{"product_id":"tr-st-performance","title":"TR\/ST - PERFORMANCE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 4th full-length studio album by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.daisrecords.com\/collections\/trst\" title=\"Robert Alfons, also known as TR\/ST on Dais Records\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRobert Alfons aka TR\/ST (fka Trust)\u003c\/a\u003e, '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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 (\u003cem\u003e\"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\"\u003c\/em\u003e). 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs 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:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Volcanic Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53258208346412,"sku":null,"price":56.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/3947\/9852\/files\/DAIS229_TRST_Performance_2000px70q.webp?v=1780363847","url":"https:\/\/volcanicvinyl.co.nz\/products\/tr-st-performance","provider":"Volcanic Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}