I have no idea how this ended up in my ears, but I've been painting my hands with a black bic pen ever since. What in the ******g world would I, Joel Frieders of the realm, be ******g smoking listening to a gothic trance album? 

Well, I'm ******g loving the ******g **** out of it actually. 

Synthetic and menacing, Trust take otherwise dainty sounds and splatter them with rust, static and then spurted through the liver in a drug-influenced catharsis. Imagine Matt Dillon in Over The Edge listening to trance instead of **** rock and he'd probably have Trust in his walkman. It's as addictingly progressive as the first few times I went through the debut album from Crystal Castles, but it's inside this darkened niche that I've found a new favorite. 

While TRST doesn't stray too far from the bright-made-brooding combination of sound, the European devil with the vocoder hasn't gotten old for me yet. 

During my first few listens of TRST, I kept assuming I was missing something. I mean, why is this dude walking with his voice when the music is ******g massively out of breath throughout the majority of the album? I don't think he even steps outside of a few notes until he gets to the chorus on Heaven, and even then, I think it's his casual approach to these huge ******g songs that makes Trust so endearing. 

If I'm dumb in this genre, which I am and am completely fine with being dumb in this genre, I keep seeing the movie Drive in my head, and realizing that TRST would've been a better soundtrack for ******g sure. 

If you're into the synth heavy Type O Negative of electronic music, TRST from Trust is ******g spot on in the ****-a-smile category. 

And Chrissy E is my favorite ******g track on the entire ******g album and I've already dragged it into my favorites from 2012.