Trust the Mask have made a huge impression on the music industry already. With a handful of successful singles under their belt, the band have managed to impress fans and tastemakers alike. Speaking about the medium of connection within their music, multi-instrumentalist and one half of Trust the Mask Elisa Dal Bianco shares “Every human being wants to be accepted and loved, and as a result everyone tries to mask themselves in social contexts – in their jobs and at school and everywhere,” Singer Vittoria Cavedon continues: “It’s only when we’re on stage doing music that we feel completely free. The mask is something that everyone has, but if you take it away then you can really be yourself. The music is the moment when we’re without the mask, and with us, people can feel that freedom too.”
Their latest offering comes in the form of new album “Idiom.” Merging many different musical inspirations and genres together, their immersive sound can be heard in abundance on their new album. From the dynamic “Juniper” to the emotionally-penned “Unsaid,” the album will be sure to pick you up and take you on a journey as Trust the Mask blend infectious with cinematic.
Speaking about the album, they say: “Imagine you are at a party with your partner. Your relationship has been bad for a while. You are enjoying the garden, the scent and colors of the junipers when you see your partner flirting with someone other than you. Not so much anger, but bitterness and disappointment that take over.
Juniper is an awareness, a journey into the thoughts of those who have realized that their love story has been based from the beginning on false and weak foundations. It is a tormented song, one of the first track written together, the one to which the most changes have been made over time until it took its definitive form only during the artistic residence at Bronson Recording.
Similar to a sarcastic litany, the phrase “it’s a matter of fact” is repeated at the beginning of the piece, and then resumed in ever lower tones at the end, to take the listener into a darker environment.
From Juniper comes the song “It’s a matter of fact”, which is nothing but a reiteration of the phrase from which it takes its title, a dark version accompanied by a drone in C and ethereal vocals.
The chorus is nostalgic, as if the only good thing left is the memory of the early periods of infatuation, then slowly transforming into a contradictory story like the oxymoron of water lilies in a salt lake.
During the residency many of the sounds present in Juniper were produced, in particular the bass, recorded with Andrea Cola’s Korg MS 10, with warm and deep sounds. The major work was done on the chorus, where numerous layers of synths and four levels of vocal harmonies were recorded, with an explosion of power, anger and nostalgia. In the verses and in the finale, representing this sense of melancholy, the Chinese Hulusi flute played by Giuseppe Dal Bianco accompanies the voice.”
Intense, unconventional and entirely otherworldly “Idiom” is set to invigorate the senses and spark the imagination on an astral level. Layered with experimentation and concise, creative chaos, Trust the Mask epitomize the allure of the alien and the avant-garde with perfect precision. We could not be more excited to follow their career.
