trailer trash tracies

TRAILER TRASH TRACYS

Ester

Domino/EMI

With a band name like Trailer Trash Tracys you would likely be expecting a band that sounds like a hard rocking posse of bourbon swilling badass chicks, or a toothless brand of ladies with a penchant for the front step and a collection of out of tune banjos, but neither comes anywhere near touching on the sound from this London four piece.
With a name so abysmal, the casual listener would be excused for having low expectations when placing Ester in the CD player. It comes as quite the shock then, when what comes out of the speakers is an ambitious melding of analogue and digital. Swirling instruments and chaotic percussion kick things off with Rolling – Kiss The Universe, but this only hints at what is to come.
Vocalist Susanne Aztoria sounds like she has been dragged straight out of a girl group to front the reverb heavy, dreamy shoegaze of You Wish You Were Red while the rest of the band hint at an admiration for Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Candy Girl covers similar territory while taking the band for a short journey through Twin Peaks.
Trailer Trash Tracys do run the risk of being dumped in with the many female-fronted bands hiding behind a wall of reverb that have been well document in the world of blogs, but Ester offers an outfit that surely possess many more strings to their bow.

_CHRIS HAVERCROFT

xpressradio by X-Press Magazine

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