EP Review – New Hobby by Trinket (2024) (Sad Club Records)
With a self-deprecating Bandcamp profile that merely read “jangle-pop from hell’ all female New York trio, Trinket, appear to defy their own expectations with a debut New Hobby EP that takes the best that both shoegaze and jangle-pop have to offer and melt them within a sense of undiluted sweetness.
As such the release is bookended by Figure Skater and Halo 22 which commence with the alluring Hatchie-style vocals of Madison Kate Proffitt before just about stepping of the melodic Lush end of shoegaze and gently flirting with a My Bloody Valentine wall of guitars and noise without ever being engulfed by any sense of their abrasion.
The other two tracks hover with jangled riff lucidity around Proffit’s stunning vocals as Silver Thread shapes and josteles chunky chiming riffs into perfection, whereas the title track commences with the tight, incidental jangled riffs that augmented the sound of so many Sarah Records acts before gradually developing into a Local Derby sense of faux jangly indie-rock energy.
New Hobby, especially as a debut release, truly underlines the potential of this soon to be ‘indie elite’ act.
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