Sweet Trip - You Will Never Know Why

Sweet Trip’s music was primarily characterized by aloofness, left brain unpredictability, hard electronic glitches, minimal lyrics, minimal vocals, and dancey programming. You Will Never Know Why however, sits on the right, featuring less chaos, more intimacy from the artists, and clearer straightforward instrumentation. Heaven forbid, we hear actual lyrics and live drums. It is a record truer to pop or rock, however fans of the innovative Sweet Trip trademark sound will be relieved to know that the glitchy, bleepy and dreamy elements have not been abandoned altogether, but are arranged in a much more delicate, ornate and balanced form. This is Sweet Trip’s most confident and melodiously focused album to date. A favorite amongst its rather eccentric members, Roby Burgos (vocals, guitars, synths, programming) Valerie R. Cooper (vocals, guitars, synths), Aaron Porter (bass) and newly joined, Rob Uytingco (drums). Thirteen lucky tracks complete Sweet Trip’s third full length album. What makes You Will Never Know Why special is that it is not another clichéd, independently produced low budget pop record. The album is very sophisticated. The intelligent, understated lyrics are far from trite. Songs are laden with groovy pulsing bass lines, and there is both a Bossa, Latin and post-punk feel to the songs. There are beautiful chords, immaculate sounding acoustic guitars, complex rhythms, odd time signatures, dramatic and interesting melodic changes, lush strings, and highly imaginative sound effects.
 

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