Photo by Charlie De Keersmaecker
Triggerfinger are back with ‘Come Clean’. Sharp-edged, focused songwriting from the Belgian rock mainstays emerges restless from your headphones, and feels actively alive as the sparkly production hits your eardrums. In addition to its polish as a single, it teases a full album set for release later this year
Arriving from the same sessions as the soaring 2025 release ‘Stars’, the band once again brings a balance of nostalgic influences that makes it feel like a specific decade hard to pin down, which in turn makes it feel vibrant and refreshing. Rhythmic strength, crisp grooves, pure rock infectiousness, it lifts and dives with a truly pop-tinged finish.
Vocalist Ruben Block shares the inspirations, “The matter of confessing one’s feelings might be a weightier enterprise depending on what’s at stake or who we’re confessing to. The song sings about wrestling with the disconnect of a pressing urge to come clean and at the same time the barrier brought by the chance of receiving a negative reply. Especially in a time where a vast amount of people seem to feel no restraint to voice their opinion on everyday life without a single trace of nuance.”
A career stretching over 25 years, Triggerfinger have shared stages with The Rolling Stones, toured with Thin Lizzy and built a reputation as a serious live force. Stepping back after the Colossus tour in 2019, extending that hiatus after bassist Monsieur Paul moved on and the pandemic hit, the band’s renewed sense of purpose is palpable with their recent movements. Triggerfinger are back, there can be no doubt, as they prepare for a run of European shows, they sound recharged and ready to reclaim their place on the stage.
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