Truly - Fast Stories...

Fast Stories...From Kid Coma, the first full length record by Truly, is a collection of epic compositions, loosely forming a story, written and recorded over the past four years, that echo the band's Pacific Northwest surroundings -- the turbulent slate black ocean, soft rains from leaden grey skies, wet dark forests that climb the Cascades, and the omnipresent smell of slaughter-house blood.

It's hard to keep secret a band whose membership includes Soundgarden co-founder/bassist Hiro Yamamoto, Screaming Trees ex-drummer Mark Pickerel and guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Robert Roth from the Storybook Krooks. "All three of us were probably the loosest element in any of the bands we were in," Robert says, "and now we're all in one band."

Truly has attracted the attention of some of the music industry's most influential entities, without so much as an extensive tour. Their first show was in Seattle with The Jesus Lizard in October 1990. Sub Pop released the Heart and Lungs EP in 1991 and the Leslie's Coughing Up Blood EP in 1993, during the height of grunge fever. They were notable for sounding nothing like anything else on the label, before or since.

Fast Stories...From Kid Coma is a vast 72 minute record mixing up the depth and dimension of Pink Floyd, the punk sensibilities of the Wipers, Gun Club pop, the Beach Boys coastal pathos, the keyboard stylings of The Doors, and the luxuriousness of My Bloody Valentine.

Roth spins a complex aural web of distorted, effected and uniquely tuned guitars, with vocal tracks and signature keyboards, on top of Yamamoto's undulating, winding bass lines and Pickerel's consummate drums. Layers from an archaic Wurlitzer, and a vintage Mellotron (a rare keyboard that plays interchangeable loops of quarter inch tape), instill these songs with a deep resonance and watery darkness. "I like the sound of old equipment that sounds as if it's about to break," Robert admits.

Produced by Adam Kaspar, John Agnello and Robert Roth, Fast Stories...from Kid Coma has the vastness of a drug induced early seventies rock album and the aggression of a nineties punk rock record, steeped in the essence of the Northwest. The album will be released on June 6, through Revolution/Capitol.

Copyright © 1995 EMI .All rights reserved.

(EMI, June 20 1995)

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