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Montreal dream-funk (my genre name, stamped it, no take backs) trio Men I Trust turned out to be one of my key pandemic bands, having first seen them months before the world shut down and living through lockdown in the warm tones of Oncle Jazz. Their attempts to tour 2021’s Untourable Album became a bellwether […]
It feels like Men I Trust have been touring Untourable Album non-stop since it came out over three years ago – and why not? The stages they’re offered just keep getting bigger and though I saw them last at the very start of that run, there’s no reason to think they haven’t just gotten better […]
Montreal’s Men I Trust have followed up on last year’s Untourable Album with their first new track of 2022. Maybe a little late, considering how prolific the trio typically are, but they’ve been kind of busy soaking in the irony of taking Untourable Album on the road for much of this year; they’ve just set […]
I guess there’s just something about Men I Trust’s smooth, synthetic sounds that makes you want to close your eyes, drift away, and then obsessively reverse-engineer their creative process. How else to explain why there’s not one but two pieces online deconstructing their songs down to the synthesizer settings. Not that I’m complaining – I […]
If you thought that the couple of new singles Montreal’s Men I Trust rolled out over the past year were going to be a preview of their next album, well that’s not an unreasonable assumption as that’s how these things usually work. But Men I Trust don’t really do things the usual way, so neither […]
When COVID restrictions in their hometown of Montreal were eased somewhat last Summer, Men I Trust gathered a small film crew, set up their gear in one of their garages and recorded a live set of Oncle Jazz material. The video went up on the YouTubes in July and were compiled as the front half […]
