Name: Performance
Brand: TR/ST

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DAIS229LP

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Limited edition

Release date

2024-09-13

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DAIS229LPC

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TR/ST

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Electronic

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Dais

TR/ST is a talented mixing engineer known for their unique sound and innovative approach to music. With a career spanning over [number] years, they have worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, consistently delivering high-quality mixes that captivate audiences worldwide.
Their passion for music began at an early age, and they quickly developed a keen ear for detail and an innate understanding of how to create sonic landscapes that resonate with listeners. Through their meticulous attention to every element of a mix, TR/ST has earned a reputation as one of the most sought-after engineers in the business.
Whether working on electronic tracks or collaborating with artists from various genres, TR/ST brings their signature touch to each project. Their ability to seamlessly blend different elements and create cohesive sounds sets them apart from other mixing engineers. With an extensive knowledge of audio technology and production techniques, TR/ST consistently pushes boundaries and creates immersive listening experiences.

Dais Records is an independent American record label founded by Gibby Miller and Ryan Martin in 2007. Based in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York, Dais Records operates as a genre-agnostic label with a focus on experimental and avant-garde music. The label represents both emerging and established active artists while also curating rare and out of print material for reissue projects. Dais Records exclusively distributes its releases through Secretly Distribution.

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.”

Performance

Music GB

Discover Performance by TR/ST on Dais Records. Dive into the synth-pop psychodrama of this exclusive vinyl album. Embrace the eerie synths and bruised vocals.