Trash Kit
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Trash Kit
| image = Trash Kit at Bent Fest 2015, Power Lunches, Dalston.jpg
| landscape = yes
| caption = Trash Kit at Power Lunches in 2015
| alias =
| origin = London, England
| genre = Post-punk, indie rock, experimental rock,
| years_active = {{start date|2008}}–present
| label = Upset The Rhythm
| associated_acts = {{hlist|Sacred Paws|Shopping|Electrelane|Golden Grrrls|Bamboo|Halo Halo|Bas Jan}}
| website =
| current_members = Ray Aggs
Rachel Horwood
Gill Partington
| past_members = Ros Murray
}}
Trash Kit is a British post-punk trio formed in 2008 in London. Its members are Ray Aggs (guitar and vocals), Gill Partington (bass guitar), and Rachel Horwood (drums and vocals).{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19995-trash-kit-confidence/|title=Trash Kit: Confidence|date=2 December 2014|first=Paul|last=Thompson|publisher=Pitchfork|accessdate=27 February 2018}}
Original bassist Ros Murray was previously of the band Electrelane. Ray Aggs also plays in Sacred Paws and Shopping, and Rachel Horwood in Bamboo and Bas Jan (the latter also featuring Serafina Steer). Gill Partington and Rachel Horwood also played together in Halo Halo.
They have been compared to UK punk and post punk acts like The Slits, the Raincoats, and the Au Pairs, as well as noting the West African highlife influence on Aggs' guitar lines. Trash Kit themselves listed early influences as Y Pants, Ikue Mori of DNA, and Marnie Stern.{{cite web|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/tlobf-interview-trash-kit-31050|title=TLOBF Interview // Trash Kit|date=24 June 2010|first=Matthew|last=Britton|publisher=The Line of Best Fit|accessdate=28 February 2018}}
History
Ray Aggs and Rachel Horwood met and became friends at university and had been in a couple of bands together prior to forming Trash Kit, inspired by post punk, African percussion, and street performers who drum on trash cans.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/trash-kit-mn0002425208/biography|title=Trash Kit Biography|first=Heather|last=Phares|website=Allmusic}} They met Ros Murray at the Here shop in Bristol.
Upset The Rhythm asked them to record for their label immediately after seeing them play for the first time at the 'Yes Way' festival UTR had put on.{{cite web|url=http://www.maximumrocknroll.com/blast-from-the-past-trash-kit/|title=Blast From The Past: Trash Kit|last=Stix|first=Mr.|website=Maximumrocknroll|date=3 August 2015|accessdate=16 April 2018}} They released a 7" single, and their first album for the label - entitled Trash Kit - both in 2010.
After their debut release the band's members spent time playing with other bands. Aggs with Golden Grrrls, Sacred Paws, and Shopping. Horwood with Bamboo and Halo Halo.
Their second album Confidence was released in 2014 again to critical acclaim. It featured the addition of Murray's former Electrelane bandmate Verity Susman playing free jazz-inspired saxophone.
In May 2017, Thurston Moore highlighted them as a band one should know about in an article on the NME's website.{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/sonic-youth-thurston-moore-bands-2059126|title=Thurston Moore picks five underrated bands you should know about|last=Flood|first=Alex|website=NME|date=5 May 2017|accessdate=16 April 2018}}
Horwood's Halo Halo bandmate Gill Partington took over bass duties from Murray, and in May 2019 they announced their first album in 5 years, Horizon, would be released 5 July that year.
Discography
=Albums=
- Trash Kit - Upset The Rhythm, 12" LP, CD, MP3 (2010){{cite web|url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15408/reviews/4140025|title=Trash Kit Trash Kit Label: Upset The Rhythm|date=17 May 2010|first=Dom|last=Gourlay|publisher=Drowned In Sound|accessdate=28 February 2018|archive-date=28 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228223514/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15408/reviews/4140025|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14284-trash-kit/|title=Trash Kit: Trash Kit|date=2 June 2010|first=Mike|last=Powell|publisher=Pitchfork|accessdate=28 February 2018}}
- Confidence - Upset The Rhythm, 12" LP, CD, MP3 (2014){{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1976369-Trash-Kit|title=Discogs Trash Kit|website=Discogs }}{{cite web|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/trash-kit-confidence|title=Trash Kit - Confidence|first=Thomas|last=Ingham|publisher=The Line of Best Fit|accessdate=27 February 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/18540/reviews/4148506|title=Trash Kit Confidence Label: Upset The Rhythm|date=26 November 2014|first=Tom|last=Fenwick|publisher=Drowned In Sound|accessdate=27 February 2018|archive-date=28 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228041515/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/18540/reviews/4148506|url-status=dead}}
- Horizon - Upset The Rhythm, 12" LP, CD, MP3 (2019){{cite web|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/trash-kit-announce-first-album-in-five-years-with-lead-single-horizon|title=Trash Kit announce first album in five years with lead single "Horizon"|date=16 May 2019|first=Cerys|last=Kenneally|publisher=Line of Best Fit|accessdate=20 June 2019}}
=Singles=
- Teenagers / How Do You Do? - Upset The Rhythm, 7" single, MP3 (2010)
=Split releases=
- Split with Woolf - Mïlk Records, 7" single, MP3 (2010)