The second album by Trips and Falls has already been described by The Skinny thus: “superb debut He Was Such a Quiet Boy was woefully underappreciated, and People Have to Be Told manages to better it”.

Personally, due to the internal machinations of the record industry *cough cough*, I have been sitting on this album for over a year now, and I would agree with The Skinny; it’s fucking brilliant.  It may not be quite as strange as their debut, but there is something more grounded and complete about it if you ask me.

It’s a little like Jonnie Common in spirit, I think, although the sound is totally different: no matter how odd some of the individual components might be, the music still emerges as pure pop.  Slightly creepy, unsettling pop, in this case, but pop nevertheless.  And to kick off three weeks of fevered anticipation* until the album is actually released we are giving away a taster in the form of a free download of the awesome Marginally More Than Mildly Annoying.  Enjoy, share, pass it round your friends and all the other things the internet is supposed to do to actually help music in the age of social media!

Trips and Falls – Marginally More Than Mildly Annoying by Song, by Toad

Oh, and if you want a direct download link for whatever reason, here it is. As I said, please feel free to share this as far and wide as you want to.

*Yes, yes, I know, but piss off, I am trying to create a sense of occasion here!