High Seas
On this album they've layered the sound up with dusty cloaks of reverb and echo and created a hillbilly noir classic. It's the Cramps, Dock Boggs, and Hasil Adkins all fronted by the hypnotizing vocals of Melissa Swingle.
As is their wont, Trailer Bride takes you south, where the woods are full of uneasy stories, where time and history are fluid notions, able to jump out from behind tangled bushes to wreak havoc on your present and where the shadows are full of weary, haunted characters. It's the Cramps, Dock Boggs, and Hasil Adkins all fronted by the hypnotizing vocals of Melissa Swingle. It's a must for anyone who likes the creepy-still moments right before the thunderstorm hits
For their third record, High Seas, they've layered the sound up with dusty cloaks of reverb and echo and created a hillbilly noir classic. Swingle's dusky vocals riding atop layers of moaning, swirling guitars, weird wah-wah pedal banjo and ethereal saw playing, wrap the melancholy, hypnotic longing carried by folks with the whiff of a lost soul.
It's got love songs to clog-dancing folk hero Jesco ("Jesco"), chiggers and all them other bugs that bite ("Itchin For You"), and the hillbilly sea shanty of "High Seas."
Trailer Bride is the spookiest, sexiest, catchiest band ever. Let them cast their spell on you.
Choice Cuts:
Jesco
High Seas
Itchin' For You
Ghost of Mae West
