The TRAIL OF TREATS Story
The TRAIL OF TREATS Story
The Tale of TRAIL OF TREATS
A small child lives in enchantment, where faery tales, adults’ lies, and imagination are one and the same. In the borderland between the real and surreal.
There are wonderful worlds to wander and dark corners to fear. Because the fair folk are really not our friends, and sweet treats in the forest are best left alone.
This album is for the nerds who will never be cool. Who escaped to fantasy worlds through the portals of cult movies, books, and funny-shaped dice. Whether those nerds are young or old, for yesterday or for tomorrow.
Album Inspirations
To the well of grim Slavic folk tales, the Witcherverse of Sapkowski, and my own ghost-haunted childhood.
The music draws from what Trey heard as a kid – cimbalom spy movies, folk-rock phasers, the hidden-in-the-open CR-78, and chord changes from a world very different to today’s. The terrifying psychedelia of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine movie. The bizarre worlds of kids’ TV shows and music. The nighttime woods and rubble beach and dark-windowed houses on the edge of town.
Yet TRAIL OF TREATS isn’t nostalgia for the past, it’s nostalgia for a place that never was.
Distribution
As Trey despises social media and streaming, this album is only available on Bandcamp.
TRAIL OF TREATS is out 24 May 2024.
Bio
From out of Liverpool, Trey Roque lives in Prague, Czech Republic, where he makes his music by hand, soup to nuts. So to speak.
Discography
2024 – Trail Of Treats : Part one of double-LP inspired by Slavic folktales, and Trey’s ghost-haunted childhood. OUT MAY 24th 2024
2024 – Brother Wolf [Released this October] :Part two of the double-LP – following on from Trail Of Treats, but a good deal more rockinger.
2021 – Intimate Letters : Inspired by Leos Janacek, and a mismatched passion pulling you into the red mists of obsession.
2019 – Winter Hours : When it’s dark by three of a Sunday, and school’s tomorrow, you’re not alone.
2017 – Night For Day : Trey’s smokey vocals supported with acoustic guitar flair. Great as a late night companion, taking you to the dawn.
2015 – Subject To Change : An album of songs as photos sparking memories.
2013 – Eagles EP : Four garage-rockin’ tunes – just vocals, guitar and drums taped live.
From 2015, all works made soup-to-nuts by Trey – songs, music, art, production, mixing and mastering.
Trey is also the author of the explosion-packed science-fiction-noir Space Truckin’ Vampire (2023).
