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Clandestine record label, The Trilogy Tapes, tear up the NTS studios once a month, ripping through the grittiest and muddiest tracks. No words on this one, just tunes.

Frank Smith

Frank Smith

Frank Smith has been played on NTS in shows including Sounds Of The Dawn, featured first on 14 November 2015. Songs played include The Pyramid.

"Frank Smith have a sound that is as vast as America – for, like the country they come from, they reconcile countless would-be opposites as songs from the back porch country are driven straight into the noise of the city, simple folk tunes are given the most intricately complex arrangements, and the freedom of the music is constantly pulled back the authority of the beat. All of this is masked by American deadpan at its finest in lyrics that are too simple to be simple: if you want to move down the street, you have to move your feet; bait in the belly and hook in the mouth; where’d you get those black and blue eyes?

If there’s a mystique in their simplicity, it’s only because beauty is the key trait in both; the same could be said about America’s music – and its landscape – at its finest." - www.franksmithmusic.com

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Frank Smith

Frank Smith has been played on NTS in shows including Sounds Of The Dawn, featured first on 14 November 2015. Songs played include The Pyramid.

"Frank Smith have a sound that is as vast as America – for, like the country they come from, they reconcile countless would-be opposites as songs from the back porch country are driven straight into the noise of the city, simple folk tunes are given the most intricately complex arrangements, and the freedom of the music is constantly pulled back the authority of the beat. All of this is masked by American deadpan at its finest in lyrics that are too simple to be simple: if you want to move down the street, you have to move your feet; bait in the belly and hook in the mouth; where’d you get those black and blue eyes?

If there’s a mystique in their simplicity, it’s only because beauty is the key trait in both; the same could be said about America’s music – and its landscape – at its finest." - www.franksmithmusic.com

Original source: Last.fm

Tracks featured on

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The Pyramid
Jon Shore, Frank Smith
Light Unlimited1982