TRAITRS – HORSES IN THE ABBATTOIR / THE SICK, THE TIRED AND THE ILL CD

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In Jewel-Case, with Booklet. Different artwork to the European edition, which is now officially deleted. We are happy to be allowed to offer you this special US-Edition of TRAITRS so far latest album, that also contains all 5 EXCLUSIVE Tracks, that were included on the very limited, and immediately sold out mini-album ‘The Sick…’,

With a cinematic blend of post-punk, goth, alternative and post-rock, emotive melodies, propulsive rhythms, angular guitars, and dark cinematic electronics, Toronto's TRAITRs has become one of the dark music scene's fastest rising artists. Their theird album "Horses in the Abattoir" is a turbulent, atmospheric, and enthralling album.

Sean-Patrick Nolan, one half of TRAITRS, described the album to post-punk.com as follows:

"To me this whole record is about passing time and aging; the frailty and impermanence of existence. How everything we know and love exists briefly before disappearing into nothing. This record covers a wideemotional spectrum from the beautiful to the horrific, overwhelming strength to heartbreaking vulnerability..."

Shawn Tucker, the other half of the band said: "The theme of the record pulls heavily from the title: taking something innocent and beautiful and ending its life for no reason. In retrospect, 'Horses' captures the darkest period of our entire lives and that hurt bleeds out all over the record. I can definitely say we are still the same band, but certainly not the same inside ourselves. Somehow 'Horses' became its own beast and solidified its own place in the world. At times it seemed like all we had left was 'Horses' and the record felt much stronger and self-contained than us. We stepped out of ourselves for a while, imploding, almost not finding our way back. We just were not that well to be completely honest. It was a destructive time and I didn't even realize what was happening until the storm had finally passed. Despite all this, we had written 17 songs, over a hundred fragments and were excited to start a new phase of our career with Freakwave Records. When I hear this record, it pulls things out of me that you might not want to feel or confront, but that's what making art should be about. This record's filled with anger, sadness, beauty, hurt, love, loss and beyond. I'm very proud of this record. It's our best work to date, hands down, our post-depression record."

Note: There was also a 2LP-Edition of this album on Metropolis. It is now deleted, but there will be a 1LP-Version re-release this summer!

TRACKS: 01 Sea Howl 02 Mouth Poisons 03 Prostitution 04 Magdalene 05 Oh, Ballerina 06 TV Hours 07 All living Hearts betrayed 08 From this old Mirror 09 Ghost and the Storm 10 Last Winter 11 The Way through a Bird's Love Bonus-Tracks: 12 Sweet Home 13 In Paintings, I know the killing Place 14 Burn to the Sun 15 Eat the Glass of a dying Heart 16 The darkling Thrush