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 “tweet sized,” kept brief in the tradition of our old new release thread. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think you should check out.

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BIRDIE | "Some Dusty" (Reissue)

Slumberland Records
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While Birdie might have been a short lived project, Some Dusty, the band's debut album is justifiably considered a "sunshine pop" classic. Formed by Debsey Wykes (Dolly Mixture) and Paul Kelly (East Village), the record was released in 1999 and has long since been out of print. Newly reissued on Slumberland, the album's soft pop and warm traces of dreamy psych still sounds immaculate, the songs forever radiant.

LACERATION | "I Erode"

20 Buck Spin
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I Erode, the second album from the Bay Area's Laceration, is a great old school death metal record with some spectacularly blistering guitar work and all the ugliness you can ask for. The legacy of early Death albums looms large in Laceration's influences, but they've expanded on that framework with a technical savagery and a maniacal sense for dynamics. The album’s grinding attention to detail rewards close listening.

NIGHTSHIFT | "Homosapien"

Trouble In Mind Records
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Glasgow's Nightshift take a wonderfully idiosyncratic approach to their collective sound, an ever flowing mix of experimental pop, psychedelic post-punk, and amorphous art rock. Three years after the great Zöe LP, the band have slimmed to a quartet on Homosapien, a record that continues to expand their sound, pulling back while pushing forward. It's an illuminating and hypnotic record that gets better with each repeat listen.

RAZ FRESCO & DJ MUGGS | "The Eternal Now"

Soul Assassins Records
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The legendary DJ Muggs has spent much of the past decade entrenched in the underground, producing albums in full for hip-hop's best and brightest (Mach-Hommy, Meyhem Lauren, Roc Marciano). His latest collaborative album is with Raz Fresco, a great Canadian based MC/producer with a deep catalog. Muggs' grimy production suits Fresco well throughout The Eternal Now, his delivery bringing constant heat from the shadows with a focus on the earnest hustle amid well-crafted bars.

ROBBER ROBBER | "Wild Guess"

Self Released
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Robber Robber's debut album, Wild Guess, is an impeccable introduction to the Vermont based band's music, a record built on lively rhythms, discordant fuzz, shoegaze density, and sweetly delivered noise pop hooks. The results are blissful and hazy, dynamic and intricate, swerving in unexpected directions as they contort and expand from throbbing art pop to fractured grooves and intricate caterwauling atonality.

WHITE COLLAR | "White Collar"

Static Shock Records
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Canadian hardcore band White Collar (mems Bootlicker, Headcheese) follow their corrosive demo with their self-titled full length debut, a record seething with agitation, scuzzy filth, and plenty of personality courtesy of vocalist Loosey C. Scathing and splintered, there's a primal touch to White Collar's memorable songs, raging with a wild eyed indignation and an explosive sense of purpose.

FURTHER LISTENING:

Ben Seretan - Allora
Cults - To The Ghosts
MAITA - Want
Matt Robidoux - m e s h s o n g s ep
Pirouette - Pirouette
Rakim - G.O.D.’s Network (Reb7rth)
Wand - Vertigo

FURTHER LISTENING:

by: dan goldin