New Noise // Trophy Wife
Without a doubt; the most exciting new band I’ve heard all year. Now I don’t want to plunge into hyperbole, although I might have done already, but equally I’m just worried that I won’t be able to do this song justice. Lucky, then, that with the internet and various crafty little plugins what I say is actually quite irrelevant because you can listen to Trophy Wife’s “Microlite” yourself and then try and find words to describe its soaring Foals-ian disco pummelling.
Comparisons to Foals are, I hope I have proved, inevitable, yet they go beyond a shared heritage in Oxford and actually practicing in the rooms next-door to Foals’ house (apparently Yannis used to trot round and ask, very politely we imagine, if Trophy Wife could turn down that fucking racquet). Luckily, the noises that Trophy Wife were making were not a racquet, illustrated by the 3 songs present on their myspace, which we were directed towards by this writing here.
Well, this is the end of the post. I’m conscious that I started with a promise to avoid hyperbole, yet the amateur music journalist in me is screaming out to just call them “the best new band in Britain” or state that they “will be on the cover of NME within months” and be done with it, but we’re just too early on to be making assertions like that. Yet this isn’t what matters; if the tracks we’ve heard prove anything, it’s simply that Trophy Wife have the talent and potential to go that far if circumstances combine to carry them. Grounded and boring, but true. Sorry.
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June 22nd, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Don’t you just love it when you hear a new band and feel like punching the air with a shout of “Yes!”. Then you hit the ground again and think “Hmmm…am I getting a little too over excited.” Don’t worry only (potentially) the whole worlds watching you.
It’s a fine line to call, and I think you are right taking a measured approach – it’s too early to start shouting “Next big thing!” Yet sometimes doesn’t it feel good to just let the passion jump out and go for it ? Otherwise the world would be a very grey place.
I like this song and I like the other songs on the bands Myspace, not enough to make me wet myself or spontaneously explode in an orgasmic rush, but yes they do sound good.
I’d be interested to see them live to get a fuller picture.
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Absolutely – yet, if anything, being passionate and making grand statements is only likely to lead to an anticlimax – as I guess it has with you. Thinking about it, the post that I read about the band in on Illegal Tender didn’t make any grand statements… just made them sound vaguely interesting, all of the pleasure was in listening to them and thinking…. shit, this isn’t just quite good, this is brilliant. I guess there’s a measure of self-discovery in there, which is a really selfish way of looking at things. Guess it’s just the way we’re built!
So in future I’m just going to post lone mp3s and save some time
June 25th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
It’d be a little dull if we never got excited, wouldn’t it? Thats what listening to new music is all about for me. TW sound F’in great, and its a little different to stuff thats out at the moment which is of course a good thing.
June 25th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Of course of course, only danger is getting over-excited and making ridiculous statements… Sure, it’s all about finding that excitement, but conveying it in a more measured way, in my opinion! By the way, I read your interview of Trophy Wife before this post and it was really interesting, thanks!
June 25th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
I know its a little early to be getting carried away, of course. 3 tracks is hardly a career! Microlite (in particular) just sounds amazing. One of them tracks that pop up and you literally cant stop playing it.
Thanks for the words by the way, its all love.
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