by Dan Goldin (@paintingwithdan)
Hello dear readers. I’ve fallen so incredibly behind on “Fuzzy Meadows,” our “weekly” recap column (which hasn’t been updated in about two months). The issue with a weekly column that falls this far behind is that it becomes somewhat impossible to catch up and (in some eyes) increasingly irrelevant. The music keeps coming and there’s so much I’d love to share with everyone, but there’s also a part of me that feels as though I’m being buried alive. In order to attempt to dig myself out, here’s a very brief selection of tracks from June that I felt I should share. There’s obviously much more from last month that is worth your attention, but some of it we’ll get to in July (hopefully), and some of the releases were already covered in our “mid-year report”. There’s new music everywhere… find what you love and support those artists in every way you can. Thanks for reading Post-Trash.
ARTIFICIAL GO
“Jane Ate The Apple Seed”
After sharing the A-side of their latest single “Triple Ones” back in May (which we wrote about here), Cincinnati’s Artificial Go released the seven inch in full last month, with the title track joined by the phenomenal “Jane Ate The Apple Seed,” a song that continues to find the quartet in a continuous state of flux. While the song might carry less of an immediate burst than the A-side, the mesmerizing structure creates one of Artifical Go’s most captivating tracks, boogying without a care, hopping along a cool melody and skittering drums that feel outright jazzy at times. With a minimalist bass groove, the quartet lock in and present a song both smoky and bouyant. “Jane Ate The Apple Seed” is languid art-pop that mumbles and rumbles its way into our hearts.
COPROLITH
“Sentenced To The Grave”
There’s an ancient terror emanating from the festering reek of Coprolith’s new album Putrescence. While the band call Toronto their home, you’d be forgiven thinking the death metal quintet hailed from Europe, their brand of knuckle dragging dungeon doom feels chiseled from the deepest of caverns of the old world. With a colossal weight that feels impossibly heavy, Coprolith (the “proper” term for fossilized feces) trudge forward on a slow moving path of destruction and filth, rotting in real time yet retaining a sense of momentum. Even at a creep, the band show a real sense of dexterity, their brand of dread enveloping us all as sinewy riffs and haymaker rhythms grind and dirge in primal fashion. “Sentenced To The Grave” sets the tone with dismal shades of savagery, creeping in with a dour atmosphere before annihilation unravels in a dense and knotted flurry of slow-tempo death metal brutality and entrail-soaked gore.
COR DE LUX
“The Cringe”
A few months back North Carolina’s Cor de Lux announced they had signed to Ipecac Records, joining an esteemed roster of bands like mclusky, The Jesus Lizard, and Melvins among others. The excitement was palpable and things are only getting more exciting as the band have announced their upcoming album, Year Of The Horse, due out September 18th. With the record’s announce comes lead single “The Cringe,” a post-punk ripper that moves between murky atmospheres and duel guitar obliteration. Focused and patient, the song works at its own pace, entering with a tidal wave before changing shapes and textures, letting the deep rhythmic focus take over. Each movement of the song benefits the next, creeping one moment and roaring the next, catching you off guard without losing it’s own steely focus. As is often the case, the band go above and beyond with the music video, a cinematic delight of a cooking game show gone awry.
DOM SENSITIVE
“Faint Like A Star”
There’s a joyous overload of ideas pulsating through Dom Sensitive’s new album Pop Contest, an unpredictable post-punk record that at times feels as much like a surrealist musical collage as it does DIY art punk brilliance. Inherently, it is both of those things. Due out on July 21st via Chrüsimüsi Records (Dylan McCartney, Leopardo, Dumbells), the album finds Dom Trimboli (Wireheads, Dom & The Wizards) completely detached from genre conventions, the sound of the album akin to flipping through the channels, pulling sound bites here and there before glueing it all back together. Taking influences from post-punk, hip-hop, jazz, and slacker pop, the group blend until everything is liquified, Trimboli and co. creating something engagingly mutant but as the album’s title suggests, undoubtably pop (in its own tangled way). “Faint Like A Star” is as great a starting point as any, a song that seems to evolve in real time, moving between laconic drawls, sweetened harmonies, and cartoon character studies that push and pull between synapses in our brain with a strange charm.
