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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AUTOMATIC | "Is It Now?"

Stones Throw
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Automatic's propulsive strain of post-punk is pure kinetic energy. The Los Angeles based trio simply surge from one enchanting rhythmic groove to the next, their razor sharp melodies cutting between the beats, gleaming like permanent sunspots. Is It Now? often feels like a masterclass in art pop momentum, a fusion of mesmerizing punk immediacy, bursts of noise pop, and neck snapping krautrock rhythms.

CATE LE BON | "Michelangelo Dying"

Mexican Summer Records
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The one and only Cate Le Bon continues her idiosyncratic take on artful synth pop with Michelangelo Dying, a record that explores deep emotion and sustained structural drifts. Highlighted with nuanced inflections and lilting melodies, it's an album that feels fluid even when rooted firmly in heartbreak. The record shines when given undivided attention, warping the detached folk and garage rock of Le Bon's earlier records into layers of synthethic grace and human depth.

DIMPLES | "Obscure Residue"

Feeding Tube / Ba Da Bing Records
Bandcamp

The new Dimples is utterly breathtaking, a magical record that grooves in kaleidoscopic wonder and celestial reflection. The duo of Greg Hartunian and Colby Nathan have really outdone themselves with Obscure Residue, a sweeping and amorphous record of gentle psychedelic pop and dreamy folk. Blending together the natural and the surreal in equal measure, Dimples employ a lush sense of patience as they traverse an arid landscape of cosmic folk bliss.

IRK | "The Seeing House"

Nefarious Industries
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Seven years after Recipes from the Bible, Leeds based noise rock trio Irk return with new their second full length, The Seeing House, a record that plays both to their bludgeoning low end menace and explores new caustic post-punk territory (while retaining all the dread). It's delightfully abrasive, slithering between sludge and punishing no-wave, the end results plastered with a sardonic grin.

JINZO | "Here's The Meat"

Sad Cactus Records / Beeside Cassettes
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Jinzo are not your average art-punk trio. The Queens based band dart around the padded walls of post-punk and math rock with an effervescence, their music both twitchy and tangled, impossibly tight but also charmingly irreverant. Contorted and complex but also wildly melodic, listening to Here's The Meat is a scourge of untethered musical joy, a record bent into deranged knots of alien pop.

PALM SPRINGS | "Turning Yr Back on the Dolphin"

Poison City Records
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Palm Springs, the folk leaning solo project of Tropical Fuck Storm's Erica Dunn, returns with Turning Yr Back on the Dolphin, a tremendous set of lyrical depth and finger picked acoustic tunes. Dunn’s words ruminate with a visionary quality, setting space and time aside to exist in shadows and flickers of gorgeous light. It's a beautiful record with gentle guitars, strings, and piano setting the soft and intimate tone.

Further Listening:

Added Dimensions - Jane from Preoccupied America
Ambulanz - III
EERA - I'll stop when I'm done.
Horsegirl - Julie In Twos
Jay Worthy - Once Upon A Time Vol. 1
JJ And The A's - Rhetoric of Trash
Never Young - Never Young
Permanent Opposite - Permanent Opposite
Property - 12 Reps to Revelations
Shiner - BELIEVEYOUME
Slugfeast - Slugfeast
Tha God Fahim - Dump Gawd: Hyperbolic Time Chamber Rap 16
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle (Mono Remastered)

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin