Trust

Jest co najmniej dwóch artystów o nazwie Trust.

1) Trust to kanadyjska synthpopowa formacja pochodząca z Toronto, w skład której wchodzą Robert Alfons i Maya Postepski (będąca także członkiem zespołu Austra).
Obecnie są członkami wytwórni Arts & Crafts, a ich debiutancki album ukazał się 28 lutego 2012.
Robert i Maya poznali się w 2009 roku. Niedług potem zaczęli wspólnie pisać i komponować piosenki, efektem czego było utworzenie Trust w styczniu 2010.
Pierwsza EP "Candy Walls" ukazała się w 2011 nakładem Sacred Bones Records. EP przyniosła im rozgłos, który został zauważony przez wytwórnię Arts & Crafts. W 2011 roku Trust podpisali kontrakt z tą właśnie wytwórnią i są pod jej skrzydłami do dziś.
Obecnie grupa pracuje nad drugim albumem.

Dyskografia:

EP i single:
2010: „Candy Walls” (Sacred Bones)
2011: „Bulbform” (Sacred Bones)
2012: „Dressed for Space” (Arts & Crafts)
2012: „Sulk” (Arts & Crafts)
2012: „Chrissy E” (Arts & Crafts)

Albumy:
2012: "TRST" (Arts & Crafts)

Komentarze krytyków na temat debiutanckiej płyty:

Critic Luis-Enrique Arrazola of the National Post said (of their Toronto release party) „Trust gave an outstanding performance proving that they’re an act worthy of all the hype. With a set far past midnight, they’re the perfect ending to a wild night in the city, taking you on a relentless trip through a set list dripping with sexual tension before winding down to the last pulses of the synthesizer.”

Larry Fitzmaurice of Pitchfork rated the album 7.4 out of 10 saying „…I quite like Alfons’ voice; it has a slithering, grimy quality to it that increases the raunch-factor on particularly dirty-sounding tracks like „Shoom” and „Bulbform”, and when he struts his stuff on „Sulk” and „Dressed for Space”, he sounds like the kind of personality-heavy singer indie culture’s been hesitant to embrace over the last few years.”

2) Trust was founded in 1977 by:

* Bernard "Bernie" Bonvoisin (vocals, lyricist)
* Norbert "Nono" Krief (guitar, composer)
* Raymond "Ray" Manna (bass guitar)
* Jean-Émile "Jeannot" Hanela (drums)

The band released its first single Prends Pas Ton Flingue ("Don't Take Your Gun With You") in the same year. This record was later re-released when the band made its first short-lived come back in 1992.

Trust rose to fame in 1979 and 1980 with a music mixing hard rock influences with acerbic social and political commentary with anarchist and anti-Soviet undertones, with a renegade attitude à la MC5.

Trust's success was also due to Krief's stature as a French guitar hero and Bonvoisin's both sincere and mature lyrics as well as his raw energy. Their 1980 hit song Antisocial (on the Répression album) criticized the frenetic, dehumanizing pace of modern life and work in large cities. Its English adaptation by Anthrax on the 1988 Album State of Euphoria is pretty rough and mild compared to the original lyrics: "You spend a lifetime working to pay for your own tombstone, You hide your face behind the newspaper, You walk like a robot in the subway corridors, Nobody cares about your presence, It's up to you to make the first step". Trust were helped on English lyrics for the Repression album by Jimmy Pursey of UK Punk band Sham 69, who may have helped translate the songs' aggressive political messages. Songs such as "Le Mitard" (1980) attacked what Trust claimed was an excessively repressive handling of juvenile delinquency, featuring texts from public enemy number one Jacques Mesrine. Other major political songs includes "Darquier" (1980) commenting on notorious Nazi Germany collaborator Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, and "Mr Comédie" (1980) criticizing Ayatollah Khomeini, who was in exile in France at the time, depicting him as a "torturer". "Les Brutes" (1980) describes the savage acts done by the Warsaw Pact military forces at the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, "H & D" (1979), with "H & D" standing for "Hôpital & Débiles" ("Asylum & Psychos"), accuses the Soviet Union and its secret services (KGB) of suppressing dissent by sending political opponents to psychiatric hospitals under fake diagnoses.

