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Album Review: Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling

Brendan Telford

"'Silent Earthling' is a luscious monstrosity not of this, or any, world."

Three Trapped Tigers Profile

Silent Earthling has been years in the making, landing on the edge of the cybernetic instrumental plateau inhabited by the likes of Trans Am and Maserati.

Collaborations with Brian Eno and Karl Hyde (Underworld) alongside support slots for Deftones and Dillinger Escape Plan explains the gloss, precision and tenacious temerity that exudes from the title track, the gossamer brutalism of Kraken and the 8-bit muscularity of Engrams. Straddling Vangelis' synthetic egotism, Eno's esotericism and the machine-fire percussive dexterity of Battles, Silent Earthling is a luscious monstrosity not of this, or any, world.