Check out the press features coming in:

Indie London
Singles of The Week. “There are some moments that reminded me of classic INXS. Well worth checking out!” 3.5 out of 5

Sound Of Confusion
Following previous single ‘Calypso’, this is another suitably catchy guitar tune with shuffling drums and a plodding piano which suits it down to the ground.

This Is A Popscene
Good things come to those who wait – maybe… but I don’t want to wait for something that is this good. I want it now!

Counteract Magazine

Venture Magazine 5 out of 5

The Music Fix
Singles of The Week. ‘The Honey Drip’ is a great accompaniment to any sunny days we might see.

Culture Zine
the greatness is confirmed by the title – melodic honey slowly dripped over sonic template that combines to make a song you can listen to over and over and never get bored.

Gold Flake Paint

Counteract Magazine
Ultimate guide to new music in Birmingham

Don’t Need No Melody – New York

Here Comes The Flood – Holland
This band relies on harmonies and with two good singers, whose voices blend seamlessly, they can safely do so. A ray of sunshine of a rainy Spring day.

Squeaky Sneaker

In Forty

The Hearing Aid

RCKSTR – (Switzerland’s biggest music mag) – Page 23

The Subscription Club will feature 24 tracks in total and Track 1 entitled 1993 VW Polo Boulevard doesn’t disappoint.

Check out a 45 second preview below. Head over to the shop to find out more about what the subscription club has on offer!

The Honey Drip’s metronomic bassline and drumbeat allow the guitar and piano hooks to reign free throughout the song, while the band’s trademark melodies and harmonies drench the choruses. With a climactic outro laden with trumpets, saxophones, throbbing synths and heavy guitar hooks, The Honey Drip has become one of the standout songs from their live shows.

This morning saw New York’s Don’t Need No Melody be the first to review the track – http://dontneednomelody.com/2013/04/15/song-premiere-the-traps-the-honey-drip/

Full Subscribers or Subscripients as we like to call them will have exclusive access to the next 24 songs Tom Peel writes, as well as a Speech Fewapy Designed t-shirt, blogs, videos, video blogs, blogs about videos, video blogs about blogs about videos, pogs, they’ll be made to feel special with Birthday cards and positive thoughts that we shall think about them.

HOLD THE HEADLINES! – The Tom Peel VIP Cards are in now! and he has sent us a video to tell us all about them!

The first one which is live from this week is:

The Tom Peel Subscription Club
Its the future and you know it.

He writes the songs and you subscribe to the songs not unlike Readers Digest.
These Songs will be exclusively for subscribers and emailed directly to your ears. It won’t go on Spotify all you Spotify chumps. At the end of the project a hard copy will also get sent to your whole face if you’ve made a full subscription plus heaps of other goodies.

Check out the press features coming in:

Luxury Goods (LX-Goods) – Florida, USA
“buzzy and anthemic synth based rock, which definitely separates this from a mediocre song to a brilliant indie dancefloor number” – February 2013

Q Magazine – Singles of the Week
“The Trap’s latest single, the ebullient and bittersweet Calypso…. a rather sharper, more sophisticated take on Mystery Jets.

Indie Shuffle – San Francisco
“ It’s certainly got those hooky guitar lines made so famous by Phoenix, plus a touch of Theme Park’s buzzy and anthemic synth based rock, which definitely  separates this from a mediocre song to a brilliant indie dancefloor number..”

The Sound Of Confusion
“So the beats have a dancey feel and there’s a gentle background hum and subtle electronics cropping up here and there which safely lure it away from lad rock, just like its title character luring ships to the shore. There’s even the mild aftertaste of math-rock and as the song goes on it builds and becomes more diverse.”

Radio 2  Janice Long show – Play on 10.01.13

XFM –  John Kennedy X-Posure show – Play on 21.01.13
“This sounds rather good!” – John Kennedy

Radio Caroline TV
“Calypso is dynamic and beguiling and in a time when bedroom laptop knob twiddlers and earnest indie posers are everywhere we need the sound of a band having a blast. The Traps have created a cinematic and primary coloured world that is the self-assured sound of a band with a vision.”

This Is A Popscene
“If you can remain motionless whilst listening to this I’ll buy you a pint, ok?… ah I can see your head nodding… unlucky” – TRACK OF THE DAY – Jan 16th

Glasswerk

Altsounds

Inforty

Glasswerk (Stream)

Entertainment Focus

Hit The Floor

The single comes out for release on January 21st through Speech Fewapy Records.

Hand Clap Movement had this to say about the new video – http://handclapmovement.com/tagged/the-traps

The Traps have 2 shows coming up in support of the single release. Catch them at:

JAN 25th: BIRMINGHAM, Hare & Hounds

JAN 26th: LONDON, Sebright Arms, Bethnal Green

You can watch the video below:

G. Bird will be playing tracks from his new EP ‘Black Tableaux, on sale here – it’s a belter!

Check out ‘Animals’ taken from Black Tableaux here:

More info :

www.facebook.com/sunshinefrisbeelaserbeam

www.facebook.com/GregBirdFlamingoFlame

www.facebook.com/alexkingsingh

www.thisistmrw.co.uk

www.hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk