"all these lies fill up in me / someone known that I cannot see /
The persistent artful darkness, the rattling gothic postpunk iterations of "Burn In Heaven" by Toronto cold wave group TRAITRS, and the first sonic glimpse of the band’s highly anticipated new album Possessor (dropping early in 2026), is exquisite in it's glacial melancholia and tells of iconic eras from before. A psychic collision of gothic darkwave, proto goth, postpunk, like an amalgam of Christian Death, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, it feels so perfectly rendered as to feel like found footage for another adjacent dimension. The duo who formed in mid 2015 have steadily built up a dedicated following. Sean-Patrick Nolan handles synthesizers, programming, sequencing while Shawn Tucker offers sonically rich guitar shapes and a killer vocal countenance that fits their darkly romantic spiraling atmospheres perfectly. I love his voice that have hints of Ian Curtis, Dave Gahan, Rozz Williams, all at once.
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):
[In the decade since their debut record to now, the Toronto-based TRAITRS went from bedroom artists selling cassette tapes on a small boutique record label to accumulating millions of streams worldwide and performing hundreds of shows on massive stages across multiple continents. With their much-anticipated new album Possessor, produced by long-time collaborator Josh Korody (The Beaches, The Dirty Nil, Japandroids, Tanya Taqaq, F*cked Up) and mastered by Matt Colton (The Cure, Depeche Mode, Fontaines D.C., Wet Leg, Dua Lipa, Blur etc), TRAITRS continue to develop their melancholic sound and imagery with the emotional follow up to 2021’s critically acclaimed LP Horses in the Abattoir.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://soundcloud.com/traitrs
https://www.youtube.com/@TraitrsOfficial
https://traitrs.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/traitrsofficial/
https://www.tiktok.com/@traitrs
https://www.facebook.com/traitrs/
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/traitrs/1118704716
With their cinematic blend of horror-based imagery, anthemic choruses, motorik drum loops, atmospheric synths and angular guitars, Canadian cold wave duo TRAITRS stare unflinchingly at our dystopian present while paying homage to artists from the post-punk past. In the decade since their debut record to now, the Toronto-based TRAITRS went from bedroom artists selling cassette tapes on a small boutique record label to accumulating millions of streams worldwide and performing hundreds of shows on massive stages across multiple continents. With their much-anticipated new album Possessor, produced by long-time collaborator Josh Korody (The Beaches, The Dirty Nil, Japandroids, Tanya Taqaq, F*cked Up) and mastered by Matt Colton (The Cure, Depeche Mode, Fontaines D.C., Wet Leg, Dua Lipa, Blur etc), TRAITRS continue to develop their melancholic sound and imagery with the emotional follow up to 2021’s critically acclaimed LP Horses in the Abattoir.
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