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[ATTENDED: September 22, 2025] Truth Club

I saw Truth Club open for Indigo de Souza last year and I really liked their set a lot.

It was pretty obvious that there was a curfew in place because the bands changed pretty quickly (they were using the same drum set so that helped).  Truth Club came out and opened with a song from their debut album.

Unlike Pony, they played many of the same songs (the don’t have a new album yet, but they do have a bunch of new songs).

I definitely enjoy their second album more than their debut–there’s a lot more dynamics going on.  77x starts slow but in an interesting, lurching way.

And here’s what I loved about them last time and this time.  Singer Travis Harrington plays guitar as well and he plays the basic chord structure.  But in these first few songs, guitarist Yvonne Chazal made some really interesting sounds.  They played lots of high chords and single notes.  They bent the notes and made really interesting textures.  It wasn’t always clear what sounds were coming out, but it made the whole thing feel bigger.

After a couple of songs Yvonne switched instruments with bassist Kam Vann.  If I had to guess I’d say that Kam might be the full time lead guitarist because he was pushing the sounds further than Yvonne did.  He played loud hard chords, but also played some solos and added extra sounds.

And really it’s the song creations from Truth Club that I like so much.  There’s a lot of loud/quiet shifts, but there’s also odd time signatures (for one of the songs Travis counted in to 6). 

Just like with Pony, the songs are much bigger and louder live–the chords in Suffer Debt are almost subtle on the album, but live they exploded.  Of course on the album, the middle seriously rocking part (with Travis wailing his solo) is just as loud as it was live.  And the kicker for me is they way their songs end.  Several of them end as if they were just ramping up to do something else.  Suffer Debt ends abruptly in what sounds like a line from a verse.

One of the other songs started playing an interesting riff at the end just as it seemed the song was about to move onto something else.  They’re like prog rock songs but ones that are only 3 minutes long.

Drummer Elise Jaffe brings a ton to the songs.  Their final song It’s Time opens with a simple but unusual drum pattern.  Nothing crazy, but which added an interesting propulsion to the song.

They had four new songs which also sounded great and bode well for the next album.

After their set I talked to Jaffe briefly and told her how much I enjoyed their set and how their songs were a little weird but really catchy too.  She laughed and said they often wondered if the things they added were too weird.  And I said, they were perfect.

Both times I’ve seen them, Harrington’s vocals were kind of muted.  I’m not sure if this is on purpose because when he speaks to the crowd, he’s perfectly clear.  I enjoyed his banter quite a bit, especially when his guitar strap fell off and he caught the guitar saying “it’s my first time playing live.”

I’m really happy to have gotten to see them again and hope to see them in the future.

ψ new (2025)
§ single (2023)
≅ Running from the Chase (2023)
⊗ Not an Exit (2019)