English rock band The Trusted are back with a new EP to brighten up your fall playlists.

Love and Suicide, which dropped last Friday is the band’s first release since last year’s Vicious, and features two new tracks, including title track “Love and Suicide” and “Horizontal Mind.”

Thematically, the EP navigates various states of thinking, including optimism, pessimism, and realism. It dives into the anxieties and hopes that virtually everyone experiences during their time on earth- from longing for love and for dreading death.

Opening on “The Innocent,” which is an upbeat pop rock track about the beauty of naivety and dreams, the EP begins by leaving listeners with a feel-good and can-do attitude. With lyrics echoing the idea that “we can have it all,” the track is a mood lifter that is quickly stifled by the second track “Horizontal Mind.”

Through the use of darker and harsher instrumentals and lower vocals, “Horizontal Mind” is an indie rock track that investigates the internal battles of ego and self worth.

“‘The Innocent’ is about the beauty of wanting to reassemble the world, then ‘Horizontal Mind’ is the bitter self-critical extreme of that idea,” the band share. “I guess the change in style between the songs is symbolic of the human mind, it doesn’t walk in straight lines.”

But these feelings don’t last for too long as the third track “Love and Suicide” has listeners facing their existential crisis head on.

A track about the anxieties and fears we all face in regards to our inevitable deaths and other aspects of life that we cannot control, the band describes the track as a “a four-and-a-half-minute emotional breakdown.”

Continuing on the classic indie rock sounds, “Love and Suicide” forces fans to ponder their own existence and accept that sometimes life is not what it may seem or what we may set out for it to be. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be great- which is what the fourth and final track sets out to prove.

As the last song on the EP, “Wild Love” channels the positive and poppy feelings of the first track, and brings listeners back to a high. All about falling into a reckless love and going wherever said romance takes you, the track is a perfect representation of escapism and the perfect finale for an EP all about facing reality head-on.

Forming in 2016, The Trusted are a four piece indie rock band from Southend-on-Sea, made up of vocalist Tom Cunningham, guitarist Dale Holt-Mead, bassist Fin Cunningham and drummer Dave Batchelor.

Heavily inspired by a mix of new and old artists, including The Clash and Catfish and the Bottlemen, The Trusted aim to use their music to discuss real life topics and evoke emotions through the use of their musical talent.

You can stream their new EP, Love and Suicide, out now wherever you stream music, and be sure to connect with the band via the links below.

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