This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
CMU Approved
Approved: Traams
By Aly Barchi | Published on Thursday 1 March 2012
One of the acts stashed away on the always rewarding Italian Beach Babes roster – others being Novella and the CMU approved Keel Her – Chichester three-piece Traams released their eponymous four-track EP in January. It was recorded with go-to lo-fi engineer Rory Attwell (aka Warm Brains, aka Test Icicles’ Raary Decihells), and thus has a certain taut but tarnished sonic quality in common with the many, many bands (not least Mazes, Male Bonding and Weird Dreams) in Attwell’s collaborative harem.
Characterised by the band as a krautpop/grunge/shoegaze amalgam, Traams’ typical sound equates to a meditation on serrated riffs, hard-pressed rhythms and the odd hoarse choral bridge. It’s at its smartest when it pursues a surer structure as in EP feature ‘Grin’, and at its most dishevelled when it plugs away at a single cyclic prog pattern, as in the eyes-down glower of final track ‘Klaus’.
As Traams prepare to share a line-up tonight with Brown Rogues and Female Band, that taking place at Dalston’s Shacklewell Arms, the entire EP is free to sample here:
[wp_bandcamp_player type=”album” id=”4262782876 ” size=”venti” bg_color=”#FFFFFF” link_color=”#4285BB”]
