New Chants

Traps PS

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Cat No: IL2058V

Release Date: 17 August 2018

Label: Innovative Leisure / Round Hill Records

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 0810874022769

Genres: Rock

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Traps PS are a band that breaks "less is more" all the way down to "less is everything." You get it: like the Minutemen, the songs are short because they don't need to be long. And like the Minutemen, sixty seconds of Traps PS hits harder and resonates longer than five-ten-twenty sloppy minutes from somebody else. Or like Gang of Four, who got it from James Brown, who is a fundamental Traps PS inspiration-Traps PS cares about discipline, rhythm and clarity. Says drummer Miles Wintner: "We don't waste time."They've always been unafraid to do what needed to be done, this practically telepathic trio of Wintner, bassist/backing vocalist Danny Miller and singer/guitarist Andrew Jeffords. They recorded and released records on their community-oriented/community-involved label Papermade and played any space they'd fit-lost all ages institutions like L.A.'s Pehrspace or not-exactly legal "guerilla" shows on city streets and in dusty Inglewood oil fields. But with their first full-length in three years coming into focus, they found L.A. independent label Innovative Leisure ready to amplify that DIY capability: "We've done so much in our own bubble that it was exciting to explore another aspect," says Jeffords. "I'm enjoying inviting people into our family.By the time they walked into Long Beach's Jazzcats studio-where labelmates like Hanni El Khatib and the Molochs recorded with producer Jonny Bell-they had more than twenty songs nearly fully finished, trimmed to their most necessary components and rehearsed only enough to sharpen the original inspiration. That was the most important part, says Jeffords, to capture that ecstatic lightning-strike instant that sparked a song in the first place, and to make sure it never fizzled out. "If we didn't have that feeling," he adds, "the song would have never made it out of the rehearsal studio."Their last full-length was about energy, says Jeffords, an echo of the helicopters that shook the walls in his old apartment and the car crashes in the street. New Chants would be dark
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