A bold and heavy album from the twin Canadian sisters due out on 28th February.

Bonnie Trash has been an evolving project since 2017 powered by twins Sarafina and Emmalia Bortolon-Vettor. They have more recently filled out into a full four-piece band and have hugely beefed up their sound.

There is some extremely excellent metal and heavy rock songwriting on this album, and we will get onto this in a minute, but I will get my minor gripes out of the way first. This is a very slight album being the first one, I want more of the excellence on display here and I am not getting enough of it. Both the opening and closing tracks add very little to proceedings other than being servants of the overall concept of the album. The band describe ‘Mourning You’ as an album about death and being a “horrorgaze” project. Whatever fired and evolved the key tracks on this album it created some wonderful art. However, I think they needed to appreciate the powerful songs they have produced and filled it out with more. Whilst albums are not as important as they once were I can see a lot of short attention-span modern listeners switching off within the 2 minutes of opening track ‘Grief’, all static and eerie nothingness, and missing out on all the goodness that follows. Equally final track ‘it eats shadows’ is seven minutes of not a lot that feels unearned. I love atmosphere and I don’t need much of a tune to enjoy music at times, but I just feel both tracks cut against everything else on display here, this is not a film soundtrack or a Boards of Canada album.

“It makes me very sad that there are no UK tour dates yet because this album is sensational music from a clearly very talented band.”

Now, onto the good stuff. Already released single ‘Veil of Greed’ marks what would have made a fantastic album opener. Those drums come in hard – demanding your attention, the guitar has memorable wobbling bursts of intensity, and it all goes wall of heavy rock sound in the chorus. It is superb, everything firing in intense harmony.

‘My Love Remains the Same (Kisses Goodbye)’ carries on the wall of sound but occasionally lets it breathe with more of a heavy indie-sleaze vibe that brought the memory of Bush at their very best to mind, or a much heavier version of Suede. ‘Hellmouth’ is another corker.

The six minute ‘Haunt Me (What Have You Become)’ is the absolute beating heart of the album, albeit a bloodied and bruised heart. The guitar is phenomenally intense, the bassline on point, the drumming fantastic. Over it the soaring vocal of “What have you become” flies. It is significantly better than the previously released 3 minute 50 second version on the ‘My Love Remains’ EP.

‘Poison Kiss’ threatens to go big-hair 80s metal from the initial drums but the guitar once again sears itself into your brain in all the best ways. Just when you think you have already enjoyed it – it takes things up a gear in the last minute.

‘Your Love is My Revenge’ is effectively the proper album closer bringing to an end 7 tracks of near perfection. It makes me very sad that there are no UK tour dates yet because this album is sensational music from a clearly very talented band. This is by far the best heavy rock/metal album I have listened to so far this year and is going to be on repeat a lot.