Toronto-born, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter and producer Robert Alfons is the creative mastermind behind the acclaimed JOVM mainstay project TR/ST. For well over a decade, Alfons has captivated audiences with a unique blend of dynamic vocals, emotive lyrics and late night sensuality.
Alfons’ fifth TR/ST album, the TR/ST and Nightfeelings co-produced Performance is slated for a September 13, 2024 release through Dais Records. The album’s title alludes to a friend’s offhand remark about the Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based artist’s intrinsically performative nature. Recorded in Los Angeles, the album’s material reportedly seethes with dread, lust, reckoning and abandon. Sonically, the production pair achieved a thick, smoky balance of eerie synths and fog machine low end paired with bruised, crooning vocals. The result is an album of material that moves between beauty and bitterness, rousing anthems and crushing anguish rooted by emotional turmoil, the lingering ghosts of guilt and the memories of those wronged and those still unforgiven.
Alfons’ voice is the anchor in the storm, singing a collage of impressions and confessions with a smeared, stream of consciousness logic. He’s both observer and instigator, performer and playwright, liberated by the stage and the night.
Performance‘s latest single, the Cecile Believe and Nightfeelings co-produced “Dark Day” is an ethereal and uneasy track featuring eerily atmospheric and glistening synth arpeggios, skittering industrial cling and clatter serving as a foggy and unsettlingly brooding bed for Alfons’ achingly bruised delivery.
“I think there’s something in the song about the flashes that come to you when you try to fall asleep, flashes that show you where you have unfinished business,” Alfons says of the song. “It was such a pleasure working with Cecile Believe and Nightfeelings on production for this track.”
Along with the new track, the JOVM mainstay announced October and November North American tour dates. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 9, 2024 at 10:00am local time. The tour includes a November 1, 2024 stop at Brooklyn Steel. Check out the rest of the tour dates below.
TR/ST Live Dates:
Sep 5: Mexico City, MX – Auditorio BB
Sep 30: Prague, CZ – MeetFactory
Oct 2: Krakow, PL – Kamienna
Oct 3: Warsaw, PL – Progresja
Oct 6: Munich, DE – Rote Sonne
Oct 7: Cologne, DE – Gebaude 9
Oct 10: Antwerp, BE – TRIX
Oct 11: Amsterdam, NL – Melkweg
Oct 12: Paris, FR – L’Olympia
Oct 15: Berlin, DE – Festsaal Kreuzberg
Oct 17: Stockholm, SE – Slaktkyrkan
Oct 18: Oslo, NO – Parkteatret
Oct 19: Copenhagen, DK – Loppen
Oct 23: London, England – Evolutionary Arts Hackney (EartH)
Oct 31: Washington, DC – The Atlantis
Nov 1: Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
Nov 2: Boston, MA – The Sinclair
Nov 3: Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
Nov 6: Montreal, QC – SAT
Nov 7: Toronto, ON – Phoenix
Nov 8: Chicago, IL – Metro
Nov 10: Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
Nov 12: Denver, CO – Summit
Nov 13: Salt Lake City, UT – Metro
Nov 15: Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
Nov 16: Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw
Nov 17: Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
Nov 20: San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom
Nov 21: Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
Nov 22: Los Angeles, CA – Novo
Nov 23: San Diego, CA – Modernwav
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