Music for Neighbors by The Trypes

❝ Music for Neighbors marks the 40th anniversary of the formation of The Trypes in the blue-collar New Jersey town of Haledon, NJ … [this collection] brings together all of The Trypes studio recordings, along with many home and live recordings that explore the band’s quirkiest musical inclinations. ❞ *

The Trypes featured all of The Feelies in its rotating membership. Once The Feelies became more of a focused affair after The Good Earth, the core Trypes continued on as Speed The Plow (with The Feelies’ Stanley Demeski and Brenda Sauter continuing to contribute). The first five songs in this collection constituted a prior release by The Trypes, a hard-to-find 5-song EP from 1984 called The Explorer’s Hold. Those songs kind of feel like if Eno worked with a psych-folk band after leaving Roxy Music rather than recording Here Come The Warm Jets. Also, for fans of The Good Earth (my favorite album of all time, btw), “The Undertow” sounds like a solid outtake from that recording session.