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Trashalanche, the brand new rock superduo featuring multi-instrumentalist and graphic designer Joby J. Ford (The Bronx, Mariachi El Bronx, The Drips, Pounded By The Surf) and drummer Atom Willard (Angels & Airwaves, Rocket From The Crypt, Alkaline Trio) are excited to announce the Friday, February 19, 2027 release of Negative Space, the band’s debut full-length album. Recorded with Eric Loomis (Carrie Underwood, Jelly Roll, Goose) at Frame Audio Archiving, mixed by Marc Hudson (Taking Back Sunday, AWOLNATION, Sunny Day Real Estate) at Rancho Recordo, and mastered by GRAMMY recipient Pete Lyman of Infrasonic Sound, Negative Space is an 11-song noise-rock sonic boom where low-stakes details take on absurd proportions.
Willard and Ford spent the early part of 2026 sending music back and forth before recording in the rolling hills of rural Tennessee later that year. Two five-day sessions yielded a fast, angular, and dryly humorous 11-song heater built from the DNA of some of punk and alt-rock’s most respected bands.
Leading the collection is “Fresh Velcro,” a pummeling track that presents itself as the album’s mission statement. “This sonic blast starts off the album by kicking your lame ass,” the band says. “A play-by-play (of sorts) when we roll through your town.” Additionally, the band offers up “Negative Space,” a song about the daily grind wearing you down — and spending your days in a space.
Joby J. Ford’s career in graphic design — including album cover work for The Killers, Paul Westerberg, and Charley Crockett — finds its way into every nook and cranny of the album, not just its title. In the negative space is where these songs live. Atom Willard’s drum loops provide the spark and scaffolding for the music. Ford builds around them with Dean Hubbard-style dispatches on the twain of rap and country, garbage-fueled catastrophe, and the limitations of subpar pets while Willard pounds his drums into the ground. The two-piece describes its songwriting process simply as “backweirds.” Negative Space brings the background to the foreground.
Negative Space track listing:
- Fresh Velcro
- Negative Space
- Man of the Year
- Rap Tapes
- Cruise Radical
- House Money
- Dirty Mouth
- Cop Logic
- Goodersville
- Wide Wright
- D’Spot
