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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7XVETHEGENIUS | "Self 7xve 3"

Broadband Sound
Spotify | Apple

Following a stint on Drumwork Music Group, 7xvethegenius returns to her independent roots with Self 7xve 3, a record that seems to shed new skin, excepting growth and the positivity that surrounds love. With an added emphasis on R&B’s influence, 7xve's bars remain intricate and her flow ever elastic, but there's an ease to it all this time around. Void of pretense, 7xvethegenius is presenting herself in a softer light.

BABY TYLER | "Sucker With A Dream"

NightBell Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Baby Tyler is a one man garage punk wrecking ball. The Madison, Wisconsin based project thrives on a mix of hardcore, psych boogie, noise rock, and a kitchen sink of discordant influences to create music that’s as aggressive as it is gleefully energetic. There’s a sordid sensibility to it all, but a palpable sense of fun at its core. Recorded together with engineer Graham Hunt, Sucker With A Dream is the project’s sixth album in six years, a set of unapologetic rippers with swarming hooks and reckless charm.

CITRIC DUMMIES | "Split With Turnstile"

Feel It Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Citric Dummies’ new album, Split With Turnstile, is thankfully not a split with the Baltimore band, it's something much better, a great punk record from a band that refuses to take any of this seriously (and yet they absolutely rip). The Dummies’ signature sense of humor on display once again, a modern piss take of the highest variety. The Minneapolis based trio love to toe the line between brilliance and sheer stupidity, thematically wobbling between the two with a surge of chaotic abandon.

CUSP | "What I Want Doesn't Want Me Back"

Exploding In Sound Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Hooks abound in every twist and turn of Cusp's second full length, What I Want Doesn't Want Me Back, a coming of age record that simply shines with layered textures and relatable sentiment. There's a sweetness, a sincerity, and a sarcastic bite to Jen Bender's songs, pulling between punch lines and inescapable anxiety, a navigation of life that contorts and expands with the band's immaculate subversion of 90's alternative rock. Bouncing between muscular distortion and touches of breezy power-pop, Cusp swirl from enormous refrains and sludgy bliss to twangy reflections and tangled fills, each song a compliment to the next.

IMPLODERS | "Targeted For Termination"

Static Shock / Neon Taste Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Imploders sound as agitated and as unhinged as these times demand on their second album, Targeted For Termination. The Toronto based hardcore band play with a raw and splattered intensity, as the tempos seem to get ever faster and the disdain all the more palpable. For all its well placed agression though, you get the sense that Imploders are having fun, tearing through riffs with a caustic sense of basement punk exuberance.

JEFF TOBIAS | "One Hundredfold Now in This Age"

Repeating Cloud
Bandcamp | Apple

Jeff Tobias (Sunwatchers, Modern Nature, Brigid Dawson) is back with his second solo album, One Hundredfold Now in This Age, a record as complex as it is compelling. An experimental work with a depth no mere blurb can capture, Tobias weaves together deeply political and defintive statements cascading over a blend of synth pop, jazz, prog, and warped psych rock.

SAM WOODRING | "Mechanical Bull"

Pretzle Records
Bandcamp

Sam Woodring (Mister Goblin, Two Inch Astronaut) returns with his first acoustic solo record, an intimate set of songs that really shine in their stripped back approach. With vocals and guitar (and some gorgeous vocal harmonies), these songs sound perfectly fleshed out, loaded with Woodring's specific lyrical charms (singing about Nick Cannon's Wild'n Out and Faces of Death). It's an engaging set of music from a masterful songwriter.

SPEED WEEK | "Speed Weak"

Endless Recordings / Erste Theke Tonträger
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Speed Week (a band that features members of Split System among others) share their second record, Weak Speed, a rattling garage punk record that could only come from Melbourne. The band's high-speed punk is loaded with a sardonic sense of humor and sociopolitical lyrics that lament corruption, greed, and modern economic nightmares. It's brash yet bright, beer soaked rippers with an unflinching intelligence. A better world is out there.

THEY ARE GUTTING A BODY OF WATER | "LOTTO"

Julia’s War / Smoking Room / ATO Records
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple

Perhaps you've heard about the shoegaze revival? They Are Gutting A Body of Water (aka TAGABOW) remain central to the genre's new generation, and they've never sounded better than they do on LOTTO. Seemingly refining their sound while growing increasingly heavy, it's a well focused record that continues to expand the band's shifting sonic pallet while focusing on the depth of their songwriting.

Further Listening:

Bar Italia - Some Like It Hot
Bloodsports - Anything Can Be A Hammer
Boris - dronevil - example - (reissue)
Boris - Pink (20th Anniversary Reissue)
Destiny Bond - The Love
Fake Last Name - 2025 Practice Tape
Good Flying Birds - Talulah's Tape (reissue)
Living Hour - Internal Drone Infinity
Pixies - Demos
Rumah Sakit - Rumah Sakit 25 (reissue)
Ru$h & Tha God Fahim - Luxury Art 3
Soga - Corrosión
Spiral Wave Nomads - The Weightless Sea
Systems Officer - My Traps Your Mazes
Tha God Fahim & Drega33 - Lethal Weapon 4

Further Listening:

by: dan goldin