“Trixies” could have been Squeeze’s first album. Written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook when they were just 19 and 16 respectively, “Trixies” is a concept album born of imagination and nostalgia. Inspired by a fictional members’ club dreamt up in the early 1970s and imagined as existing in the future (the 1980s), the album channels a world reminiscent of a 1920s or 30s speakeasy – glamorous, smoky, and populated by colourful characters.
When Glen Tilbrook and Chris Difford first started the great UK band Squeeze, it was the mid-’70s, and the two of them were kids. Squeeze recorded their self-titled debut album with producer John Cale in 1978, but they were writing and recording songs long before then.
Tilbrook and Difford wrote the songs for “Trixies” before Squeeze even had a stable lineup. (Drummer Gilson Lavis passed away last week at the age of 74; he joined up in 1975.) In a press release, Difford says, “We fully committed ourselves to songwriting but this was three or four years before we even got to make our first record. Long story short, these were songs that we just didn’t have enough musical experience to record properly.”
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