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.

Post-Trash’s Giliann Karon chats with Aunt Katrina’s Ryan Walchonski about oppressive DC summers, being a musician for the love of the game, and their band’s excellent new album This Heat is Slowly Killing Me.

Post-Trash’s Jade Marantz chats with Makena lei Carnahan and Jamie Eder of Widemouth about songwriting as a band, the Chicago scene, and their upcoming full length debut No Gasoline.

On Dimple’s newest record, Greg Hartunion and Colby Nathan exchange the atmospheric and space-filled experiments of their 2022 record Soul Chateau in favor of a dense, oozing fog of hushed melodies sung over grooving tempos.

Post-Trash’s Benji Heywood chats with Landowner’s Dan Shaw about his band’s new album, its intensive recording process, and how learning to mistrust our assumptions can be an invaluable hack to withstanding the relentless information assault of our modern age.

Heaven 2 carries a chaotic beauty that fully acknowledges the frailties of human nature. Lala Lala are daringly unafraid to tackle the dangers of the modern world by working through questions that arise through the intense intimacy of their music.

Scout Gillett’s Tough Touch chronicles the experience of a touring musician and the constant sense of change road life entails. Tough Touch is a passionate and fiery snapshot of the places and memories that have been left behind.

My Days of 58 is an intimate and deeply human work, one reflective and varied yet full of personality. It’s not merely a late career highlight for Bill Callahan, but a testament to the importance and brilliance of the songwriter and his oeuvre.

Warren Ellis and Nick Cave’s The Death Of Bunny Munro is perhaps the greatest album either of them have made since Skeleton Tree, and it’s imbued with a similar sense of tragedy. This is a haunting and poignant work, and it reaffirms their mastery of film score ambience. 

Boston post-punk outfit Black Beach are set to release their third long-player tomorrow and Post-Trash has got first dibs. Mail Thief is out via Best Brother Records tomorrow.

New York-based bassist and composer Brandon López gathers the best avant-garde musicians in the city for nada sagrada. Even removed from the spontaneity of witnessing them live, the sheer power of the group can be felt at every turn. 

With a deep understanding that pop nuggets are best delivered in nugget form, Slippers truly excel at miniature masterpieces, songs so catchy and fully realized they rarely need more than two minutes to create their jangly magic. Slippers 08 is overloaded with these kinds of moments.

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.