Trimdon Grange Explosion - Dreams Buried Under The Sea Trimdon Grange Explosion

A superb 10 track record that follows 2018’s self titled debut on Cardinal Fuzz, (which prompted Rolling Stone’s David Fricke to describe them as “arch modernists within their historical domain…like a farm-house Velvet Underground”). “Dreams Buried Under The Sea” is at times uplifting, often heavily melancholic, and marks a culmination of sorts for Trimdon.

Recorded in rehearsal rooms and homes in the aftermath of a pandemic, “Dreams…” carries a sense of Autumn: an ending of things, and new beginnings. Of harvesting and the storing of all that is good, in preparation for the harsh winter to come.

Initially falling together from the ashes of sometimes celebrated electric-folkies, The Eighteenth Day Of May, back in 2006, Trimdon Grange Explosion have a way of taking their time. Built on the strong friendships of the individuals going way back, their approach to music-making has involved infrequent London based live appearances, but lots of recording, the results offered forward only when necessary.

Not completely putting their folk tendencies to one side, the album documents a band learning to communicate with the new line-up; a sound that stretches from the Albion Country Band’s pastoral intricacy to Pavement’s lo-fi inscrutability by way of The Rain Parade/Byrdsian school of chiming guitars.