Troth - Idle Easel EP 12"DR 56 A new EP from Troth, following up their brilliant third album Forget The Curse released earlier this year. An EP of sorts, as these six wonderful tracks clocks in at over 31 minutes! A double one disc EP? No matter what, Idle Easel sees the band in a transitional period, as the duo of Amelia Besseny and Cooper Bowman left Newcastle for Hobart, Tasmania during the recording sessions. The record has this heavy feeling of leaving something behind

"In November 1976

This record shouldn’t

[starry-eyed piano melodies]

The spirit of Albers guides the piece

monochromatic take on pop music

the seemingly untutored ooze of 'Please Don't Come Back From the Moon' and 'Girl With Frog' had its genesis in something far more Apollonian than is usually understood

the band have released two LPs and a handful of cassettes

highly intelligent & musically conversant people I’d ever met

a casual collaboration between a few friends that was initially documented by two self-titled cassette-only releases released in 2014 and 2015 respectively

Wir gingen durch leere Stunden by Schatterau

the ancient brown pigment once made from ground mummies and thought to hold some remnant of life within it

Or just listen to “Nine