Toronto post-punks Hot Garbage return with ‘Wewu,’ premiering today ahead of its January 20th release via Mothland.

Marking their first studio output since the 2024 sophomore LP ‘Precious Dream,’ ‘Wewu’ sees the quartet venturing deeper into the gnarly textures of noise rock while retaining a distinct sheen. The band has once again enlisted producer Graham Walsh (Holy F*ck, METZ) and mastering engineer James Plotkin (Khanate), a team that ensures the track’s density never collapses into mud. Instead, the production offers a separation of instruments: overdriven guitars clash against “foreign” synthesizer patches, occupying distinct spaces in the stereo field, while the rhythm section executes a frenetic, math-rock-adjacent oscillation between binary and tertiary beatmapping.

There is an eerie sense of entrapment in the cryptic lyrics, yet the arrangement…calling to mind the motorik drive of Krautrock filtered through the jagged experimentalism of Broadcast…propels the listener toward a desperate escape.

‘Wewu’ is accompanied by a self-directed video by the band.