Trapist certainly aren’t afraid of silence. The pauses between the chords are, at times, long enough to leave the room and make a cup of tea.
From the smooth, sedate tranquillity of ‘The Gun That’s Hanging on the Kitchen Wall, to the slow drones augmented with bursts of spontaneous percussion on ‘The Spoke and the Horse’ Trapist like to take their time. To describe ‘The Golden Years’ as a slow-burner would be an understatement on a colossal scale.
Each of the four tracks here – with a collective running time of thirty-nine minutes – are conceived and performed with a keen sense of space and the interrelation between sound and its absence, with the final track, the fifteen-minute ‘Walk These Hills Lightly’ interspersing long, drawn out drones and strings with occasional flickers of guitar, piano and double bass. It’s one of the most subtle and restrained improv-based recordings I’ve heard in a long time, and although it’s far from attention-grabbing, it’s slowly seductive.
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