Trails – ‘Crooked Trees’ [Review]
Good things come to those who wait. At least, they do if you’re a music fan; for musicians, good things only come to those who put in endless hours, days, weeks, months, and years of gruelling and brutal hard work. Bearing this in mind, Crooked Trees‘ emergence from the often precipitous world of Kickstarter crowdfunding is a very good thing indeed.
Trails deserve all the kind words in the world for writing, recording, and releasing this album – but a list of cheery adjectives without some kind of structure would make pretty dull reading. Let’s just say that you have a choice – you can either imagine the following:
Your head banging involuntarily to brutally tight alt-rock tunes like Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads, Forever Black, and Capgras Delusion…
Growing uncomfortably tumescent on the bus as the closing riffs of Echoes In Eternity fill your ears…
Using Newsflash Braniac, Christ Was Jewish to drown out the worrying sounds coming from the next toilet cubicle…
Stomping home blasting Egos At The Door and Captain Hindsight after being stood up…
And serenading a stranger in the street at 3am with a perfectly-nailed acapella medley of Panthro, 1967, and Export Design Import Creation before realising you’re actually singing the new Nicki Minaj song that’s become so stuck in your head that you can’t bear the sight of your own reflection in the mirror anymore…
…or you can just buy Crooked Trees and look forward to making it all a reality. Be honest – those stories would be worth £7, even if the only person you’ll ever recount them to will be your therapist.
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