Truth Club's sophomore effort 'Running From the Chase' is ambitious and melodic despite the darkness in its songwriting. Read our review.
2023 has been a banner year for North Carolina bands. Though the calendar nears its end, the last six months have seen the continued success of Indigo De Souza and the coronation of Wednesday. It’s also seen the emergence of Fust and Sluice, whose albums, respectively, have been under-the-radar favorites. Each of these bands, no matter how different they may be at first glance, carry within their music a distinct, enveloping warmth, often brought about by washes of pedal steel or slide guitar.
The Raleigh band stands out amidst this broader scene, making a kind of claustrophobic rock that’s more closely aligned with bands like Ovlov, Grass is Green or Pile. The latter is especially top of mind when listening to Truth Club, as frontman Travis Harrington’s rich vocals are immediately reminiscent of Rick Macguire’s distinctive howl. Their 2019 debut,, helped establish the band’s sound and style, flitting between passages either dense or skeletal, switching at a moment’s notice.
Lead single “Blue Eternal” sees them pushing further into the murky dread at the heart of their sound. As though taking on the POV of a poor soul caught in a whirlpool, Harrington sings “held in a wave of some vibration / a trace of our trial / stuck in its cycle”—the tense, driving guitars a riptide of their own. That trapped feeling extends into songs like “Exit Cycle,” where calming guitar strums undergird the description of a wasted day framed as “two dozen hours, deposed.
The songs melding together isn’t always to the album’s detriment, though. The run from “Dancing Around My Tongue” to the title track “Running From the Chase” deepen the depressive beauty of the album’s latter half. With guitar tones edging into shoegaze territory, this pair of songs separated by the brief instrumental passage “the chase,” ranks among the band’s finest moments. The former lives in an anxious state, Harrington singing about wanting to get the words he says as right as he can.
On one level, there is a silver lining to all of Truth Club’s toiling music. Harrington wrote these songs during a particularly aggressive battle with bipolar disorder, and tried to capture his feelings within them. He describes it as though he’s placed these feelings “in a jar” to observe down the line. That they exist means he’s been able to sublimate them down into something new, something useful to himself and to us.
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