Trophy Scars - Holy Vacants( Limited 2 x 180g Coloured Vinyl+CD+poster) New

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Trophy Scars - Holy Vacants (Limited 2 x 180g Blue/Black Marbled Clear Vinyl+CD+poster) New & Sealed
Limited pressing deluxe 180 gm double gatefold edition with a free poster and album CD included inside: 750 copies clear with blue with black marble. Holy Vacants, the fourth album from Trophy Scars, sees the New Jersey quartet deliver their magnum opus as they continue to evolve their sound. "Holy Vacants" was intended the band’s final album , but instead constitutes a complete rebirth. “I thought we had one more record in us and we wanted to go out with a bang”,says  Jones. Guitarist Ferrara, who Jones calls “an unbelievable composer”, sent the singer some bare-bones riffs and he found himself connecting with them immediately, hearing how they might work with strings here, a Moog and organ, maybe some brass and an all-girl choir there. And listening to the likes of opener “Archangel” and “Qeres”, with its free-wheeling but complex and cathartic, psychedelic blues, it’s obvious the band have moved light years away from their post-hardcore early years. They reveal their admiration for fellow New Jersey son Springsteen, circa Darkness on the Edge of Town with “Crystallophobia”, “Everything Disappearing” and “Extant”, and for Jimi Hendrix via “Hagiophobia”, while elsewhere there are echoes of Guns N’ Roses and The Mars Volta. But what might sound like an unworkable agglomeration of disparate parts is an intense and cohesive, hugely compelling whole, with powerful contrasts that make for a visceral immediacy.
Tracks :  1. Extant  2. Qeres   3. Archangel    4. Crystallophobia  5. Burning Mirror  6. Hagiophobia   7. Chicago Typewriter  8. Vertigo   9. Gutted  10. Every City, Vacant  11. Everything Disappearing  12. Nyctophobia
Released by Monotreme Records Cat. no. MONO 85VNL.
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