Patach's Full Review: The Lonely Position of Neutral by Trust Company
Time plays a huge role in the music industry. It gives the chance for imitators of past and/or dead music bands to lift themselves into the amateur or underground (or whatever they call it nowadays) sky just for a little bit of time, before MTV ruins their career after posting their music video before “Real World”.
I guess, by example, Trust Company is of that sort of genre of music. But let’s not forget why they’re here on the spotlight. They are here because I frickin’ heard their music before about 8 years ago! No, no… I don’t think Trust Company was around at that time. And I don’t think the world even noticed their presence in the world a year ago (which wouldn’t surprise me).
When you pop in the CD, Lonely Position of Neutral into your computer, you start noticing Trust’s woefully crafted Downfall, using everything you’ve heard from angst filled teen heart bands like: Papa Roach, Staind, Linkin Park, and KoRn. Downfall even starts their Gothic poetry with the words “Fear in me”. Oh, beautiful, Kevin Palmer. Very beautiful. Certainly Sylvia Plath right there!
Now, lyrics is only one part of a song, so even if Trust Company really dwelled in a certain crap phase in writing, it shouldn’t be that bad if the music redeems it, but knowing from the example of Static X’s great and exciting song, nearly ruined because it was about scat, Love Dump, I’m always wary.
Fortunately, this didn’t give me a feeling of what I had towards Love Dump, because not only did the lyrics suck. So did the entire Downfall song. Which I give a plus for Trust Company on a work crafted well enough to help me formulate a complete opinion. Making it much easier to write reviews! Yippee!
Downfall contains millions of things you’ve heard before in an Angst filled teen heart rock band. Starting out with a super hard rock riff played over and over while Kevin Palmer, singer and guitarist, makes the decision to start singing. Then while he’s spouting out about how bad things are in his life, the bassist seizes the opportunity to start playing a low key riff, to contrast with Kevin’s high Linkin Park-esque voice. Then he builds up his voice to a close point of nearly shouting and suddenly letting go, like KoRn does all the time. Then the music goes hard again, until he starts singing, then it does those sensational long chords that sound like you could spend a lifetime between, with Kevin Palmer again singing during it. Excellent.
No, it’s not excellent. And it’s neither creative to start making all your songs sound the same. That description of Downfall might’ve well been a description for the entire album. There's only small differences between the songs. The cool thing about picking out the small differences between songs is that you can play a game called “distinguish which angst filled teen heart rock band you’ve heard this song before”.
Such as Trust’s second song *snicker* Falling Apart. Which plays like the traditional “angst filled teen heart rock band soft song of the album”. It’s, like its brothers, sensational putting long guitar riffs (which really are just two notes alternating) to give the listener an “aura feel to a rock song”. But Linkin Park did it first, ya know, and I really didn’t like it the first time.
Of course, all the songs have the “aura feel”. Ranging from Downfall to the final song, Take it all.
Other songs, such as Hover, Slipping Away, Drop to Zero, Finally and Fear are especially bad in trying to show Individualism, through playing soft. There were times between these songs when I didn’t notice the CD changed tracks. I was sitting there for 10 minutes, amazed some stupid rock band actually recorded a 15 minute song. But then I noticed that Trust was using a different single two note riff then before. And then breaking into a different fast two note riff. A soft, then fast riff is their constant formula in a lot of songs like this.
Even faster songs such as Figure 8, Deeper into You, Take it All are once again, two note riffs this time played at a higher speed, pausing for that “aura feel” that everybody is excited about. I noticed, especially in the fast songs, that it sounded as if Trust copied every fast and slow riff that they have from Linkin Park or any other angst filled teen heart rock band, but adjusting it slightly to make it original.
Short note, Running from me… should just be called Downfall Part two… because really… I DID NOT find a single thing different between this song and Downfall, except probably the scit scatting of Kevin Palmer.
There really isn’t much of a redeeming value to this band, unless you like to listen a dummed down version of Linkin Park, Trust Company really isn’t that exciting at all. They’re boring, their songs sound too much similar to each other, their chords, and the riffs that cover them are just bland, and chalky. And even if you do enjoy a song they play, it’s just a blander version of someone else’s Angst filled song (mentioning the entire Linkin Park thing again). I’m sure, if they just sort it out on their next album, they could. But originality is the key to every band, and Trust doesn’t have any of that. Better luck next time, I guess.
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