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TRUDY AND THE ROMANCE IS THERE A PLACE I CAN GO

Trudy and The Romance's woozy, lovelorn wonky pop finds a new pace on 'Is There A Place I Can Go' from new EP Junkyard Jazz. Described by the band as “a love song about family, friends and coming of age in the new world," it's an uncertain ballad for fraught times. Stop-start guitars and chirruping piano frame a lovers' waltz around an apocalypic wasteland, while the group throw all toys out the box, all manner of weird and wonderful instrumentation fading in and out of focus. The trio snarling and sniffling like the basement-dwelling, bleary-eyed cousin to The Magic Gang's bouncy beach-pop, it's a multi-tonal take on the joy, despair and complication of young love, and another promising step from one of British indie's most idiosyncratic groups. - TC

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