The Trudy - Outside Time (Miron Music)

I already waxed lyrical about the clever path that The Trudy walks between traditional folk sounds and more of-the-moment sonic delights when I wrote about “Every Story Ever Told,” but it is safe to say it is a similarly sure-footed, delicious dance that defines this latest EP too.

Threaded through with several instrumentals and interludes, such as a blistering and blissed out balancing act that is “Giants Theme” and the short opening drift of “Dawn,” there are only four, let’s say proper, songs here. Still, it seems that The Trudy can do more in four songs than many other bands can in whole albums, whole careers even.

“Where The Roses Grow” rises out of traditional folk territory, slowly builds into something more rock-infused, and, by the time it is heading for the finishing line, its pulsing back beats and scintillating guitar, not to mention the distant strains of the flute put you in mind of a less excessive take on seventies Jethro Tull. Never a bad thing.

“Dear Sancho” is built on squalling guitars but is tempered by dark and delicious interludes and also, in no small amount, by Melissa Jo Heathcote’s ethereal vocals, at times reminiscent of Natasha Khan’s Bat For Lashes. Again, it is a great reference point, if you ask me. And if you have read this far, you kinda did!

I’ll skirt over “Every Story Ever Told”. You can find my review of that elsewhere, but it was love at first listen for me. Make of that statement what you will.

Reminding us that, despite my continued use of the f-word, The Trudy can’t be boxed into just one genre, “Pop Pop” wouldn’t have seemed out of place on a Darling Buds’ album, a short, sharp, and shockingly brilliant indie groover, and infectious blend crafted somewhere between pop and a hard place.

This is truly a band for the post-genre world – folk, pop, indie, rock, psychedelia, ambient, and much more all ebbing and flowing under their watchful eye, and the results are fantastic.

(I guess it is a bit too early to start talking about albums of the year. However…)

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