TRASH SOUND CONGLOMERATE "Skinless In Seattle" the sonic equivalent of feeling stuck in a horror movie

TRASH SOUND CONGLOMERATE‘s “Skinless in Seattle” is not only the trio’s upcoming album’s lead single, but the first song the band wrote for the project as a whole. The new album was originally envisioned as a quick-and-dirty hardcore release, a prompt that guitarist Kat Trosch ran with while crafting the song’s distorted, frantic chord progression. The song’s distraught lyrics followed suit and the end result is the sonic equivalent of feeling stuck in a horror movie.

“I found myself musing about death while on a train ride from Seattle to Portland. For some reason, ‘I don’t believe in ghosts’ had been playing in my mind for some time, and the lyrics then emerged in my head almost fully formed,” Trosch says. “Not even six months later, I lost one of the most important people in my life. I found it to be pretty poignant that the subject matter of this first track turned into a very real thing I would be grappling with in real time, which also informed much of my writing on the rest of Sophomore Slump.”

“Skinless in Seattle” will be released on May 15th, 2026 from Moodkiller Records.

The group’s upcoming full-length album Sophomore Slump is scheduled to land in early September.

see TRASH SOUND CONGLOMERATE live:

06/26 Stanwood WA @ The CRC w/ Beautiful Freaks

06/27 Portland OR @ TBA

07/09 Seattle WA @ The Kraken w/ Unreal and Jet///Lag

07/19 Seattle WA @ Belltown Yacht Club “Kill the Keg” with Bad Optics + Rambush, + Happy Heartbreak + John Honda

07/25 Vancouver BC @ Red Gate Arts Society “Trooper Fest”

08/14 Seattle WA @ Belltown Yacht Club w/ Perennial

09/05 Seattle WA @ Add-A-Ball “Record Release Show” w/ guests

f the history of punk rock was to be wrung-out like a sopping sponge, Seattle trio Trash Sound Conglomerate is the excess squeezed from its soggy corpse. The collective, individually known as Kat Trash (guitar), Bogie (drums and cymbals), and Gwen Static (bass)shares the collective burden of songwriting duties. The trio rips through a genre-bending range that references power-pop, hardcore, and thrash.

Since 2021, T.S.C. has released two EPs, two singles, and a full-length album, with their second full-length, Sophomore Slump, forthcoming. There is no lead singer in T.S.C., the three pass the microphone between them. If they ever forgot their on-stage dinosaur, that’s not the real T.S.C.