(2021) Sweet Trip - You Will Never Know Why


Review:
Sweet Trip‘s third album You Will Never Know Why (2009) still sounds new and unlike anything else. Laden with bossa, latin, electronic and shoegaze influences, male/female vocal interplay, immaculate acoustic guitars, pulsing bass lines, complex rhythms, odd time signatures, lush strings and imaginative sound effects, there’s a lot going on with the Sweet Trip sound; however, you couldn’t possibly tire of it. The songs are always so refreshing. Here’s an opportunity to unlearn ridged pop, rock, electronic, shoegaze genre orthodoxies. Sweet Trip uniquely hybridizes all in an aural jigsaw puzzle forming an empathetic message and futurist soundscape providing the listener with a new perspective and the ability to better cope with our brave new world. Sweet Trip’s second album, Velocity: Design: Comfort (2003), is widely recognized as an essential shoegaze/electronic hybrid landmark in both genres. You Will Never Know Why, is Sweet Trip exercising their vision with greater confidence, showing comfort with more traditional instrumentation and composition with complete song lyrics. Roberto Burgos and Valerie Reyes are Sweet Trip. Roby and Valerie both write the songs and lyrics. Both play guitars and keyboards. Both sing. Roby is the programmer, the sound architect. You Will Never Know Why was recorded at his home on computer.





Tracklist:
1. Conservation of Two [02:31]
2. Air Supply [04:33]
3. Forever [03:50]
4. Acting [06:57]
5. Milk [04:17]
6. Darkness [06:10]
7. To the Moon [04:01]
8. Song About a Sea [01:10]
9. Song About a Sun [01:36]
10. No Words to Be Found [02:39]
11. Pretending [04:57]
12. Misfortunes Are Cruel [04:08]
13. Your World is Eternally Complete [04:12]
14. Female Lover [03:51]
15. Silence [01:48]
16. Where the Sunrise Dies, So Does the Echo of Your Voice [05:23]
17. Things to Ponder While Falling [03:57]


Media Report:
Genre: dream-pop, shoegaze
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits