By Absence Of The Sun Triggerfinger

• 1 Game 05:02
• 2 Perfect Match 03:10
• 3 By Absence Of The Sun 03:59
• 4 Big Hole 04:16
• 5 Off The Rack 03:32
• 6 Black Panic 05:50
• 7 There Isn't Time 03:05
• 8 And There She Was, Lying In Wait 04:29
• 9 Splendor In The Grass 04:04
• 10 Halfway There 03:52
• 11 Trail Of Love 04:32
• 12 Master Of All Fears 03:20
• Total Runtime 49:11

Info for By Absence Of The Sun

Never change a winning team. It was obvious that Triggerfinger would travel to Los Angeles again for two months for the follow-up to 'All this Dancin' Around' (2010) to check into their beloved Hollywood Downtowner Motel and once again to record with producer Greg Gordon, by now more or less the 'fourth Triggerfinger member'. One difference: the scene of the crime was not the Sound City Studio as last time (the 'Nevermind' studio has since been closed down) but the equally legendary Sunset Sound studio on Sunset Boulevard (Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, etc.).

Songs, sexiness, seventies, blues, glam, swaying hips, handclaps, coarse-grained noise and grooves that mercilessly aim for the diaphragm: 'By Absence of the Sun' is an album that once again raises the biggest Belgian rock group of the moment to a higher level. The album is the urgent result of months in which Ruben Block, Monsieur Paul and Mario Goossens experienced unprecedented climaxes, but were also confronted with all kinds of downsides. Ruben Block: 'We had trucks full of good vibes over us: did crazy festivals. Stadiums in Germany. But at the same time, intense things happened in my family home, loved ones got sick. What should I do with all that contradiction? I often consulted Greg Gordon: the fact that the album became one energetic whole is to his credit. Because there was still a melancholic album in me.'

Shamelessly sexy jukebox songs like 'Perfect Match' and 'Black Panic' slalom around doubtful, but always hopeful numbers like 'Splendor in the Grass', 'Halfway There', 'Trail of Love' and the title song. The three agree about the music on 'By Absence of the Sun'. Ruben Block feels a lot of ZZ Top in his riffs, Mario Goossens thinks the atmosphere of the record is very Roxy Music, Monsieur Paul hears echoes of the tongue-in-cheek chic of Robert Palmer. All gentlemen in suits, no coincidence. Monsieur Paul: 'Triggerfinger is: opening a van full of amplifiers and cables and instruments, with a row of suits in between. Suits, but with big sweat stains.' A sweaty suit, it is the ultimate contradiction that 'By Absence of the Sun' captures.

Triggerfinger

Triggerfinger
The Antwerp, Belgium based trio (Ruben Block, vocals & guitar; Paul Van Bruystegem, bass; Mario Goossens, drums) have built a solid reputation across Europe, the US and Canada as one of the hardest-driving and sharpest dressing bands around. With their self-titled debut album (2004), What Grabs Ya (2008), All This Dancing Around (2010) and By Absence of the Sun (2014) they’ve become a mainstay on the rock scene (the last two going platinum and gold, respectively). Their impromptu cover of the Lykke Li song I Follow Rivers became a major hit across Europe in 2012, and they were invited to open for The Rolling Stones in 2013 and 2014.

After four studio albums and the massive touring that came with it, it was time for a change. While writing COLOSSUS Triggerfinger wanted to add a few new flavors to the mix.

The band set off on a 40 date tour across 15 European countries with a first gig on Oct. 7 at King Tut’s in Glasgow, and stops in Paris, London, Berlin, Warzaw, Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava, Prague, Copenhagen,Oslo, Amsterdam, Brussels and Luxembourg.

This album contains no booklet.