Darkwave goddess Alicja Trout returns with her solo post-Lost Sounds debut
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May 24. 2005
Darkwave goddess Alicja Trout returns with her solo post-Lost Sounds debut
Alicja Trout is the busiest--and well on her way to being the best known--woman in the underground. Her highest profile gig was fronting (with Jay Reatard) the massively influential punk-meets-darkwave Lost Sounds. She's also applied her talents to Nervous Pattern, Mouserocket, River City Tanlines, the Fitts and the Clears, among others.
On the other side of the studio glass, she’s an in-demand punk producer, recording bands like Reigning Sound, the Ponys, and Catholic Boys at her Tronic Graveyard Studio in Memphis, TN. Add to that running her own label/mail order business, Contaminated Records, and you have one productive and prolific punk rocker!
Where she found time to record a masterpiece like "Tronic Blanc," then, is a mystery to us.
Black Sunday's debut album was recorded mainly by Alijca at Tronic Graveyard, Black Sunday melds the paranoid, futuristic keyboard buzz of Lost Sounds with the haunting pop sensibilities of Mouserocket. Intense art-rock workouts meet sprawling, lush soundscapes. Aggressive noise rock twitches right beside undeniable pop hooks. Comparisons to other bands (even her other projects) are utterly useless, though. In the end, this sounds like no one but Alicja.
Lost Sounds recently stunned the underground by abruptly splitting at the height of their popularity, following sold-out US and European tours. We believe Lost Sounds will go down in the punk history books as one of the most important bands of the early 21st century. In the meantime, news of their dissolution has left a lot of folks scratching their heads and wondering what's next? Well, here it is: Black Sunday’s "Tronic Blanc."
The album: "Tronic Blanc" by Black Sunday (Dirtnap Records)
Release date: 6/28/05
File under: punk/indie (Lost Sounds)
For review copies, interviews or tour dates, contact:
Ken Cheppaikode at Dirtnap, mail@dirtnaprecs.com , phone (503) 736-0909
May 24. 2005
Darkwave goddess Alicja Trout returns with her solo post-Lost Sounds debut
Alicja Trout is the busiest--and well on her way to being the best known--woman in the underground. Her highest profile gig was fronting (with Jay Reatard) the massively influential punk-meets-darkwave Lost Sounds. She's also applied her talents to Nervous Pattern, Mouserocket, River City Tanlines, the Fitts and the Clears, among others.
On the other side of the studio glass, she’s an in-demand punk producer, recording bands like Reigning Sound, the Ponys, and Catholic Boys at her Tronic Graveyard Studio in Memphis, TN. Add to that running her own label/mail order business, Contaminated Records, and you have one productive and prolific punk rocker!
Where she found time to record a masterpiece like "Tronic Blanc," then, is a mystery to us.
Black Sunday's debut album was recorded mainly by Alijca at Tronic Graveyard, Black Sunday melds the paranoid, futuristic keyboard buzz of Lost Sounds with the haunting pop sensibilities of Mouserocket. Intense art-rock workouts meet sprawling, lush soundscapes. Aggressive noise rock twitches right beside undeniable pop hooks. Comparisons to other bands (even her other projects) are utterly useless, though. In the end, this sounds like no one but Alicja.
Lost Sounds recently stunned the underground by abruptly splitting at the height of their popularity, following sold-out US and European tours. We believe Lost Sounds will go down in the punk history books as one of the most important bands of the early 21st century. In the meantime, news of their dissolution has left a lot of folks scratching their heads and wondering what's next? Well, here it is: Black Sunday’s "Tronic Blanc."
The album: "Tronic Blanc" by Black Sunday (Dirtnap Records)
Release date: 6/28/05
File under: punk/indie (Lost Sounds)
For review copies, interviews or tour dates, contact:
Ken Cheppaikode at Dirtnap, mail@dirtnaprecs.com , phone (503) 736-0909
posted by Kim @ 1:45 PM
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