Brighton five-piece SHAW'S TRAILER PARK are making serious headway mixing garage-psych and roots rock. Vive Le Rock's Wayne Larson casts judgement on their debut album...
SHAW’S TRAILER PARK
SHAW’S TRAILER PARK
(Swamp Song)
Dustbowl psych from the South Coast.
8/10
Having cut his teeth with Stoke Newington’s gothic country-punks, John Wayne Army, guitarist Tim Sanpher headed for the sunnier climes of Brighton at the turn of the millennium, where eventually he corralled the musicians you hear on this, Shaw’s Trailer Park’s self-titled debut. Tough to pigeonhole precisely, the eight tracks here represent a travelogue of great American music: opener ‘Don’t Do That’ is a full-on garage thrash, while ‘Sun Device’ brings in a Gretschy rockabilly tremolo twang and mellifluous jazzy Steve Mackay-style sax, courtesy of Donna Butler as it navigates its long propulsive psych workout. With its reverbed vocals and intense three-note almost-Krautrock groove, ‘Rainbow Man’ resembles a friendlier Loop. Then ‘She’s Alright’ and ‘Memory’ crib heavily, but well, from the ‘Nuggets’ playbook by way of the Velvets and the Elevators. Amazingly, it all hangs together really cohesively and hopefully they’re a blast live. Paisley Underground fans will dig this.
Shaw's Trailer Park play What's Cookin', Leytonstone, London on Wednesday 22 November - tickets
