Trust Punks : Double Bind
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Trust Punks : Double Bind

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Trust Punks hail from New Zealand, though their sound has more in common with the post punk sounds from Britain in the late ’70s than the ‘Dunedin Sound’ that NZ bands are inevitably always compared to. Double Bind is the band’s second album, steeped in jarring, angular tones, dissonant vocal melodies and plenty of grit. If not for the metallic sheen draped over the record’s production than you could compare the band to acts like Fugazi or Slint. But Trust Punk aren’t so derivative, there’s plenty of originality packed into the eleven songs.

The album’s opener, Paradise/Angel Wire starts with an eerie ringing of guitar feedback before launching into a sonic assault against Australia’s treatment of refugees. Things get a little more cheery on Good Luck With That, a pacey pop song that leans heavy on the drums. From here the album becomes much more introspective. The Reservoir is a painful lament with the powerful refrain ‘am I not bold enough’ constantly repeated through the chorus. The demented Leaving Room For The Lord is the heaviest track on the album, a mashing of harrowing guitars leading into a brooding middle section, it’s a real standout track, calling bull shit on the posturing of local punk scenes. Riding It Out has a hypnotic quality with its pulsating rhythm section and grossly distorted guitars. Album closer Bank Of God steers the band into an eight minute math rock epic, the obscure time signatures can be difficult to grasp at first, but repeated listens will reward listeners with what is probably the album’s best song.

 


Double Bind is a finely executed album, it has plenty of ideas, instantly digestible post-punk anthems and most importantly gives the audience something to think about with the highly politicised themes that are explored here.

 

 

BY ALEX PINK