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Trailer Trash Tracys, Ester
Intro opener, Rolling - Kiss the Universe starts Ester with Brian Eno electro funk noise. It leads brilliantly into track of the album, You Wish You Were Red, epitomising everything that's good about Trailer Trash Tracys. Lush vocals overlays a stripped back, heavy bass with catchy drum machine backing and shimmering guitar riffs. The video is cool as f*$# too.
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Dies in 55 payes homage to Nico and The Velvet Underground, but with one of the most modern interpretations of garage band class.
Engelhartdt's Arizona has a brilliant hyper speed arpeggio style of guitar playing (I think) that we first saw Anna Calvi do on her cover of Leonard Coen's Joan of Arc. As with all tracks on Ester, it's as cool as sea ice with hooked drum machine beats, powered up bass notes and stunning vocals.
A slower arpeggio dominates Los Angered giving it a submerged feel, with beautiful vocals and a spinning end. While Starlatine's got a lot to thank Brian Eno for, mixing it with a French singing style that's hard to compare.
Reiterating the love of The Velvet Underground, the seventh track on Ester is Candy Girl. It's slow, bluesy and melancholic dipping down the lowest from the freak-out start. Strangling Good Guys is a bit more upbeat, but there's only so much sunshine you can put on a track with that title. The elongating, pitch bending vocals are the key to the track's strength, with them changing in the latter third to switch things up.
Black Circle is dark, with twang back funk bass. It's not as rounded as earlier tracks though. However, Turkish Heights returns to the foundations of Ester, bringing it all back with a forlorn, sinking end.
Ester is a masterpiece of deep treasure and modern beats. If this is what 2012 is going to sound like then it's going to be an amazing year.
Trailer Trash Tracys, Ester album review: 4.5/5