Sydney Salk’s “Various Artists” returns to round up some of winter 2026’s best compilations and the causes they support, with choice picks from Brutus VIII, Little Wings, Bellcave, Ben Monder and David Tronzo, and HDPE.

Echoing between the past and present, Evergreen In Your Mind is a tender yet rarely fragile album. Juni Habel’s third record is a sophisticated piece of modern folk, equally rooted in the intimate and the psychedelic.

Robber Robber packs a lot into condensed packages. The band’s densely layered noise rock is both relentlessly harsh and impossibly catchy, and on their second album, they push the outer limits of density.

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

Recorded using a binaural head, Voka Gentle’s Domestic Bliss fuses musicality and sound design. With their latest, the London trio challenge what sound can be, creating a sonic charcuterie replete with sound art, field recording, and industrial, beat-driven pop. 

Robert Lester Folsom’s partnership with Mexican Summer and Anthology Recordings has gifted listeners his personal archive of home-recorded tapes, conceived during his teenagedom in Adel, Georgia as he worked as a house painter during summer break.

Tasked with reinterpreting her catalog across its disparate sounds over years on the road, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me is the first Mitski album to feel like a culmination of what came before instead of a complete reinvention.

After a very long nine years away, Tall Friend has returned. The trio are set to release their second full length, Fossil, on May 15th via Window Sill Records, an undeniably special album that bridges together the past and present for songwriter River Pfaff.

With Crystal Rabbit Moon, Whitmer and gobbinjr encourage listeners to let go of themselves and join their bewildering psych dreamscape full of humor, heart, and unease. It’s easy to lose yourself in gobbinjr’s world and drift away into an untethered and colorful place of beauty.

Post-Trash’s Benji Heywood chats with London-based dream pop trio deary about their formation, authenticity versus nostalgia, and how the tremendous power of the natural world can be at once mesmerizing and savage. 

Ak’chamel’s capture the spirit of obscene consumption on Spiritually Unmployed, as the Houston duo deliver a sacrificial offering that brings peace to no one.

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

Landowner are pros at dressing up relevant themes like over-consumption with fresh paint. Their latest LP Assumption enthusiastically tackles the ideas of truth and the proliferation of information.

Vernon Manner, Webb Chapel’s second full-band LP, sounds like a fresh start. Webb Chapel has thrived in prolific mode for half a decade now, and the addition of bandmates only amplifies Claxton’s adherence to the immediate and seemingly impulsive.

A dense specter of ghostly melancholia permeates the vastly underrated debut album 1 from San Diego’s Black Heart Procession. This album is haunted, world-weary, and creepy; it ranks just a notch below the band’s justly revered follow up 2.

Columbus three-piece Golomb have a new EP out today, and it’s as electric as their high power live performances. Ahead of their upcoming European tour, Post-Trash chatted with Golomb about being a power trio, the importance of The Velvet Underground, and their excellent new EP The Beat Goes On and On and On.

Stuck continue to build a catalog by adding new stylistic layers, showing an impressive amount of growth and power as the band continues to challenge themselves with each release. Optimizer is a record that roars with immense power, and is a leap forward for a figurehead of the indie-noise scene.

Dorji’s new album is the guitarist’s most beguiling and accessible record thus far. without sacrificing his best tendencies. On low clouds hang, this land is on fire, slow-paced melancholia creates an unplanned (but ever intentional) journey, undulating between moments of despair and reassurance, isolation and collective solidarity.

Remember the muscular diagram in science class? That’s the kind of pop music HYPER GIRL make; flayed, visceral, and entirely unmasked. With Our Hyper, visual artist Koharu Ishida and noise artist Kurumi Kadoya have made their most authentic record yet.

Station Model Violence prove you can create something out of seemingly wandering quarks of musical history while never leaving the core of your musical ethos. Their self-titled will not only go down as one of the best punk records of the year, but probably of the decade. 

NYC / Cincinatti punks Choncy bounce ideas off one another from the east coast to the Midwest, honing in on their “kitchen sink” sound from hundreds of miles away. Today, Post-Trash is thrilled to premiere the video for “Bypass,” Choncy’s second single from their upcoming Trademark.

Rohan Press’ personal, short-form feature on patience, heft, and The Clearwater Swimmers’ latest EP Seasons.

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

Oh Dang’s Big Dogs finds the New Orleans project balancing bright, good-time melodies while acknowledging hardship in a heartfelt manner without getting too bogged down in melancholia. 

Wendy Eisenberg’s latest is informed by formal jazz training and nearly a decade’s worth of improvisational playing. Their self-titled finds the master guitarist exploring love, the self, and life, showing that there’s no one way to do it, so long as you try.

Robber Robber’s sonic chaos by way of four-piece rock band combines the best of experimental and pop. Last November, Post-Trash chatted with Nina Cates and Zack James about the Burlington scene, the best and worst of Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the creative groove they’ve settled into with their Fire Talk debut.

Nina Nastasia’s Seaside Recordings is a haunting and sepulchral collection, full of poignancy and anguish. The New York artist portrays someone afflicted by an unfathomable loss, yet her approach is one of stoic composure.

EXEK’s seventh album and first for DFA, Prove the Mountains Move is a masterpiece of post-punk clarity. It’s the feeling of knowing your way around in the dark, of taking in the world with new eyes, of the nostalgia of a moment before it’s ended.

Despite the heavy tone EXPO unravels, the growth that Ulrika Spacek showcased on their latest record is exponential, only blossoming their potential as one of the most intriguing art rock bands that continuously digs into their sound and concept, album after album.