No trend
No Trend was an American punk band from the vicinity of Washington, DC. Their style can be described as a mixture of hardcore punk , post-punk and noise rock elements. Since the music also showed influences from other genres over time, it is difficult to assign the band to a genre.
Band history
Little is known about the band's career. The fact is that the individual members of the band formed into a band in the punk scene in and around Washington DC in the early 1980s. Due to her sometimes slow and unusual way of playing by hardcore standards, she quickly became an outcast outsider in the scene. The band themselves didn't seem to mind, sometimes it was even intentional. At concerts, No Trend provoked the punk scene, which was stereotyped into a cliché and more and more lacked original individuality, more and more often through its original (and at the same time hated by many punks) appearance. Her music was not very popular either. Due to its concept and the use of certain stylistic devices, the first single in the music press was wrongly considered a copy of Flipper and Public Image Ltd. referred to, even if one cannot deny obvious parallels to pinball. The first LP followed in 1984. The group gained some popularity the following year on their second album A Dozen Dead Roses through collaboration with New York underground legend Lydia Lunch . More LPs followed, which were peppered with increasingly unusual ideas. At the time, their last album, More , could not even find a label that dared to release it, so it took 14 years before it could be distributed on CD.
Discography
- 1983 - Selftitled, 7 "single
- 1983 - Teen Love, EP
- 1984 - Too Many Humans, LP
- 1985 - A Dozen Dead Roses, LP
- 1985 - Heart Of Darkness, EP (4 songs from the "A Dozen Dead Roses" album)
- 1985 - When Death Won't Solve Your Problem, LP (compilation of various rarities)
- 1986 - Tritonian Nash Vegas Polyester Complex, LP
- 1995 - Teen Love - The Early Months, CD (compilation of demos and live material)
- 2001 - More, CD (unreleased album from 1987)