further Listening:

Cave In - Creative Eclipses (2025 Remaster)
Evidence - Unlearning Vol. 2
Fuck Money - Fuck Money
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009)
Unleashed - Fire Upon Your Lands

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin