Artist : Tripwires
Album : Spacehopper
Label : Frenchkiss
Genre : Indie
Bitrate : 889 kbps avg
Source : CD
Playtime : 00:48:46 (310.2MB)
Rls date : 2013-06-07
Store date : 2013-06-18
Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1
[Track List]
1. Spacehopper 3:31
2. Plasticine 2:57
3. A Feedback Loop Of Laughter 5:13
4. Shimmer 3:56
5. Love Me Sinister 4:55
6. Paint 3:25
7. Under A Gelatine Moon 3:55
8. Catherine, I Feel Sick 3:59
9. Wisdom Teeth 3:54
10. Tin Foil Skin 7:50
11. Slow Mo 5:11
It's no surprise Tripwires spent the last six years
refining their sound in Reading. Being from a truly sleepy
commuter town has let the band develop their debut album,
the aptly titled 'Spacehopper', on their own terms. Or as
the longtime friends (frontman Rhys Edwards, guitarist Joe
Stone, bassist Ben White and drummer Sam Pilsbury) put it,
"A lot of people live here a couple years for work and
then move on. For us, it's been a great place to write
music. Not as a direct result of the environment around
us, but in a way that's encouraged us to provide our very
own soundtrack to growing up."
As for what that entails, the group is quick to name-check
everyone from Neil Young and Yo La Tengo to the Flaming
Lips and Sonic Youth. Not to mention countless strains of
Krautrock and the two albums they can all agree on: Talk
Talk's 'Spirit of Eden' and '666', a demented double LP
from the Vangelis-led Aphrodite's Child collective. While
those artists may read like randomly selected record store
references, Tripwires' debut album doesn't quote anything
directly. Subconsciously maybe, but never as a nod to
anyone but themselves, whether they're sampling
interstellar static ('Slow Mo'), dodging dollops of
feedback ('Plasticine'), or floating through power chords
and thunder-clapped storm clouds ('Spacehopper') all
created at the Rare Book Room studio in New York by
Deerhunter and Animal Collective producer Nicolas Verhnes.
"The main strength of this band is our closeness as
friends," they explain when asked about the individual
strengths of each member. "It's allowed us to stay strong
as a unit, with very little influence from people on the
outside. It's pretty hard for anyone to worm their way in
and gain our trust."
That explains how Tripwires went from covering
Slipknot-hey, we were all young once-during their lunch
break at school to slowly but surely hovering in the
stratosphere between pedal-pushing shoegaze pop and
pressure-cooked psych rock. And if the nearly eight
minutes of experimentation that went into 'Tinfoil Skin'
are any indication, they're not done fine-tuning their
tracks yet either. Not even a little bit.
"We've always joked that we wanted parts of our songs to
sound like a hairdryer to the face," they explain. "Having
said that, we're really interested in exploring how simple
and stripped-back we can make things, using both
approaches to make things sound as diverse as possible
while still sounding like 'us'."