The thing is rhythm does exist. It is a beat, something you can literally feel, something steady, sometimes slow, sometimes fast and sometimes people will go for the offbeat on purpose but Trash Kit have decided that rhythm, as we know it is wrong and so we end up hearing a mash of odd beats, strange sounds and screaming. Now don’t get me wrong, screaming is cool. I listen to a lot of metal and that has its fair share of screaming but this is not well constructed screaming, it is just girls screaming at you, right in your face, no lyrics involved, just making noise at you like freaking lunatics. Some of the songs lull you into a false sense of security by offering you near catchy sounding material but then they bring it all crashing down with another dose of unnecessary strange. The other thing that really aggravated me is how short all the songs are. Again an attempt at being different from the expected norm. Fair enough, have a couple of short tracks but making every song about a minutes worth of random is annoying after a while. Just as you start to think you might be finding some kind of depth to the track it changes to another song. I found the self titled album seriously pretentious, it’s like they’re saying "if you don’t like our music it’s only because you can’t think outside the box."


People might say this is music in its most natural form and I’m inclined to agree, it is reminiscent of a toddler, on the floor with his mummy’s pots and pans and yeh it might be liberating if it’s you making the sounds but I personally don’t want to listen to it on an album. A jam session can be free, beautiful and deep; people mixing sounds and beats, lyrics and feelings and they can often sound incredible but the awful sessions people don’t talk about for a reason, when it doesn’t work it simply doesn't work.

I don’t enjoy ripping a band up because there are definitely people out there that are enjoying Trash Kit otherwise they wouldn’t be getting anywhere but personally, I think even if you don’t want to be slotted into a genre, sometimes you have to just accept that completely out there, weird, strange things aren't likely to be accepted; the music industry is fickle and even the weirdest metal bands conform to their genre in order to be successful, and why would you start a band with no intentions of ever going anywhere with it? As I said, some people must like Trash Kit or they wouldn’t be playing venues and making CDs but don’t expect to see them on MTV anytime soon.