Traps - Crack Machine
TRAPS formed in Thanet, Kent in 2019 with the aim of pushing musical boundaries. The duo were both members of the sludge/post-metal oufit OHHMS but wanted to challenge themselves by writing music as a two piece that stretched their creativity further. Beginning with more complex styles such as math rock (The Fighter EP, Halfmeltedbrain Records) and noise punk on the LIFE vs. DEATH split, they have evolved a distinct heaviness as they have progressed and have consciously shifted genre with every recording.
'Crack Machine' is their latest EP and sees the band return to more of a doom-laden sound, and includes some riffs that were intended for OHHMS but, for whatever reason, never made it. TRAPS launch the listener through all the hedonistic excesses as well as the highs, and the lows, of a wild night out - all with a sardonic grin on their faces. Intriguingly titled songs catapult the listener into the world of TRAPS and lurch from the relative tranquility of the more melodic meanderings into all-out doomy and aggressive assaults on the senses. There is nothing in the world of TRAPS that is predictable or expected so, with that in mind, immerse yourself in 'Crack Machine'.
'Crack Machine' is available to order on CD digipak via Road To Masochist and comes with a set of four pictorial representations of the tracks.
All artwork by PEW_1987. Recorded, Mixed and Produced by Ian Sadler at Really Big Audio, Kent.
