The Trypes - Explorers Hold - Feelies Related Great EP
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"Glenn Mercer and Bill Million joined the Trypes' founder John Baumgartner in 1982, since they left the Feelies aside for a period of time. In this band they also met the future Feelies members Brenda Sauter and Stan Demeski. The Trypes recorded in 1984 a beautiful soft psychedelic EP: here woodwinds and keyboards are prominent compared to the Feelies' usual guitar-dominated sound. The group evolved later into Speed the Plough."
"The seven-person Trypes are the quietest, most introspective of the bunch, and The Explorers Hold is a placid, constantly shifting landscape of sounds. The four songs emphasize coloration not beat, yet, for all its subdued calm, there's an explosive tension bubbling underneath the music. The muted guitars threaten — but never give way to — riotous mayhem. Only on the cover of George Harrison's "Love You To" do drummer Stan Demeski's hyperkinetic tom-tom patterns come to the fore, making the Trypes a loud psychedelic folk band. The quieter songs, complete with woodwinds and keyboards, are hauntingly beautiful." EX/EX condition.
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