1. Soon

2. Regret

3. All at Once

4. The Shore

5. Boys of LA

6. Clowned

7. Dark Day

8. Performance

9. Warp

 

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The 4th full-length studio album by Robert Alfons aka TR/ST (fka Trust), 'Performance', sinks even further into the nasty synth-pop psychodrama that the project has pioneered and, finally, perfected across over a decade of evolution. Recorded in Los Angeles, the songs seethe with dread, lust, reckoning, and abandon, backlit by the light pollution of a thousand dead end city streets. Alfons co-produced the collection with versatile composer and producer Nightfeelings, achieving a thick, smoky balance of eerie synths, fog machine low end, and bruised, crooning voice.
The title alludes to a friend's offhand remark about Alfons' intrinsically performative nature. The opener, "Soon," swells to life with hymnal electronics before kicking through the dance floor with a huge new wave hook, spiked with caustic kiss-off lyrics ("Asleep I still say it aloud / Scared stiff it's all around / We never did call it off, now our organs dried / Scared stiff to stone, you liar"). The music moves between beauty and bitterness, anthem and anguish, the sound of melancholia gone massive. On track after track, Alfons wields pop dynamics and brooding production wizardry like a weapon, spiraling through a roll call of singles – "All At Once," "The Shore," "Dark Day," "Boys of LA." Throughout, there's a sense of emotional turmoil elevated to strange heights, stained by guilt and ghosts and the memory of those wronged and those still unforgiven.

As a world unto itself, Performance is persuasive, immersive, and intoxicating, at the threshold of stirring and disturbing. Alfons' voice is the anchor in the storm, singing a collage of impressions and confessions with a smeared, stream of consciousness logic. He's both observer and instigator, performer and playwright, liberated by the stage and the night: "Now we see the rotten mind / It's eye to eye and mysteries/ Sail your boat for shore / I sit by the window waiting for it."  

Written and produced by Robert Alfons
Mixed by Chris Coady
Mastered by Mike Bozzi
Designed by Collin Fletcher
Photography by Robert Alfons

 

September 13, 2024

 

https://found.ee/Performance

Edited July 9, 20242 yr by fa77ot

LOVE THE ALBUM COVER

 

manifesting it's a return to his debut sound

 

 

i'm so ******* ready. glad to see another Cecile Believe co-production on Dark Day and Warp  

I love Robert  one of the sweetest musicians I've met. 

 

And the cover is everything. 

Omg  yes to new music !

 

love the aesthetic 

I just got shivers with the description, Robert 

dark day sounds very good. i think this album will be a return to form for him, i liked everything except all at once so far.

 

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