Bonnie Trash is the darkened shoegaze/post-punk drone project led by twin sisters Emmalia and Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor. If your high-school MP3 player featured tracks from Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, doom metal legends Pentagram, or even shoegaze-y soft-rockers Slowdive, you’ll enjoy their unique flavour of rock. The recent addition of longtime friends Emma Howarth-Withers (bass) and Dana Bellamy (drums) gives the group a new lavish and layered sound, with this expanded lineup featured on their forthcoming EP. Entitled My Love Remains The Same, this new release explores the impossibly heavy subject of love and loss. “Even when the one you love is gone, your love for them never goes away. Memories do not fade, they become stronger. In silence, you feel their presence, and in the brightest of days, they are always there,” the band explains. There’s a subtle softness to the EP’s first single, “Kisses Goodbye” – which you can listen to below this article -, yet the energy is fully commanding with a catchy riff chugging us through. As a four-piece, Bonnie Trash shows off their skill with tight percussion and a heavy bass line. Squealing electric guitar, distortion, and harsh noise give a rough edge to this shoegaze-y track, while Sarafina’s airy and intimate vocals show off the band’s impressive ability to genre-hop from heavy metal to soft rock and everything in between. Speaking on the track, they say, “‘Kisses Goodbye’ reminds us to not be afraid to say farewell, to hold our loved ones close to our hearts, and to remember our most precious moments here in this life are the times we share with our loved ones. After all, my love remains the same”.
My Love Remains The Same will be released on September 13th via Hand Drawn Dracula. Pre-orders are now available here.
Photo credit: Sara May
