TOP Music #8: Trusty sings...

Trusty, originally from Little Rock, AR, was the first (and I believe still the only) band without home-grown DC/MD/VA roots to have joined the Dischord Records roster. Perhaps the Clinton presidency was an underlying factor. In any case, they were a great live band and I saw them a bunch of times in DC and Baltimore. They belong in the better-than-average class of early 90's pop-punk before that sound exploded into the mainstream and went from catchy to kitschy in 182 blinks. This 7" was released on DeSoto Records (run by Kim of Jawbox) in '92 and if I could time-warp to that year as an MRR reviewer, I would say:

Side A is a great slab of driving emo-popcore (like Samiam riding the wohl whip with a shout-out to Lance Hahn of J Church) while the flip slows down a wee bit to deliver the goods more straight-forward "punk" style but just as bouncy. I bet these guys really dig Jawbreaker's "Unfun" LP.

"Kathy's Keen" b/w "No One"
Inlay w/lyrics