Dark, moody and distorted, Murrieta, CA band Trudgers aren’t typical of the sun and fun most people associate with California. Trudgers is the side-project of Brent Mitzner, who has spent time playing live with Blessure Grave and is probably best known for leading fuzzed-out punk outfit, Rapid Youth. Trudgers dark sound is about as far away as you can get from the distorted pop of Mitzer’s other band.

Trudgers is very much about contrasting sounds fusing a dark and distorted vocal styling with melodies that are often eerily beautiful. His deep droning vocal style is more John Maus than Ian Curtis and songs like “Gimmie Some Good Times” are a perfect example of this fusing a balance between light and dark that Mitzner so good at pulling off

The band released a limited CD-R of a live Los Angeles show entitled Always Crashing Heaven not too long ago and most recently released the Bedrooms on Fire cassette on Goaty Tapes and the Stag at the Social Cassette on Hi Shadow.

- Banana Wintour