GUIDING LIGHT
“Shackled By Lust”
Two years after the release of their great self-titled EP (via Stucco), Austin’s Guiding Light are set to return with their first full length, Fear On My Own Time. Due out on August 21st via Post Present Medium (The Spatulas, Debt Rag, Syko Friend), the band shared lead single and album opener “Shackled By Lust,” a song that shuffles with stampeding snares and a brilliant sense of pressurized energy. Revved up and bursting at the seams, the song is immediately catchy, an arty post-punk song anthem that runs rampant while cementing itself into your memory, stumbling from one insistent hook to the next. Built on the raw jangle of John Morales’ (Wiccans, Touch Girl Apple Blossom) loose riff and the nimble cascade of the drums, vocalist Elise Cook makes the most of the avalanche, her brilliantly repetitive melody landing like superglue on a song that’s itching with excitement.
LOVE CANAL
“Warheads On Foreheads” EP
Love Canal have come crawling out from the gutters of Jacksonville, FL with their impeccably deranged debut, Warheads On Foreheads, a record that truly sounds as explosive in theory as a missile to the face. While a lot of hardcore bands aim for sheer aggression or breakneck speed, this record stands out with a caustic noise rock influence, pulling the piecing distortion and abrasive dissonance from bands like Flipper (where they get their band name) and Fang to create something claustrophobic but ever evolving. It’s manic and ruthless, but it’s also far more textured than your average hardcore record, wrapping itself like a python around its prey only to crush your skull in the process. Love Canal’s debut is raw and agitated punk primitivism thats been triumphantly warped with brain melting feedback. Warheads on Foreheads could almost be psychedelic if it weren’t so caked in filth, and we’re fully on board.
RADIATOR HOSPITAL
“Wall Between Us”
Holy hell, that sense of melody. “Wall Between Us,” the first single from Radiator Hospital’s upcoming album, Distorting Time, hits like a tidal wave of lo-fi bliss. It’s immersive in a way that feels inescapable. Without a change of dynamics or structural movement, Sam Cook-Parrott pulls you in and locks you into place, blissful in the song’s melancholy, the tape hiss charm of the recording, and the warm hug of the song’s tonality. It’s an example of stunning minimalist songwriting, the soft melodic focus carrying a massive weight, the magic of fuzz and syrupy hooks that never feel as though they were intended to hook. It’s really something special, a song that simple in nature and yet so profound as a result. Distorting Time is due out August 14th via Lame-O Records (Lily Seabird, Dazy, Golden Apples) and we can’t wait to hear more.
T.F & MIKE SUMMERS
“Janky Gold”
Having already released on of the year’s best hip-hop albums (Don’t Call Me Lucky together with DJ Muggs), T.F is teaming up with producer MIKE SUMMERS to bring everyone into a hot summer of deep West Coast funkin’ around. Set to release Skanless Summers 3 in the coming months, T.F goes off on the crip-walking bounce of “Janky Gold,” a song that’s thick with atomic dog scented smoke, trunk rattling bass, and T.F’s LA laced bars. Setting up shop in alleys, casual robbery, fashion, and artilery are all par for the course on a song that feels eternally soaked in sunshine and palm trees. While Muggs’ production on T.F’s previous album is untouchable, cemented in a league all its own, SUMMERS comes in hot with an unflinching reverence for the classic LA g-funk sound, a style that lends itself to T.F’s nimble delivery.
