Sep 19, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Releasing his sophomore album Joyland earlier this year, Toronto-based musical artist Robert Alfons, a.k.a. Trust, has premiered a new brand new music video featuring the track “Are We Arc?” More

Apr 10, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Robert Alfons sings, and a girl is possessed by a videotape in the video for Trust cut, “Capitol.” More

Feb 19, 2014 By Laura Studarus

We’re inching closer to the release of Trust’s sophomore album Joyland. More

Jan 30, 2014 By Laura Studarus

The video for Trust cut “Rescue Mister” features a strange series of pulsing LEDs in various 1980s neon shades. More

Jan 23, 2014 By Laura Studarus

On March 4, Toronto, Canada’s Trust will release his sophomore album Joyland on Arts & Crafts. More

Jan 07, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

On March 4 Toronto synth-goth artist Robert Alfons, a.k.a. Trust, will release his forthcoming sophomore album, Joyland. More

Dec 04, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Gloomy synth pop artist Trust, a.k.a. Toronto artist Robert Alfons, has announced the forthcoming release of his sophomore album, Joyland. More

May 27, 2013 By Christopher Roberts

In honor of the label’s 10th anniversary, Arts & Crafts labelmates Gold & Youth and Trust have teamed up for a cover of Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra’s “Lady Bird” and we have the premiere. More

Dec 21, 2012 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar’s Best of 2012 issue is shipping out to stores and subscribers and will be on newsstands nationwide in January. It features Grimes on the cover and includes interviews with other artists who made an impact in the last year, including Baroness, Julia Holter, Mount Eerie, Tig Notaro, Passion Pit, Purity Ring, Ty Segall, Sleigh Bells, Swans, Trust, Scott Walker, Jessie Ware, Wild Nothing vs. The Go-Betweens, and The xx. Plus the Top 100 albums of the year and Year-End Artist Surveys. More

Dec 04, 2012 By Laura Studarus

In light of the reception of their heady goth-pop debut TRST, Trust has announced a headlining tour, set to kick off this February. More

Nov 20, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Currently on the road with The Faint supporting their latest album TRST, Toronto synth-pop duo Trust have debuted a music video featuring a stripped-down piano version of their track “Sulk.” More

Sep 21, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Last week Toronto synth-pop duo Trust released a brand new EP Dressed for Space. More

Sep 13, 2012 By Laura Studarus

And today in unexpectedly colorful news: Trust just released a new video for TRST cut, “Dressed for Space.” More

Sep 11, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Toronto collaborators Robert Alfons and Maya Postepski, otherwise known as Trust, have quickly followed-up their full-length debut TRST with an equally atmospheric EP entitled Dressed for Space. More

Aug 23, 2012 By Michele Yamamoto

On October 30, Omaha’s Saddle Creek Records will reissue The Faint’s 2001 landmark album Danse Macabre with a Trust-supported U.S. tour to follow. More

Aug 14, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

After delivering two very different music videos in recent weeks, Feist has emerged once more, this time with a remix of her Metals track “Graveyard.” More

May 21, 2012 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar was honored to be invited to curate a stage at the eighth annual Great Escape Festival in Brighton, England this year. On Thursay, May 10th, we proudly presented S.C.U.M, Trust, Man Without Country, Weird Dreams, Sunless ‘97, and Hundreds at the Psychosocial Basement in the heart of Brighton. Check out a full gallery of photos from the event. More

May 05, 2012 By Laura Studarus

On Thursday, May 10, Under the Radar is hosting a stage at Brighton, England’s Great Escape festival (which is like a European SXSW). Leading up to the event we’re letting you know about each artist playing. Today we’re spotlighting Trust. More

Apr 23, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Under the Radar magazine is excited to reveal the full lineup, poster, and set times for its stage at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton, England. S.C.U.M and Trust will headline the stage. Also scheduled to play are Hundreds, Sunless ’97, Weird Dreams, and Man Without Country. More

Mar 12, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Under the Radar’s Winter (March/April) Issue will be hitting the stands soon. The issue features an In the Studio 2012 themed cover with the frontmen of three notable acts set to release new albums later this year—Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth, Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste, and Twin Shadow’s George Lewis Jr. The issue also features interviews with Air, Bear in Heaven, Best Coast, Andrew Bird, Chairlift, Dan Deacon, First Aid Kit, Grimes, of Montreal, Frankie Rose, Spiritualized, Tame Impala, