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The Triffids
Treeless Plain/ Beautiful Waste and Other Songs
both Domino
Article
written by Ged M
Apr 22, 2008.
From one of the most isolated metropolitan areas on earth (Perth, Western Australia), the Triffids were strongly influenced by the Velvet Underground, Dylan, Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen as well as whatever the NME was championing when it was delivered a month late to such remote parts. On their first full-length record, 1983’s Treeless Plain, they pay homage to their heroes (covering Dylan’s ‘I Am A Lonesome Hobo’) but also build their own dramatic storytelling sound. If you like fellow Domino act Sons And Daughters, listen to ‘Old Ghostrider’ and marvel at the S&D sound 20 years earlier! The album’s highlight is ‘Hell of a Summer’, its sense of over-stimulated minds and over-heated libidos anchored by such a stomping bass footprint it’s no surprise that Martyn Casey has been permanently employed by the Bad Seeds and Grinderman since the Triffids ended. It sounds great too; originally recorded and mixed on the cheap and in a rush, the tapes have been brilliantly remastered to sound like the band first envisioned the record. And in keeping with all the Domino releases, there are bonus features; here it’s an interview and live tracks from their first Australian radio session.
Quite rightly, Beautiful Waste and Other Songs is subtitled “mini-masterpieces 1983-85”. It collects various releases including the Raining Pleasure mini-album with the classic Velvets-pop of ‘Jesus Calling’, the Lawson Square Infirmary mini album that was alt.country before the term was even devised and the genius (no understatement) Peel session ‘Field of Glass EP’ from 1985 that has the apocalyptic title track and the drug-scarred ‘Monkey On My Back’. Complete with rare tracks and the unbeatable/ unmissable/ unreleased ‘Dear Miss Lonely Hearts’, it’s all proof that Domino continue to do the memory of Dave McComb proud.
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