TEAM WORK
“Horse Eating An Apple”
Team Work - the duo of Lise Sutter (Maraudeur) and Ronni What (Spllit) - is a new international band formed on mutual admiration and collaborative experimentation. Somebody’s Gotta Do It, their debut album, was recorded between their respective Leipzig and Baton Rouge homes, but the fluidity and attention to shifting details feels lived in, as though their thoughts have merged into one unknowable creature. With the album due out on August 7th via Feel It Records (Mesh, Why Bother, The Cowboys), the record’s lead single “Horse Eating An Apple” leaves a big impression, a song with fractured rhythmic grooves, gorgeous vocal harmonies that feel closely glued to the arrangement, and a disfigured sense of melody that contorts and contracts with a sense of mechanical beauty. There’s a glowing sting that sits just beneath the surface, bubbling up and taking shape as the duo move been one mesmerizing idea to the next. With slight nuances creeping and crawling throughout the mix, there’s something new to marvel at with each repeat listen.
extended listening:
8BALL & MJG “Tiny Desk Concert”
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS “Time”
ALIEN NOSEJOB “City Life”
ANKHLEJOHN “Payback”
@ “Autosmile”
BILLY GARDNER & FRIENDS “Flare of Flame” (feat. Paris Rebel Richens)
BOLDY JAMES & ACSVG “Tax Checks”
BUCKET “Good Intentions”
CHUCK STRANGERS “G Pack”
THE CIRCULATORS “Pointless Games” EP
C.O.F.F.I.N “Sleep In It”
CONSENSUS MADNESS “Superfund”
CZARFACE & FRANKIE PULITZER “Brothers Grimm”
DARI BAY “On Your Side”
DEAD VOID “Cranial Devastation” LP
DIÄT “Nausea (Live)”
DINOSAUR JR “Several Got Away”
THE FALL “30 Degrees”
FRANCES CHANG “Is Affect Real?”
GIMIC “New Traditions” LP
GLASS DELUSION “Glass Delusion” EP
GRASS JAW “Joe vs the Volcano” + “Purgatory Chasm”
HEADCHEESE “Dump Run”
HOLY MOTORS “Tough Crush”
HOLY WAVE “Dewey’s Dirge”
HORSE LORDS “Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive!”
HOT LOAD “Widowmaker”
THE INTELLIGENCE “Getting Gravitropic”
JALEN NGONDA “Burning Temptation”
JOYERIA “Duller Grey”
JULIA JACKLIN “Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)”
L’RAIN “Soulless Cycle”
LACKEY “Conshy Girls”
LAURA MARLING “Laura Sings Raffi” LP
LEAH SENIOR “Two Weeks”
LECHE “Domestic Economic Terrorism” EP
LEFT TO DIE “Witch of Hell” (Death cover)
LILY SEABIRD “Election Day”
LIQUID CROSS “Hateful EP”
MEMORIALS “Just A Moon” (Bill Fay cover)
MIRAGE “Mirage” LP
MUTE FORM “Present Lingers”
NEPTUNE’S CORE “Easel”
NINA WINDER-LIND “Girls”
THE ODYSSEY CULT “The Yeti’s Eyes”
ONEIDA “I Can’t Stand You”
OSEES “Off Course” LP
PARTS & LABOR “Arterial Material”
PJ HARVEY “Voyager”
PORCHES “Angel”
QIRL “Sardine10”
RATBOYS “Live on KEXP”
RAZ FRESCO “Specialize / The Dumb”
ROME STREETZ “High Speed”
SHANNON LAY “Horizons”
SMIRK “Going Off To Die”
SOCIETY “Casualties of War”
SPACEMOTH “Telepathic Butterflies”
STAR SIGN “Two Song Promo”
SWEEPING PROMISES “Cocoon”
THANKS FOR COMING “1.31”
THIS IS LORELEI “Billy Came Back”
TWERP “Uptight”
ULRIKA SPACEK “Audiotree Live”
ULTRA LIGHTS “Good Enough”
UPPER WILDS “Mercury”
USA NAILS & AAA GRIPPER “Mai 2026 Live Split”
WEEN “Boston Chicken”
ZOH AMBA “Dead End Street”
ZORN “Black Dog March”