Four years ago Trophy Scars and their fabulous “Darkness, Oh Hell” rocked my world. Literally. That hypnotic mixture of punk fueled post-hardcore, indie-psychedelic rock, jazz, blues and funk was fresh and powerful, totally addictive.
Meanwhile they lost a little bit their punk edge, but not their intensity and “Holy Vacants” it’s an excicting and charming, throughout enjoyable album. Actually they know how to get slowly under your skin and once you get “infected”, you can’t get rid of them anymore. Must mention this, they released an album entitled “Never Born, Never Dead” in 2011, but somehow I missed that.
“Holy Vacants” is Trophy Scars’ fourth album and was two years in the making. It was also intended as their last, not because of any cataclysmic upset in the band, but because the four – Jerry Jones (vocals), John Ferrara (guitarist), Andy Farrel (bass player), Brian Ferrara (drummer) and Gray Reinhard (keys, vocals) – felt that after eight years, it had run its course. Read more Trophy Scars – Holy Vacants (2014)
Îmi dau seama că recomandările mele în mod frecvent n-au nici o relevanţă, lumea preferă brand-urile comode, marfa corporatistă de larg consum, ciunga ulimu’ răcnet asortat iPodului, însă aceşti Trophy Scars m-au lăsat cu gura căscată. Foarte proaspătul „Darkness, Oh Hell” este un amestec ameţitor de sonorităţi de la secvenţe Post Hardcore la Jazz şi Blues Rock, de la Indie realmente Alternative la orchestraţii subtile asortate perfect cu viori sau suflători şi au nervul absolut absent noii generaţii (pseudo) Punk. Oscilează pe o gamă extrem de largă muzical, riff-urile furioase nu exclud armoniile, pianul sau trompeta se îmbină cu cele mai incisive ritmuri şi răbufniri zgomotoase.





