#15. TRUSS - Tell Me Something
Title: Tell Me Something
Artist: TRUSS
Album: Fluorescence
How do you follow up having your first two albums (one live, one studio) making the Countdown? You make a third album that might be even better than the one before. I'm not sure what makes the core trio of singer Hannah Crandall, guitarist Eric Kennedy and drummer Holden Szalek so damn good together, but this album is just crushing riff after riff, catchy choruses and power. Sheer, unabashed power from every microphone that is tracked, and especially from the vocals. Lyrically, everything on this record resonates with one or another part of my soul, which just adds to the enigma of what makes this band so freaking awesome.
The tricky part was picking my favorite song from the album - would it be the opening puncher "Headlock"? The tremendous TRUSTcompany cover "Drop To Zero"? The crown-pleasing "Soiled" with it's sing-a-long pre-chorus? Eventually, the song that locked in the best with me was, for my money, the most well-rounded song on the record, "Tell Me Something". The song is wholly introspective and shines a beam into your soul as you think about who you are, who you were, and just what has changed in your life.
Also, this is 4 years in a row that a band from Ohio has landed at #15, which also includes the last TRUSS hit, the emotionally charged "Drown" in 2022.
Favorite line: "I just want to feel something in my head but I'm drowning - all alone in a place where I can be myself again"
Previous five #15s:
2024: Flesh Field - Demon
2023: Brave the Sea - Where I Belong
2022: Truss - Drown
2021: AFI - Begging for Trouble
2020: The Unlikely Candidates - High Low
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