The Trudy – Outside Time – Southern English pop band The Trudy have a new mini album, is it a mini concept album? They say it is all designed to be listen to at once, it certainly feel like one piece in seven parts and twenty-one minutes bookended by a definite start and an end and pop pop goes your heart. They might not be the most prolific of bands but when The Trudy do do something it always feels like something special, something crafted, something just a little more considered and something always worth the wait. We’ve been covering The Trudy since the last century, they’re like this secret little cult band, a treasure of an English pop band with a back catalogue well worth exploring if you don’t already know.
Album opener Dawn is only 36 seconds long, it may be on purpose, it may just be accidental, but does it reference The Sound and their classic Winning? The Trudy and The Sound do have connections. Actually, are The Trudy sounding just a little less English 80’s psychedelic indie pop and slightly more West Coast American? Almost as if they’ve been drinking tea with the Jefferson Airplane on Brighton beach or something. The Trudy have always had a slightly psychedelic undercurrent, they’re sounding a little more full-bodied this time around, maybe a touch more folky? Do like the way these seven chapters or seven pieces of seven verses fit together, Dear Sancho has such a lusciously hopeful opening and as we’ve already said previously, Every Story Even Told is just a gorgeous slice of timelessly beguiling 60’s flavoured psychedelic pop, Melissa Jo Heathcote’s vocal performance is wonderful. Giants Theme has some giant guitar playing, have we heard guitars like that from The Trudy before? Pop Pop is classic sugar coated Trudy pop, Pop Pop is kind of what you expect from them, Pop Pop is just brilliant pop music. As someone else said, The Trudy are probably the best pop band you never heard of, they’re smart, they make smart psychedelic flavoured English pop music, there’s probably a planet in a parallel universe somewhere where they’re the biggest pop band in the world but on this one they remain a well kept secret that needs to be shared a hell of a lot more than it has been. Go make friends with the Trudy,they make a fine cup of tea…
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