Personal Trainer - Still Willing (2024)

If you like pop music to keep you on your toes, Amsterdam’s Personal Trainer provide that service fulsomely on their superb second album. Essentially the project of Willem Smit (working with co-producer / collaborator Casper van der Lans) on record and a band live, Personal Trainer showed a facility for DIY indie-pop exuberance and experiment in sync with 2022’s debut, “Big Love Blanket”. Now signed to Bella Union, Willem returns re-energised with Still Willing, a multi-faceted album of shining contrasts and spry melodies, effusive arrangements and subliminal sounds, playful lyrics and self-reflection: in short, a pop album executed with dynamism, vim and charm.

1.01 - Personal Trainer - Upper Ferntree Gully (7:44)
1.02 - Personal Trainer - I Can Be Your Personal Trainer (2:58)
1.03 - Personal Trainer - Cyan (3:43)
1.04 - Personal Trainer - Round (2:43)
1.05 - Personal Trainer - New Bad Feeling (3:05)
1.06 - Personal Trainer - Intangible (2:59)
1.07 - Personal Trainer - Testing The Alarm (5:30)
1.08 - Personal Trainer - Still Willing (2:41)
1.09 - Personal Trainer - You Better Start Scrubbing (2:58)
1.10 - Personal Trainer - What Am I Supposed To Say About The People And Their Ways (4:42)