Following on from the release Dies in 55 earlier in the month, Trailer Trash Tracys release double A side single Wish You Were Red / Englhardt’s Arizona on digital download and 7″ Vinyl. With fleece lined texture and the reverberations of Suzanne Aztoria’s mermaid vocals, it lays a lot of potential at the door of their debut album Ester in January 2012.
Wish You Were Red is cued up with stripped back beats before a bold and excellently simple bass refrain spills on the track that sounds like it took inspiration from Baba O’Riley by The Who. Complexities flood the rest of the song in bits and pieces (not the Dave Clarke Five variety) and Aztoria’s vocals are angelic and mesmerising, sounding like a female Jim Reid, although Karen Parker might be a better comparison.
Engelhardt’s Arizona is much less instantly gratifying, but seems to hit you enough about half way through to make sense. It’s got a blitzingly rapid arpeggio riff stroking throughout, of the Anna Calvi Joan of Arc variety, but without the ease of style. However, come about 2.09 and definitely by 2.27 it gets more and more likeable, but by 3.27 you realise that there’s a lot to take in.
The Wish You Were Red / Engelhardt’s Arizona double A side single will be released on the 31st October 2011.
Trailer Trash Tracys, Wish You Were Red / Engelhardt’s Arizona double A side single review: 5/5