The style of singer Bernie Bonvoisin was compared to that of Bon Scott from AC/DC, with whom Trust had a friendly relationship. Ride On by Bon Scott's AC/DC was covered in Trust's '79 debut album. 1980's Répression dans l'Hexagone live album, which is regarded by many fans as the band's most solid record to date, features two AC/DC covers of "Problem Child" and "Live Wire". Trust Live was released twelve years after its recording by Sony Music France to coincide with AC/DC's famed Live album release in France. However, the band members denied using such a marketing strategy, claiming the masters they thought were lost had been found the same year by coincidence.

From 1983 onwards, the band came under increasing criticism for its less "incisive" sound and the frequent changes of drummers (e.g. Nicko McBrain quit the band after Savage to join Iron Maiden and release Piece of Mind with its legendary "The Trooper"). Furthermore, the French political climate had changed: with the election of François Mitterrand (French Socialist Party) in 1981 after 23 years of Conservative governments, the preoccupations that formed the basis of Bonvoisin's lyrics – denunciation of prisons and law enforcement, the alienation of workers, etc. had lost their edge.

Trust disbanded in 1984 but Bonvoisin and Krief later re-formed occasionally for records and concerts, later "compromising" the once hard rock legend with '00s notorious French rap acts including NTM.

The band's most successful song "Antisocial" was covered by the American thrash metal band Anthrax on their 1988 State of Euphoria album (adapted to English, although a French version of the song is also available) and became one of their most popular songs and videos. A live version of the 12" single for "Make Me Laugh" features Bernie on vocals with Anthrax singer Joey Belladonna.

In early July, Trust's original lineup reformed to perform a '79-'86 best of gig at Festival des Terres Neuvas. The concert will be taped in order to release a musical DVD.

Monday, September 8th: A new album called "13 à table" ("Thirteen at the table") is released. The band takes a new musical direction, with a lot of DJ and rap influences in the singing.
Discography
Studio

* 1977 Prends Pas Ton Flingue / Paris By Night France
* 1979 Trust I (L'Élite) France United Kingdom United States Netherlands Japan
* 1980 Répression France Germany
* 1980 Repression (English version of Répression) United Kingdom United States Netherlands Japan Canada
* 1981 Marche Ou Crève France Germany Italy (with Nicko McBrain on drums)
* 1982 Savage (English version of Marche Ou Crève) United Kingdom United States Netherlands Portugal Japan (with Nicko McBrain on drums)
* 1983 Trust IV (Idéal) France Germany (with Clive Burr on drums)
* 1984 Man's Trap (English version of Trust IV) United Kingdom United States Japan Netherlands (with Clive Burr on drums)
* 1984 Rock'n'Roll France
* 1989 En attendant… France United Kingdom United States
* 1992 Prends pas ton flingue France
* 1993 The Back Sides France
* 1996 Europe et Haines France
* 2000 Ni Dieu Ni Maître France
* 2008 13 à table France

Live

* 1988 Live: Paris By Night (recorded during the Monsters of Rock) France United States
* 1992 Répression dans l'Hexagone (Live) (Répression dans l'Hexagone 1980 tour) France
* 1997 A Live Tour 97 (Insurrection dans l'Hexagone tour) France
* 2000 Still A-live (German edition of A Live Tour 97, contains a bonus 6-track EP) Germany
* 2006 Soulagez-vous dans les urnes! (2006 tour, contains 3 new studio tracks) France

Compilation

* 1997 Anti Best Of France Germany
* 2001 Les Indispensables De Trust (Original versions) France
* 2002 Les Plus Belles Chansons (Canadian edition of "Les Indispensables", original versions) Canada
* 2004 Le Meilleur Des Années CBS (Original versions) France

Boxed Set

* 1997 Trust I / Repression France United States

Tribute

* 2001 Tribute To Trust France