Scottish indie greats Trashcan Sinatras are back with their first new music in nearly four years and “The Bitter End” is as sweet as the rest of their catalogue.
The veteran Ayrshire jangler pop release an instant classic single… oh yes it is! Just over three minutes of burbling, pumping later period energy, this track finds Frank Reader and his compadres older, maybe a bit more frayed at the edges (but then they always were, in a good way…) singing of regrets but tinged with hope as well. And is it true that this is their first new music release since 2016? And “more new music” is promised…
A timeless guitar chug/riff starts things off, more instrumentation is added and the vocal kicks in – a timeless melody redolent of TFC, The LAs but most of all The Trashcans themselves – “In memory of a friend, I’ll meet you again…”. A great roaring guitar solo, a touch of strings, Christ what else could anyone possibly want for a pure pop orgasm…? Well?
It is another triumph from one of Scotland, and the world’s, most underappreciated bands – as ever there is adversity but out of it come such beautiful melodies, harmonies…
The Fat Angel Sings 