Shaw's Trailer Park - Shaw's Trailer Park (2023)

Shaw`s Trailer Park, are a garage punk / psyche rock / alternative country / Paisley Underground-inspired band from Brighton, who took their name from the trailer park that singer/guitarist/songwriter Tim Sanpher grew up on. They release their self-titled debut album this month.

The album opens with `Don’t Do That` a blistering blend of churning garage punk and alternative country with a brief guitar solo shared midway through. There`s a wonderful psychedelic shimmer to the laid back `Crash Landing` where the song`s title is delightfully shared in an almost stoned haze. The number itself has a pleasantly retro incense and peppermints West Coast, tapped tambourine vibe about it.

`Sun Device` has an echoey garage blues texture and at times inched toward the Rolling Stones `2000 Light Years From Home`. The sporadic sax tones added a further dimension to this fairly mesmerising track. There`s a rolling bluesy mood about `Rainbow Man` where the backing vocals really adds some depth.

`She’s Alright` is a much more straight up juddering bluesy tinged rock offering while `Memory` has a kind of swagger and confidence about it with a delicious recurring guitar riff and complex solos on route, which put me in mind of the bluster of The Animals `We Gotta Get Out Of This Place`.

`Restraint` has a superb intricacy almost complexity about it and was a number that really drew me into its levels and layers, although it was one of the longer compositions on the album it didn`t feel like it. This release closes out with `Snakegirl` which is a growling, rumbling kind of slow burn jam with fuzzy guitar tones, a regular rhythmic drum beat, and weary sounding vocals splayed atop. This submission seems to briefly burst into life about ninety seconds before fading out.

Simon Smith (guitar), Mark Wilson (bass), Donna Butler (backing vocals, percussion, and sax) and Andy Fraser (drums) are the other members who came together with Tim Sanpher to form Shaw`s Trailer Park and did so much to really bring this record to fruition.

Shaw`s Trailer Park musically is a classic blend of retro tinged garage punk come psyche rock that will enter your very being and have you humming tracks like `Crash Landing` for the rest of the week, I can assure you.