Band’s second album of fuzzed-out, garage-influenced songs.
Shaw’s Trailer Park were formed in 2021 by singer and guitarist Tim Sanpher who, upon moving to Brighton, recruited bassist Mark Wilson and drummer Andy Fraser. After a few months rehearsing as a threesome, Simon Smith was added on second guitar. The band are named after a real place on the south coast where Sanpher grew up. Shaw’s Trailer Park merge Sanpher’s love of 1960s garage and rock’n’roll music with Smith’s fondness of americana. The band’s promotional material bills this album as “a new collection of fuzzed out garage psych” but there are also nods to the sounds of the Paisley Underground.
Having recorded their debut album live in one session, the nine songs on this release were recorded over four separate stints with Ali Gavan at Brighton Road Studios in the Sussex countryside. The resulting 15 songs were whittled down to the nine which appear on this release. To quote Sanpher, “We put a lot of love and fuzz pedals into this one“. The album opens with ‘Overdrive’ with its thundering bass and driving guitar, it lays down a template for how things continue. Lyrically many of the songs are fairly straightforward, as demonstrated by ‘On The News’; ‘On the News, She Stares at Shoes, She’s Got the Blues, Solid News’. ‘Crash Landing’ is the jangliest song on the album with the harmonies to the fore. ‘Sunday’ is another heady melange of garage guitar and the band’s harmonies which are complemented well by Sam Ireland on many numbers. ‘Don’t Put Your Baby Over There!’ is a New York rocker with references to ‘The Velvet Underground’ and ‘Where They Shot John Lennon Down’. Things come to close with ‘Out Mind’ with Sanpher’s guitar and rock’n’roll influences prominent.
Americana music is a broad church and if a wedding were to be held in it, where the dress code was smart, Shaw’s Trailer Park, are the rabble-rousing guests who arrive in their oil-stained denims and with a glint in their eye, impatient for the service to finish and the garage band influenced party to start.
