Trade WindYou Make Everything Disappear

Trade Wind—a combined effort of Jesse Barnett (Stick To Your Guns) and Tom Williams (Stray From The Path)—have finally released their follow-up to 2014’s Suffer Just To Believe EP. Opening track I Hope I Don’t Wake Up will sound familiar to fans. The heaviest guitar work on the album serves as a suitable introduction. There’s not much hope for optimism here. Preferring darker lyrical content and a delicate musical backdrop, You Make Everything Disappear is downright bleak. Lowest Form borrows from the Tool playbook with leaden bass puncturing through the heart of the song. It’s fitting that a line like “You only take your shots when I’m exposed/the only break I get when you reload” isn’t screamed, but sung like a man who’s exhausted of the whole affair.

This would be an absolute mess if it wasn’t held so strongly together by real life heartbreak and full instrumentation.

As the album progresses, Trade Wind shift away from heavier instrumentals toward a lighter touch. Grey Light feels like a feature track on the new Chet Faker effort, replete with lilted keyboard and echoed percussion. Faker likely wouldn’t dare drop the depressing and honest line “I suffer the endless doubt/While I cum in your mouth,” though.  It’s a brutal picture of rock bottom. This would be an absolute mess if it wasn’t held so strongly together by real life heartbreak and full instrumentation. Backed only by a piano during Untitled, Barnett finally begs for his ex-girlfriend to take him back. Rather than remain in a pit of despair, the closing track Je T’aimerais Toujours ends with the singer exclaiming in French “I will always love you.” It’s a beautiful end to an incredibly personal effort.

STANDOUT TRACKS: I Hope I Don’t Wake Up, Grey Light, Untitled
STICK THIS NEXT TO: Night Verses, No Bragging Rights, Balance and Composure

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Read our interview with Jesse here!