Trash Kit is a British

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trio formed in 2008 in

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. Its members are

Ray Aggs Ray Aggs is a musician based in Glasgow. Primarily known for their distinctive guitar work, influenced by both West African highlife and post-punk, they also sing and play the violin. Career They have been playing with the band Trash Kit since ...

(guitar and vocals), Gill Partington (bass guitar), and Rachel Horwood (drums and vocals). Original bassist Ros Murray was previously of the band

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also plays in

Sacred Paws Sacred Paws is a Scottish indie-pop band comprising Ray Aggs (guitar, bass, vocals) and Eilidh Rodgers (drums, vocals). The two met as members of the band Golden Grrrls. Their debut album ''Strike a Match'' won the 2017 Scottish Album of the Ye ...

and

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, and Rachel Horwood in

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and Bas Jan (the latter also featuring

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). Gill Partington and Rachel Horwood also played together in Halo Halo. They have been compared to UK

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and

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acts like

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, and the

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, as well as noting the West African

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influence on Aggs' guitar lines. Trash Kit themselves listed early influences as

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, and

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History

Ray Aggs and Rachel Horwood met and became friends at university and had been in a couple of bands together prior to forming Trash Kit, inspired by post punk, African percussion, and street performers who drum on trash cans. They met Ros Murray at the Here shop in Bristol.

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asked them to record for their label immediately after seeing them play for the first time at the 'Yes Way' festival UTR had put on. They released a 7" single, and their first album for the label - entitled ''Trash Kit'' - both in 2010. After their debut release the band's members spent time playing with other bands. Aggs with Golden Grrrls, Sacred Paws, and Shopping. Horwood with

and Halo Halo. Their second album ''Confidence'' was released in 2014 again to critical acclaim. It featured the addition of Murray's former Electrelane bandmate

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playing free jazz-inspired saxophone. In May 2017,

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highlighted them as a band one should know about in an article on the

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's website. Horwood's Halo Halo bandmate Gill Partington took over bass duties from Murray, and in May 2019 they announced their first album in 5 years, ''Horizon'', would be released 5 July that year.

Discography

Albums

* ''Trash Kit'' -

, 12" LP, CD, MP3 (2010) * ''Confidence'' -

, 12" LP, CD, MP3 (2014) * ''Horizon'' -

, 12" LP, CD, MP3 (2019)

Singles

* ''Teenagers / How Do You Do?'' -

, 7" single, MP3 (2010)

Split releases

* ''Split with

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'' - Mïlk Records, 7" single, MP3 (2010)

References

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