Iron Curtain Innocence
Excellent psychedelic outsider pop from the outskirts of 1980's American fringe music...

Iron Curtain Innocence

Bobb Trimble

€ 21,95
  • LP
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Secretly Canadian
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Trimble falls in the psychedelic loner category of American fringe music. 

He wrote melodic songs and had a high, pinched, somewhat feminine voice that gives his work an almost alien quality, especially given the way it fits into the haunting atmosphere of his compositions.

Though he was essentially making what constituted pop music in his head (but wouldn't in most people's minds), he seemed to have a grasp of his inevitable outsider status.

Iron Curtain Innocence is an imaginative debut sprinkled with a few excellent songs and a number of interesting sonic combinations, that are strangely captivating.

The real gems from the debut album are the fuzzed-out psych march "When the Raven Calls", and "One Mile From Heaven", a gentle, mostly acoustic song with a beautiful chorus that showcases his falsetto at its best. Trimble's second album, 1982's aptly named Harvest of Dreams, uses many of the same musical elements as the first, but the songs are a bit stronger and his grasp of atmosphere had developed considerably. That didn't stop him from including "Oh Baby", a bizarre track featuring Trimble and the Kidds, a band of pre-adolescent children he briefly fronted. Half the track is backward, and the part that's played forward is hardly any less odd, with its kid vocals and shaky drums.

Tracklist

A

  • 1.Glass Menagerie Fantasies05:53
  • 2.Night At The Asylum04:58
  • 3.When The Raven Calls06:40
  • 4.Your Little Pawn04:03

B

  • 1.One Mile From Heaven (Short Version)04:10
  • 2.Killed By The Hands Of An Unknown Rock Starr05:35
  • 3.Through My Eyes (Hopeless As Hell: D.O.A.)05:03
  • 4.One Mile From Heaven (Long Version)05:48

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