Lorna Irvine reviews an album that is 'immediate, energetic and fun'.
The London trio's second album, the follow-up to their eponymous debut, has an itchy restlessness that feels like a childhood summer: when days went on forever, you zipped around on too many sweets and Coca-Cola and skinned your knees but climbed trees undeterred. It is that immediate, energetic and fun.
Happily, it's also not as twee as that might suggest, coming as it does from three young women who are already seasoned musicians. At times it's almost like a manifesto to just grabbing life.
'What's the point of talking, if nobody's listening?' they enquire on 'Shyness'.
Propelled by the triple threat of Rachel Horwood's pile driving drums, Ros Murray's bendy basslines and Rachel Aggs' scratchy guitar lines, the songs wriggle and build before collapsing and starting all over again.
Harmonies by Aggs and Murray are gorgeous, as evinced by 'Boredom', and 'Medicine' and 'Shyness' are bolstered by a No-Wave saxophone sound by Electralane's Verity Susman, which only adds to their uniqueness.
They have spoken of their love of post-punk band The Raincoats, and there is an undeniable influence there, as well as the Ska and avant-garde buoyancy of The Slits, and more recently, Micachu and The Shapes, but they are still very much their own special creation: a boot in the groin to manufactured pop and landfill indie alike.
Confidence is out now on Upset The Rhythm.
Trash Kit - Medicine (Official video): http://youtu.be/YmPoCeEoq9E
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