New Chants

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Traps PS are a band that breaks less is more all the way down to less is everything. You get it: like the Minutemen, the songs are short because they dont need to be long. And like the Minutemen, sixty seconds of Traps PS hits harder and resonates longer than five-tentwenty sloppy minutes from somebody else. Or like Gang of Four, who got it from James Brown, who is a fundamental Traps PS inspirationTraps PS cares about discipline, rhythm and clarity. Says drummer Miles Wintner: We dont waste time.

Think Wires precision minimalism, antidote to the over-the-top spectacle of punk and pop both. Youll hear it in Seven Voices or the albums title track. Think Public Image and that caustic, corrosiveand purer for itdissonance. Youll hear it in Two Truths, with its ragged semi-chorus of Emmmmmmbrace Think the Contortions, who tore out everything in their songs except the rhythm and discovered there wasnt much else theyd needed anyway, except for some saxophone used more as flamethrower than musical instrument. Youll hear that as Fourth Walls falls in on itself. And then think about Traps PS, who thought about what they didnt need and then threw it out, and who made an album only out of what they felt mattered most: Let it be what it is, says Jeffords. New Chants is barely twenty minutes longbut its got everything.