Troth - Flaws In The Glass LP (Dinged corner)

Gotta say I’m pretty in awe of the first vinyl offering from Troth, the Newcastle based duo of Amelia Besseny and Cooper Bowman. Trying to describe ‘Flaws In The Glass’ I was reminded of those attempts to group some of the post-Noise activities 10 or so years ago. Terms like “song-in-noise” and “hypnogogic-pop”.

I’m not wishing for a similar potentially hyperbolic phrase, but it would be nice to have a shorthand way of describing this collective retreat from outsider beats and D-I-Y sound collage, into lucid compositions. This very contemporary feeling zone between sound piece and song.

Troth hit a space that reminds me of Eno’s ambient series, Księżyc, 4AD, Hype Williams, Nico, Harmonia etc. An equilibrium of accessible/challenging, naïve melodies colliding with considered sounds. On par with Fabulous Diamonds – Plain Songs and YL Hooi’s self titled cassette. Really, really, very beautiful. - Nic