Sluts Of Trust We Are All Sluts Of Trust. Release Date : April 8, 2004. Label: Chemikal Underground Records. Rating: Andy doesn't dig rating stuff. I’m looking at song titles on this one – weird. Some of them are thos eblatheringly-long nonsensical emo-style names, and some are cryptic, single words, standard song titles… Listening through the first bit, I see how this makes sense. It’s all a bit scattered. It reminds me of a less-fluid Mr. Underhill, that sort of rolling, fun-but-dark 50’s-ish romp. The singer’s voice is all over the place too, and a bit odd. I’m not sure if I like it or not. He gets this distinctly East-Indian vocal warble sometimes. The second track begins with (this is rad in a backwards way) an Extreme-ish guitar riff (Flight of the Wounded BumbleBee, anyone?). I mean this is all really energetic, but it just sounds unfocussed. I want to like it badly. Sometimes he sounds like Morrissey, sometimes he sounds like Eddie Vedder. And sometimes he just sounds like some dude talking. The songs are really noisy, but again, scattered. Okay and then, it gets into a thrummy Primus-like guitar bit. It just never ends. Fun little bits and pieces. There are points where the voice exhibits awesome range and personality, but often it’s quite weak. It’s back too far in the mix, and too forced of a speak-sing. He needs to either cut loose and scream, or just talk more. Like, give me some Beck or something you know. But then every few lines, he ends it with a bluesy warble and a voice crack… I want to hear more of that! These guys just need a bit of tying up. It’s like they made the gym bag in Home Ec, they’ve just stuck the safety pin into the string and are starting to feed it through the drawstring channel… once they finish doing that, it’s gonna be so complete and so so awesome. They sound really ‘bar band’ right now, like the songs are a bit empty. So far the lyrics are pretty basic, but I’m only on the second track. It wouldn’t be such a big deal if the songs themselves were a bit more engaging. Art Schmart, right? Okay college band, not bar band. He needs to keep that vocal intensity up through full songs though, deepen the sound a bit more. Third track… Interesting guitar riffs all over this album. But is he singing with a Scottish accent?? He’s not actually Scottish is he? Now after this song, the album starts to get very fun. It’s odd but kinda cool. Track four rules. Holy that was very dorm-room of me. The band’s rubbing off. Do You Love It? What is he doing? Just repeating that over and over like it’s a disease. Maybe it is.Weird weird weird. They get points for creativity for sure. They conform to nothing going on these days, that’s for sure. Crap, more Scottish later on. Maybe he is.Yeah but they need another band member to fill in the empty spots. The voice also gets a bit Broadway at times, which is interesting. I love the uniqueness of this sound, but it needs a few elements to bring it up a notch an make it not sound like a club-goth band. Lyric of choice : Not many to choose from. For execution alone, Do you love it in all its many forms is great. Or maybe the blatant you look so fucking good… you sound like such a good idea, from “Let’s…” – which is a very Morrissey-ish song. Filled with sex. Oh yeah. He growls! Song of choice : “Leave You Wanting More” – great riff, more singing, perfectly rolling. -Andy Scheffler Elsewhere Sluts Of Trust website Published : November 15, 2004.