“Reminiscent of the wide-open ’70s Laurel Canyon sound…
Traster’s best album yet.” – Minneapolis City Pages. Hear “Choses Obscures”
now.
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Ryan Traster as photographed by Kimberly Traster
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Ryan Traster
| In The Press
“Catchy, classic folk-rock tunes.” — 89.3 The Current (Minnesota Public
Radio)
“Cuts straight to the chase, brushes cheeks with
brashness, and makes no apologies.” — City
Pages (Minneapolis)
“An extremely impressive slice of Americana.” — My Old Kentucky Blog
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Ryan Traster | Live
08/01/2019: Brooklyn, NY @ Gold Sounds (w/ Swampboots)
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The Big Takeover premieres Choses Obscures by Ryan Traster, calling the record a “lyrically
impressive and soncially mesmerizing album” in its accompanying record review.
Check out the full coverage here
and listen to Choses Obscures in full at the link below.
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Ryan
Traster
Choses
Obscures
(Slow Start Records)
Out Now
Full Album Stream:
Track Listing:
01. Old World Present Tense
02. New Again (STREAM | MP3)
03. How Dark It's Been
04. Lost in a Sound (STREAM | MP3)
05. Libra
07. Kansas
08. Busy Mind Lazy Mouth
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Ryan Traster
| About
The new album by Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Ryan Traster features that warm,
worn-in vibe of an album that’s been in your cool parents record collection
since you were a kid. Eventually, it gets passed down to you to take along into
“the real world” and is there when you need to be reminded of being a kid
again.
It’s that gem of a find in a milk crate of vinyl at
the local tag sale on a Sunday afternoon. The kind of album that becomes an
all-time favorite, only discovered there by the person who knows what they’re
looking for and has the time to dig for it.
Choses Obscures (the title translates from French as “obscure things,” and implies a
“dark energy”) is both of those things, and that implied darkness provides a
subtle mask that contrasts and deepens the sunny images above.
When Traster
throws curve balls with lyrics of places and times that don’t abide the most
famed of singer-songwriter eras (the kind that even the album’s cover art
evokes), things get real.
It comes as a jaw-dropping surprise to hear
Jesus and Mary Chain name-dropped on
“Endless Summer Blues” when Traster sings, “We were living in Echo
Park / I was smoking dope in the backyard / You were listening to all those Mary Chain records / We had the endless
summer blues.”
According to Traster,
the album’s cosmic-country, straight outta Laurel Canyon feel is heavily influenced
by Skip Spence, Bert Jansch, and Judee Sill,
all of whom passed before their time. That “beyond the grave” murkiness
pervades Traster’s lyrics in a
profound way, even down to that JAMC
reference.
Choses Obscures is “born from the subconscious in troubled times, both personally and
globally,” Traster explains.
Choses Obscures, the new full-length album by Ryan
Traster, is out now via Slow Start
Records. Ryan Traster is
available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Ryan
Traster | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
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