Along with
Grimes
,
Crystal Castles
, and
Purity Ring
,
Robert Alfons
is also a unique figure on the Canadian
electropop
scene. His project
TR/ST
(formerly Trust), which he started four years ago, has enjoyed growing popularity among audiences.
With a lineup previously including Austra drummer
Maya Postepski
, the project representing a darker, more morose kind of electronica has made its way up on the ladder of success of indie music without major obstacles, from releases at Sacred Bones to gigs at SXSW. The second album of the one-man project called Joyland from 2014 features
darkwave
,
synthpop
and EDM, and shows a mature style and tough beats, hammering into the ground those who are most comfortable in the territory of Zola Jesus, Depeche Mode and rhythmic dance music.
According to NME,
Joyland
is “the sort of gloomy synthpop that'll make you want to smoke cigarettes, rim your eyes with kohl and dance jerkily in the dark basement of a Berlin warehouse”. So get your kohl out because the dark, sexual melodrama arrives on the
Dürer Kert
stage on February 5.
