Triggers & Slips

What Do You Feed Your Darkness

Self-Released, 2022

9/10

Listen to What Do You Feed Your Darkness

The Salt Lake City country outfit Triggers & Slips return with an album that thematically surrounds loss, love and substance abuse, and their twangy, honky tonk ways certainly add much to the cautious spirit.

“Family Vs Business” starts the listen with plenty of raw melody, where poetic storytelling unfolds with much beauty in the country filled landscape, and “True Love” follows with a stirring intimacy that makes great use of aching pedal steel amid the rugged prettiness.

At the halfway point, “Going Nowhere” flows with a rural warmth, where the instrumentation builds into a lush climate, while “Done With Debbie” recruits harmonica and brushed percussion that’s quirky in all the right ways.

Deeper still, “Future Variations” is heavy on atmosphere in a surreal fashion that’s quite mesmerizing, and the title track exits the listen with graceful acoustic guitar and eloquent wordplay that emits an absorbing singer-songwriter appeal.

Perhaps their most mature effort to date, front man Morgan Snow sorts through his own personal demons across the 10 tracks, as Triggers & Slips again prove just why they’re one of the most interesting bands in the area of roots music that exists today.

Travels well with: Will Payne Harrison- Titan Tioga; Derek Hoke- Electric Mountain