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Traams

One of the wider-ranging bands of the post-punk revival, TRAAMS' taut outbursts are just as convincing as their expansive, motorik-driven meditations. When the the Chichester, West Sussex-based trio emerged in the early 2010s, the volatile mix of catharsis and experimentation on releases like 2013's debut album Grin distinguished them from their more straightforward contemporaries. Though they turned up the volume on 2015's Modern Dancing, TRAAMS' horizons continued to broaden. While seven years separated that album and personal best, the complex songwriting and electronically enhanced instrumentation of their third full-length revealed that TRAAMS were still challenging themselves and their audience. Singer/guitarist Stuart Hopkins, drummer Adam Stock, and bassist Leigh Padley met at Goo, a DJ night Hopkins hosted at a bar in nearby Bognor Regis, where he spun songs by Wire, New Order, and Le Tigre along with mainstream pop and rap hits. Bonding over their shared taste in music, which also included a fondness for McLusky, Pavement, Television, and Kraftwerk, and started playing together in mid- 2011. Taking their name from the acronym for the aviation term Time Reference Angle of Arrival Measurement System, TRAAMS recorded some Krautrock-meets-punk demos on their phones. They sent the demos to producer and former Test Icicles member Rory Atwell, recording their first set of songs with him in November 2011 and worked with him through 2012, the same year the band signed with Fat Cat. Early in 2013, they recorded with Hookworms' Matthew Johnson at his Leeds studio and released the Ladders EP that June. TRAAMS' first full-length, Grin, appeared that September. The band reunited with Atwell for the Cissa EP, which arrived in July 2014. After relocating to Leeds, TRAAMS worked with Johnson again on their second album, November 2015's more streamlined-sounding and cleanly recorded Modern Dancing. The following October, the band released the eight-minute single "A House on Fire" and toured the U.K.in 2017. TRAAMS then went on hiatus, with Hopkins finishing and releasing two leftover tracks, "Intercontinental Radio Waves" and "The Greyhound," in 2020. Meanwhile, Padley formed the project Social Haul (which issued its self-titled debut album in 2021) and Stock expanded his repertoire to include synthesizers. Just before the COVID-19 global pandemic, TRAAMS began working on new music in Brighton. When lockdowns made recording at full volume impossible due to the possibility of disturbing neighbors, the band took a different tack. Employing a drum machine and quieter, more considered approach, they completed their third album at Hopkins' studio space in Chichester. Featuring more collaborative songwriting between Padley and Hopkins as well as vocal cameos by Protomartyr's Joe Casey, Lowly's Soffie Viemose, and Menace Beach's Liza Violet, personal best appeared in July 2022.
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