Trust Electricity

The Upsidedown | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 11, 2006)
• Original Release Date: August 10, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Reverb Records
• ASIN: B0002KQNX6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,885 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #49 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Rock

Editorial Reviews

Review

The Upsidedown plays dirty, glammed-up, drugged-down guitar rock with a dark heart... --The Willamette Week

BAND TO WATCH - The acid smeared daydream lasts only 56 minutes, but the hangover rings in your head for days. --Magnet Magazine

Dreamy and decadent in all the right places. --The Boston Globe

Product Description

The Portland Oregon music scene is alive and well. Very alive, very well! The Shins, Sleater Kinney, Helio Sequence, Decemberists, Sleater Kinney, The Dandy Warhols, The High Violets, The Thermals and Steven Malkumus. And now joining them is THE UPSIDEDOWN who just released their debut album TRUST ELECTRICITY on Reverb Records. The band had help in the studio from Dandy Warhol and Elliott Smith collaborator Tony Lash (ex-Heatmiser member) and it sounds absolutely brilliant. The band formed out of the ashes of seminal Portland shoegazer band The Bella Low and have been winning fans and influencing people ever since. They just finished up a full-on national tour and radio & press were faithful:

The Willamette Week described The Upsidedown as: "dirty, glammed-up, drugged-down guitar rock with a dark heart. Their brand of ambient rock carries forth in a grand tradition: carefully constructed Dandies drone, pop hooks and devil-may-care-decadence." The Willamette Week know how to call it. KPSU described the band as "The best band that will come out of Portland in 2004!"

With thumping, psychedelic, sexy and danceable beat driven songs like "Wake Up Drive Thru," "Blackeye Liner" and the Portland/George W. Bush riots inspired track "Pepper Spray," The Upsidedown are on a mission to bring some big bad dirty fun back into the world of independent music. They also successfully navigate territory formerly travelled by Love and Rockets and Echo & the Bunnymen, but with their own style, sound and attitude. And their cover version of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" is like no other. The band close off the album with their version, which is dripping in fuzz, swagger and sex. Prepare yourself to embrace The Upsidedown sound, which just recently hit shelves in North America.

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Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Psychocandy Revisited, April 7, 2005

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Ephormilio (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trust Electricity (Audio CD)

If you've spent a lot of time with Galaxie 500, Jesus & the Mary Chain, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine, etc.-- you have very good taste. And so do the Upsidedown. I feel like I should control my enthusiasm for this record because it's not taking me anywhere new. But visiting familiar musical landscapes with people who can finesse the experience can be quite satisfying. This is a very nicely produced and executed psycho-pop garage trip. It's like a love letter to heroin art rock. Most fans of the genre will fall prey. Lush, trippy, catchy and pretty cool.

5.0 out of 5 stars the right way up, January 21, 2009

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Michael Farr "A Brit in PA" (Phoenixville, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trust Electricity (Audio CD)

This is simple, recent sign up by the Dandy Warhols, The Upsidedown have out-dandied the Dandy's.....