Irregular Records I Thought I Saw you... [VINYL]

‘I thought I saw You…’ sees Shaw’s Trailer Park return for that ‘not so difficult’ second album. Having recorded their debut album live in one session to great result, the band have shifted up a gear creating nine tracks of sonic sultry blues, a rootsy racket throbbing and pulsating down the rock’n’roll highway with a fuzzed up,foot down, pedal to the metal. Taking a similar route, but giving themselves more time, they worked up a selection of songs for this new project whitling down 15 tracks to the 8 you hear here. Pushing further into the psych and dustbowl Americana influences whilst maintaining their feel for their beloved 60s garage rock the album sees a more sonically varied selection. Recorded once more with Ali Gavan at Brighton Road Studios in the Sussex countryside over 4 separate sessions the band have pushed further into the dustbowl psych sound they’ve been exploring, meshing Americana and garage rock influences. Lyrically Sanpher’s writing still draws mostly from the country voodoo picture-scapes we’ve come to expect but songs like ‘Put It Down’ and ‘Overdriver’ see more down to earth references. ‘Sun Device’ and ‘Don’t Put Your Baby Over There’ give the rhythm section of Mark Wilson and Andy Fraser (bass and drums respectively) room to find their groove and lay down the foundations for Simon Smith and T Sanpher’s guitar weaving. Elsewhere ‘Sunday’ and ‘On the News’ see the band mature with more time spent in the studio to start producing psychedelic landscapes. Add to this the power-pop garage jangle of “Crash Landing” and relentless groove of ‘Lost and Found’ and you have a very complete and sonically varied piece of work. "We put a lot of love and fuzz pedals into this one.." says T. An altogether psyched out rocking statement of intent.