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As a youth you know you’ve managed to carve out some sort of individuality when someone describes your music as a ‘racket’. Worn as a badge of pride and distinction, these moments of cleavage are all but redundant as you grow older and rightfully so. Yet, Three Trapped Tigers make such bloody racket on Route One or Die you can’t but hope that someone somewhere will observe you listening to it and grimace with disgust, tut and slam the door shut. Descriptions for the aural commotion that TTT produce require an indulgence. So imagine if you [...]

• Three Trapped Tigers - Noise Trade

There’s some talk about how Three Trapped Tigers are the future of electronica. With reverberant, dull snare slaps, acid bass lines and sequenced music concrete hovering between bombastic drums and bass, these claims aren’t entirely unfounded. But in fact, Route One or Die presents the future of punk.  Don't let the word ‘punk’ undermine their talent, but a lot of their work points to a background in post-hardcore. It is as if they grew up on a diet of 2000s web culture, decorating their alt-rock music collection with forum recommendations that would never [...]

After three smashing untitled EPs, London three-piece Three Trapped Tigers finally get round to releasing their, in some circles anyway, long-awaited and much anticipated debut full length Route One Or Die . Led by classically influenced pianist Tom Rogerson there's a danger that this record could have paled into insignificance next to the release of Battles' forthcoming Gloss Drop (the band that you could best compare TTT to), but this is a record you'd be a fool to write off. Trying to explain the sound of Three Trapped Tigers to [...]

Electronica-rock is not a new concept. In fact, it's a trend increasingly smogged up with gimmickry and tired old pedestrians trying to coat their oh-so-bland and second hand rehashes with a lick of synthesiser. Three Trapped Tigers - Route One Or Die Such creative husks are to Three Trapped Tigers what fence painting is to the works of Francis Bacon. Their debut, Route One Or Die , is a stunning release that transcends the closest synopsis humanity has to [...]

Three Trapped Tigers, otherwise known as London trio Tom Rogerson, Matt Calvert and Adam Betts, are an instrumental math-rock outfit, with undertones of prog, heavy rock and a frenetic blueprint. Imagine Battles in a bad mood and you might get close to the one-two opening of ‘Cramm’ and ‘Noise Trade’. The former also happens to be the album’s highlight: rapid-fingered and scale-fiddling notes play off an aggressive rock beat embellished with a continual cascade of cymbals and percussion. It soon crashes into full-blown, distorted rock as the keyboards threaten to burn-out, buzzing and sliding all over the track. Consider any [...]

Ignore the confrontational album name, once you get stuck in you will realize that three trapped tigers are mere pussycats trying to win your affection