Music News - TrinityRoots release new single 'El Kaptain' and announce brand new album 'Citizen'
20 February 2015 - 0 Comments
TRINITY
ROOTS ~ Citizen
Release Date: Friday 13th March 2015
iTunes Preorder: https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/citizen/id966414952?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
LISTEN TO THE NEW SINGLE EL KAPTAIN HERE NOW
The Wellington-based
Platinum-selling trio TrinityRoots follow up 2004's Home, Land, and Sea with their
highly anticipated third studio album Citizen. A progression from their previous two albums; musically
& lyrically, they have expanded their palette of colours and painted
an informed snap-shot of present day NZ.
With the departure of Jean
Pompey, Warren
Maxwell (vocals, guitar) and Rio Hemopo (bass) are
joined by new drummer Ben
Wood (Newtown
Rocksteady, Hikoikoi, Amiria Grenell, French For Rabbits). Citizen was recorded in the new Surgery Studio with legendary producer Lee Prebble (The
Black Seeds, The Pheonix Foundation, Flight of the Conchords).
Citizen will be
released Friday March 13th, and the trio will celebrate with performances at
the WOMAD festival in Taranaki, 13-15 March.
The band released their first single Haiku an urgent chugging track in
September 2014 and are strongly following that up with the release of El
Kaptain a bubbling analogy "reflecting
the arrogant, fiscal heavy result of the last election. A selfish Captain of a
gold laden vessel for the elite... Given ironic license by the apathetic
villagers - a true tale of woe!"
Citizen finds doses of Sabbath & Queens of the Stone Age in amongst
their signature eclectic mash up'. The track Bully combines an ancient
style of Maori melody (waiata tawhito) with a Sabbath-esque bridge – making for
a dynamic listen. They have adhered to their classic TrinityRoots process of
inviting lots of their incredibly talented friends to join them on the
recording and in staying true to the bands roots there is a mash-up of politics
and love throughout the writing. The song Citizen was inspired by writings of
his Holiness The Dalai Lama – ‘The Paradox of our times’. “We are a complex,
cancerous species but there is hope waiting in the wings.”
Says Maxwell “As an
over-critical, pedantic, self-deprecating, arrogant, stubborn, egotistic
musician, I feel really happy with this record. I feel anxious yet content in
that we have made it a challenging listen. I feel like we’ve tried to stay true
and sincere to all kaupapa in the songs – they all come from a genuine place
for genuine purpose. Our intent is the same as it has always been – to convey
honest musings on a vehicle of sonic influences to whomever wishes to listen.”
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