Paper Idol - Playground - Yellow - VINYL LP

The 4th full-length studio album by Robert Alfons aka TR/ST (fka Trust), 'Performance,' sinks even further into the nasty synth-pop psychodrama that the project has pioneered and, finally, perfected across over a decade of evolution. Recorded in Los Angeles, the songs seethe with dread, lust, reckoning, and abandon, backlit by the light pollution of a thousand dead end city streets. Alfons co-produced the collection with versatile composer and producer Nightfeelings, achieving a thick, smoky balance of eerie synths, fog machine low end, and bruised, crooning voice. The title alludes to a friend's offhand remark about Alfons' intrinsically performative nature. The opener, InchSoon,Inch swells to life with hymnal electronics before kicking through the dance floor with a huge new wave hook, spiked with caustic kiss-off lyrics (InchAsleep I still say it aloud / Scared stiff it's all around / We never did call it off, now our organs dried / Scared stiff to stone, you liarInch). The music moves between beauty and bitterness, anthem and anguish, the sound of melancholia gone massive. On track after track, Alfons wields pop dynamics and brooding production wizardry like a weapon, spiraling through a roll call of singles - InchAll At Once,Inch InchThe Shore,Inch InchDark Day,Inch InchBoys of LA.Inch Throughout, there's a sense of emotional turmoil elevated to strange heights, stained by guilt and ghosts and the memory of those wronged and those still unforgiven. As a world unto itself, 'Performance' is persuasive, immersive, and intoxicating, at the threshold of stirring and disturbing. Alfons' voice is the anchor in the storm, singing a collage of impressions and confessions with a smeared, stream of consciousness logic. He's both observer and instigator, performer and playwright, liberated by the stage and the night InchNow we see the rotten mind / It's eye to eye and myste

Availible for the first time on Yellow color vinyl. Los Angeles punk quartet The Paranoyds channel revelry and revulsion into their debut album Carnage Bargain - a raucous blend of garage rock grit, new wave swagger, horror film soundtrack campiness, and a myriad of other influences. The Paranoyds' beginnings can be traced back to a friendship forged between Staz Lindes and Laila Hashemi in their teens. With the additions of Lexi Funston and David Ruiz, the band found the personnel for their sonic balance of jubilant energy and foreboding undercurrents. Carnage Bargain captures this chemistry through guitar-and-keyboard, genre-mashing weirdness on InchLaundry,Inch the fever-dream kitsch of B-52s on InchRatboy,Inch krautrock's motorik groove on InchHungry SamInch, and Blondie on the sweet-and-salty highlight InchCourtney.Inch Title track InchCarnage BargainInch is a perfect example of the band delivering scathing lyrical observations under the guise of a quirky pop hook. The notion of rejecting the status quo and creating your own destiny is evident on the lead single InchGirlfriend Degree,Inch which the band calls an ode to Inchbeing a badass woman who's taking time to make sure she's doing things for herself.Inch The band may be paranoid, but they offer a solution to our modern ills through the act of being an inspiring, independent, and unflappable force. Album Tracks 1. Face First 2. Carnage Bargain 3. Girlfriend Degree 4. Egg Salad 5. Bear 6. Hungry Sam 7. Courtney 8. Laundry 9. Heather Doubtfire 10. Ratboy

For his latest set of recordings, it felt important to Blair that he make Lostboycrow Inchfeel more like a band,Inch something Blair had begun to do on Valleyheart but sought to expand when working with Chu. Chris Chu, who performs with POP ETC (formerly known as The Morning Benders), built his career touring with '00s indie-pop staples like Grizzly Bear, Death Cab For Cutie, Ra Ra Riot, We Are Scientists, and more, so he was the perfect person to produce the record. InchThat's always been what I love,Inch Blair explains of his musical history spent listening to decades-spanning pop-rock bands like the Beach Boys and Fountains Of Wayne. Through working with one of his musical heroes and good friends, Blair crafted the most expansive, ambitious project of his career. Album Tracks 1. Chewed Up 2. Angelina 3. Waving Goodbye 4. Indie Rock 5. Libra Moon 6. Coffee Drugs 7. Quiet Nights 8. Strangers in a Place We Used to Dream 9. Villains 10. Cracks in Our Hands