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"Depending on which part of its story you choose to focus on, The New Trust is either extremely straightforward or tantalizingly complex. In one corner, the co-ed band from Santa Rosa - located about 55 miles north of San Francisco - plays unpretentious, fired-up indie-rock songs that bring to mind the mid-'90s heyday (think Boilermaker, Knapsack, early Promise Ring, etc.), are catchy as all get-out, and rarely reach the three-minute mark. In the other is a European tour the band booked only a year after it formed, lyrics that quote Jermaine Stewart's 'We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off' while dissing religion and championing a DIY lifestyle, and a guitarist who originally thought her six-string would be used to sing her future kids to sleep.
'My goal was someday I would at least be good enough to play 'Puff The Magic Dragon' to our children,' says Sara Sanger, who happens to be the wife of singer-bassist Josh Staples, who also handles The Velvet Teen's low end. To some, their married-and-in-a-band arrangement is another oddity, but it's hard to get anyone in the band to see it that way - in fact, Sanger would probably still be completely focused on her photography if it wasn't for Staples' encouragement. 'Josh was so serious, and such an optimist - he doesn't do anything unless he knows that it's going to happen. I didn't realize that for a long time. I just thought, 'Oh, this is just something he's doing for his wife to make me feel better.''
Instead, Sanger is part of the band's 10-year plan, which began back in 2003 along with drummer Julia Lancer and guitarist Michael Richardson. Simply put, Staples made a promise to himself and his bandmates that they were in it for the long haul, and even though they recently amicably parted ways with Richardson - replaced by Polar Bears' Matthew Izen - all signs on The New Trust's first full-length, Dark Is The Path Which Lies Before Us, point to the group having the creative energy to make it to the next decade and beyond. 'The 'dark is the path' thing is about the fact that we know we're going to be struggling,' says Sanger. 'Yes, Josh wrote a song about zombies, and there's an ominousness to the record, but we have the perspective that even when you work hard as an artist and you work hard as a musician, there's still so much work ahead of you. Making a record and making a song, it doesn't make your life any easier.'"
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