The slightly scary front cover of Truths debut album ‘Puppets’ looks like that of a thrash metal band from the 80’s, something of Slayer meets an Anthrax album cover. And the girl on the cover peeking through the cracks in the wall might well look terrified , as the puppets which Truth conjure up in their music forms and transforms and mutates at a speedy and at terrifying rate.
‘Burglar’ drags us into bleeps, bloops, banging and clanging things going bump in the night on some massive metallic spaceship lurking on the far reaches of the universe, with the sound of space guns going off in the distance too. It’s just as bloody and scary as thrash or death metal but its a lot more interesting than that, not too mention making your hair on the back of your neck stand on end. ‘Dead Silence’ carries on in this eerie, echoed way, and the space gun bleeps get more expansive and err deadly, on this track Truth, who are a trio – made up of Andre Fernandez, Tristan Roake, and Julian Van Uden, from New Zealand sound like Prodigy via Massive Attack updated for the 2010 dubstep era.
It seems that Truth dabble in the dubstep area quite a bit none more so than on the slow build and sparse the sizzling beats of the deep dub-pop of ‘Don’t Explain’, but throughout ‘Puppets’, it seems they’ve used the atmosphere of dubstep and filled it with sinister and intriguing sounds.
‘Juno’, particularly, is like a million church organs falling down Mount Everest over and over, before the space guns blast us into distorted space again, while a massive drilling sound really fucks with our brains, and is as disorientating as the ‘Inception’ movie – particularly the bit where the city folds in on itself. The title track is if anything even more disorientating, but the spaced out beats keep it more than intriguing. Then there’s an element of Rae and Christian via the conceptual drum ‘n’ bass of Goldie, about the soul strings and beats of ‘Master’s Of The Stars.’
Its safe to say that Truth’s album ‘Puppets’ isn’t to be used for the coffee table and chilling, which a few of these dubstep acts seem to veer towards. However there are times that Truth does seem to veer to close to the stadium bluster of Pendulum, but they manage to rein it in. They can even give Magnetic Man a run for their money in the trippy pop stakes of the aforementioned ‘Don’t Explain’ and ‘Masters Of The Stars’, and the deep soul of ‘Legion.’
Then their masterpiece is ‘Under Current’ as the big bass booms with shots of springy synths and marching keyboard stabs which sound like an ammunition of submerged sub-machine guns firing of from one side of the speaker to the other. The booming bass seems to appear a lot throughout the album. Then there’s the alien terrain of ‘Terror Planet VIP’ does what it says on the tin.
It seems that that there’s still life in the dubstep scene yet. And with Truth seemingly jumping into the deeper, bass end of the scale, they’re definitely worth getting excited about. Just try not to be too scared about it.
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