Trst

The project of Robert Alfons, TR/ST combines sparkling synth pop and grimy industrial beats into expansive songs filled with longing, lust, and despair. Dominated by sinuous melodies and Alfons' deep, dramatic vocals, TR/ST plumbed pitch-black depths on 2012's Juno Award-nominated debut, TRST. Alfons let more light -- and dance influences -- into 2014's Joyland and balanced both sides of his music on 2019's two-part album The Destroyer and 2024's TR/ST EP, all of which delivered compelling electronic pop with a remarkably wide empathetic streak. TR/ST began in 2010 after Alf...