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Horizon UPSET THE RHYTHM

ALBUM OF THE MONTH 8/10

The “clean, glittery melodies” of South African pop inform the post-punk trio’s expansive third. By Jon Dale

EOR a good decade now, London trio Trash Kit have been mining a very particular, streamlined sound – chipped, full of nervous, jangling energy, yet somehow symmetrical. Their first two records were packed with tightly interlocked songs, ticking and clock-wound, which sometimes came across, at first blush, as similar to The Raincoats, Y Pants or Pulsallama.

But comparisons to post-punk pioneers has always felt a little reductive, particularly when Rachel Aggs busts out one of her winding, circular guitar riffs, which sit closer