According to the fountain of all modern knowledge/ incoherently put together pack of lies that is Wikipedia, Tripwires changed their name from ‘The Enigma Project to be ‘more marketable’ and added synth player Joe on suggestion from The Automatic. Usually these would be completely legitimate reasons to hate them. Fortunately for the Huw Stephens favourites ‘Just So You Know’ is a brooding slice of indie doom that the late Cooper Temple Clause would have been proud of.
Such sonically pleasing misery and anger from a bunch of fresh-faced youths deserves to be applauded. Clap Clap Clap. Boo you Internet and your silly silly facts.

By Sophie Thomsett

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When a band cites the M4 and Travelodge’s amongst their influences it doesn’t fill you with confidence, yet despite taking inspiration from perhaps the blandest of things to be found in the UK Tripwires are anything but dull.

Their second single Just So You Know is released after spending the summer gracing festivals such as Brighton’s Great Escape and Bristol’s Dot To Dot and after first listen of the single it’s clear their place on the BBC Introducing Stage at this year’s Reading & Leeds is well deserved.

Sounding something like the Kaiser Chiefs blended with The Feeling only with huskier vocals, it would fit right at home somewhere on a Radio 1 playlist, somewhere between One Night Only and Royworld. In short Tripwires are another indie band who might not blow your socks off instantly but somehow sneak in unnoticed and become one of you top bands without you ever really knowing how.

The only complaint is that after turning it off, The Hoosiers – Worried About Ray became stuck on repeat in my head, as if to emphasise that whilst Tripwires might not being doing something all that innovative, what they are doing is without fault.

By Lisa Ward

Release Date: 21/7/08
Label: Josaka / Alibi
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