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In 2005 Memphis black-wave synth punk band Lost Sounds called it quits after being kicked out of a house in Stuttgart in the middle of a long night. Four albums and numerous singles and outtakes releases were left over, and the brutal live show would never happen again. As Jay Reatard (½ of the Lost Sounds songwriting team with Alicja Trout) continued to grow his hopeful career on Matador Records, the other band members moved on down less-publicized roads.
Rich Crook, drummer of Lost Sounds, formed Lover! and Thing and toured with them as singer/guitar player. Alicja Trout toured with River City Tanlines, Black Sunday, Mouserocket, and released solo recordings as Alicja-pop. Meanwhile, time was healing the wounds that had caused the band to break up.
Sadly, though Jay’s career was on the rise, he died in January 2010.
So what was to become of the Lost Sounds music?
In 2015 Alicja, Rich, and original member John Garland brought back a set of tunes from the old Lost Sounds closet. They called themselves Sweet Knives, named after a song from the Lost Sounds 2004 In The Red “Future Touch” seven song EP. In January 2016 the group recorded a four song double 7” for Red Lounge Records, then released a full length in 2017 on Bigneck Records. A Sweet Knives live set is made up of new originals and some of the old Lost Sounds numbers.
You won’t hear the Beale Street blues or the Elvis swoon in a Sweet Knives. Sweet Knives blends synths with post-punk garage sound that seems most unlikely to come out of The Home of the Blues.
Sweet Knives will be touring across the US this June.
Band Members:
Alicja Trout* - guitar, synths, songwriter/vocals
Rich Crook* - Drums
John Garland *- guitar
Eli Steel - bass
Lori McStay - synths
*originally members of Lost Sounds
Band Members:
Alicja Trout* - guitar, synths, songwriter/vocals
Rich Crook* - Drums
John Garland *- guitar
Eli Steel - bass
Lori McStay - synths
*originally members of Lost Sounds
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