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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DEFTONES | "Private Music"

Reprise Records
Spotify | Apple

The trajectory of the Deftones over the past few decades has been nothing short of amazing. They’ve been unapologetically themselves for thirty years and yet, they’ve never been bigger. In 2025, it would seem that every band wants to sound like Deftones, and well… the Deftones are still the best version of the Deftones, and they are back with their tenth album Private Music. A quintessential new release, the album is heavy, a crushing beast of melodic fury paired with the band’s signature layered assault.

EARL SWEATSHIRT | "Live Laugh Love"

Tan Cressida / Warner Records
Spotify | Apple

Earl Sweatshirt sounds at home on Live Laugh Love, a record that pairs sample rich breezy vibes with some of the MC's absolute best rhymes. There's a loose quality to it all but the record is undeniably focused, with themes related to getting older and being a parent, riding the good times even as the darkness of this world surrounds us all. There's an profound craft to the record and Earl Sweatshirt remains at the very top of his game.

GHOSTFACE KILLAH | "Supreme Clientele 2"

Mass Appeal
Spotify | Apple

More often than not we don’t put much stock in an album’s title, but Supreme Clientele 2 is the “sequel” to what many (myself included) consider to be one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, so the name carries some weight and a degree of expectations. So what (if anything) makes this record, 25 years later, the spiritual successor to Ghostface Killah’s immaculate second album? Hard to say (it’s definitely not the production), but there are more than a few show-stopping moments throughout that reignite the spark on what is easily the best Ghostface album in nearly two decades. Tracks like “Metaphysics” (apparently a lost gem from 2003), the stream-of-conscious narrative of “4th Disciple” and “Windows,” and the one two punch of old school glory on “Break Beats” and “Beat Box,” capture Ghost well in his pocket, a revitalization of his anything goes exuberance.

GREG FREEMAN | "Burnover"

Transgressive Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Greg Freeman's Burnover is a tornado of earnest indie rock and alt-country songwriting at it's finest. The Burlington based songwriter is stompin', twangin', and shreddin' from the proverbial front porch, an indeterminate intimacy of life astray from the hustle. It's an amazing set of warbling songs as rooted in dusty slacker rock as they are heart on his sleeze country. Burnover is a masterclass in brash and brilliant indie rock.

JOBBER | "Jobber To The Stars"

Exploding In Sound Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Jobber To The Stars, the debut full length from Brooklyn's Jobber is bursting with enormous hooks, fuzzy riffs, and triumphant drums all in the name of a sludgy assault on sunshine pop. The quartet have an innate ability to write both gluey melodies and head rattling harmonies, their songs are patiently crafted, sweeping one moment and furiously dive-bombing the next. While the wrestling themes are ever present, Kate Meizner's lyrics go much deeper, exploring the struggle of a society ground to dust under capitalism.

WATER FROM YOUR EYES | "It's A Beautiful Place"

Matador Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

As Water From Your Eyes' profile continues to grow with leaps and bounds so does the scope of their music as highlighted on It's A Beautiful Place, a record where nothing seems off limit. The duo of Nate Amos and Rachel Brown dial into fragmented pop of their own vision, blending together post-punk, distorted disco, dream pop, art rock, and uniquely progressive elements with illuminating results. Pure sonic radiance at its genre blurring best.

Further Listening:

billy woods - Today, I Wrote Nothing (10 Year Anniversary Edition)
Dog Lips - Danger Forward
Duster - Contemporary Movement (Y2K Edition)
Hand Habits - Blue Reminder
Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence
Squanderers - Skantagio
Sunk Heaven - DUD-TECH
Winter - Adult Romantix

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin