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Dutch collective Personal Trainer release their anticipated new album *Still Willing* on 2nd August via Bella Union. Following the singes ‘Intangible’
and ‘Round’ today the band share their new single and LP highlight “Cyan”.
Additionally, Personal Trainer have announced new UK and European live
shows for 2025 to add to their already busy touring schedule. The newly
announced dates including the band’s biggest London headline show to date
at EartH in February 2025.
If you like pop music to keep you on your toes, Amsterdam’s Personal
Trainer provide that service fulsomely on their superb second album.
Essentially the project of Willem Smit (working with co-producer /
collaborator Casper van der Lans) on record and a band live, Personal
Trainer showed a facility for DIY indie-pop exuberance and experiment in
sync with 2022’s debut, “Big Love Blanket”. Now signed to Bella Union,
Willem returns re-energised with Still Willing, a multi-faceted album of
shining contrasts and spry melodies, effusive arrangements and subliminal
sounds, playful lyrics and self-reflection: in short, a pop album executed
with dynamism, vim and charm.
Willem is the epicentre of the band, which originated from impromptu and
exhilarating live shows featuring ever-shifting members of different local
bands sharing a bustling stage. The live line-up has solidified somewhat
but Willem still welcomes the contrast with his recorded work: *“When I
make the record, it’s me calling the shots. But I can’t tell everyone
exactly what to do every second when we’re on stage. There’s, like, shakers
flying around or instruments being thrown all over the place, so I don’t
have the capacity to control that. And that’s really exciting to me.”*
Meanwhile, *Still Willing* arrives as a fervid expression of Willem’s
home-recording and studio methods, tethered to inviting pop instincts and
rich with the fertile promise of more to come. Willem doesn’t want to tell
you what or how to think about the album but, he says, *“It would be
awesome if people like it and buy the record, so that I can make another
one.”* On the strength of *Still Willing*, he’s fit for the long distance.
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