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Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | Ship | | 6:14 | | 2 | | Sailor | | 4:57 | | 3 | | Evil Hand | | 4:26 | | 4 | | Angels | | 4:37 | | 5 | | Bone | | 5:01 | | 6 | | Since Then | | 5:56 | | 7 | | Bus Stop | | 4:49 |
See more tracks| 8 | | Brother | | 4:34 | | 9 | | Island Song | | 3:58 | | 10 | | Virginia | | 4:27 | | 11 | | Hell Is In Hello | | 6:40 |
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Review
Thalia Zedek serves up guitar-driven experimentalism that, while totally unrestricted by style conventions or commercial concerns, also qualifies as tidy, beautiful rock & roll. On Trust Not, the former frontwoman of seminal indie bands Live Skull and Come moves effortlessly from complicated and capacious folk numbers to emotional balladeering to intense, heavy noise-blues. It's a model of reserved eclecticism in which Zedek's voice -- a hybrid of Marianne Faithfull's throaty gnarl and Kim Gordon's laconic murmur -- is tempered with strings,… Read More trumpet, piano and slide guitar. This instrumentation lends the music a melodramatic flair that is the perfect backdrop for lyrics about sadness over unrequited trust and fickle friendships. The album's best track, "Hell Is in Hello," is emblematic of Zedek's compositional approach: Starting with a quiet violin abstraction, the song slowly builds to a thrashing crescendo that complements the bitterness in lines like "I'm tired of people who are too afraid to say goodbye.
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