Trilemma Review

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Trilemma

Crowded Wilderness (7 inch Single) ( Kitchen Records)
Push What is Collapsing (LP) (Blue Minnow Records)
Caveat Emptor (Mini LP) (Fence Records)

Trilemma from those who may have my interview with them on "Setting Sun" from ages ago, will have discovered that they are that rare sort of band who don't have one specific sort of sound, instead choosing to explore a whole host of different ideas, all of which sound like them.

Take their full length LP "Push What is Collapsing" on Blue Minnow Records. Enclosed within this LP are tracks like "Spiralling into control" which made me think of Air expect backed by an 80's synth pop backing, which is followed by "Owed to Summer" which is a much more slower paced track, perhaps akin to Philip Glass or even John Cage, both of which are excellent but are then overshadowed again by the finale "Tear Gasometers", which is certainly a track that could be used in a film soundtrack, but for it to be used in a way that would prove benefital to the film, this would have to be a devestingly haunting and beautiful film. Excellent.

The other two releases "Crowded Wilderness" and "Caveat Emptor" which I purchased at the same time as "Push" are not perhaps quite as essential but are both well worth getting as well as the full length album.

"Cavert" for example is the more cinematic of the two with the best track "None of the above" perhaps
Being left to last, and which made me think to the catchphrase used by Richard Prior in Brewster's Millins even though the song sounds completely nothing like that.

"Crowded Wilderness" in contrast to that sounds like the most song based release out of the three with each of the four though all nicely done did make me wish for the occasional instrumental break used to excellent effect on the other two releases.

To conclude, all three releases are well worth picking up, be it for completely different reasons with in some ways each release almost sounding like it was coming from a completely different band in places, which of course is always a good sign, which is something that doesn't happen no where near enough for my personal taste. Excellent.