TRAPS
TRAPS – STANDARD LIFE
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STANDARD LIFE / BRAINWASHER – Limited 7” release out MAY 1st.
RICE IS NICE are excited to bring you the first vinyl release from Traps.
After a successful single release in 2008, leading to an onslaught of live performances including playing with These New Puritans (UK), Children Collide, Pivot and festivals Playground Weekender, Essential Festival and My Filthy Riot, Traps are now on to their second release which is the smashingly limited 7” ‘Standard Life’.
‘Standard Life’ is the second single, but first to vinyl from Sydney based Traps. Its powerful rhythm section and off kilter guitars, complemented by hypnotic vocals create a driving anthem to kick off what is set to be a busy year for these fine gents. This limited press 7” also plays the rare b-side ‘Brainwasher’, a song composed almost entirely on a Casio keyboard fed through washing delays, distortion and flangers, creating an eerie, ghostly sound, a new side to traps not yet heard!
Traps are Kieran Day on vocals, guitar and keys; Ben Hassell on lead guitar and vocals; Matt Edge on bass and Mal Page on drums.
TRAPS are back in the studio in the last few months of 09 recording their debut album which will be released sometime next year.
As of November 2009, Traps don’t own that ‘indie rock’ label as fully as they used to. In its place is something a little more diverse, the percussion ramping up, Kieran Day experiencing some Buckley moments on vocals and the guitars ramming it home with plenty to do. It’s less We Are Scientists and more Eddy Current. Less indie, more noise, more psych, more fitting for their new label, Rice Is Nice. – Inpress
Combining quick paced guitar stabs, a driving beat and nonchalant vocals, this is the finest slice of indie I’ve heard come out of this city in a while. - 3D world
It’s Impossible to ignore the fact that Traps are a talented band - Polaroids Of Androids
There is something about the bands sounds that is so fantastically abrasive. - Music Feeds
