Name: Joyland
Brand: Trust

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ac087lp

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-02-20

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0827590870017

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Trust

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Arts And Crafts

Arts & Crafts Productions is a music-focused media and artist services company that operates as an independent record label, management firm, merchandiser, and publisher worldwide. With 21 JUNO Awards under its belt, Arts & Crafts has solidified itself as one of Canada's most important record labels.

Since its inception, Arts & Crafts has been dedicated to nurturing and promoting talented artists from various genres. The label prides itself on providing a platform for *musicians* to showcase their unique sounds and artistic visions.

As an influential force in the music industry, Arts & Crafts offers comprehensive support to its roster of talented *artists*. From recording and distribution to marketing and promotion, the label ensures that each artist receives the necessary resources to succeed in today's competitive landscape.

Unfurling in a miasmic fog of smoke and synths, 'Trst', the 2012 debut LP from Toronto-based Trust was a darkly glittering electro goth opus, an obsidian black gem of brittle longing and sexual melodrama which captivated listeners and critics alike. Now comes the second LP, 'Joyland'. And where 'Trst' effectively mapped out the groundwork for Alfons' vein of dark psychodrama, 'Joyland' pushes the boundaries outwards and upwards. The blood red dance anthems are present and correct ('Geryon', urgent teaser track 'Rescue, Mister', 'Four Gut') but this album is also much more shaded emotively. The likes of 'Are We Arc?' and 'Capitol' reveal a beating heart pulsing beneath the beats, and elsewhere the album reveals some truly audacious pop excursions, as with Alfons' childlike vocals on the title track, the soaring choruses of 'Peer Pressure', and on the uplifting call and response of 'Lost Souls / Eelings'. This is electro pop alright, but not as we know it - it's something much more elusive, seductive and unknowable than that. Not for nothing does Alfons himself describe it as 'an eruption of guts, eels and joy'.

Joyland

Music GB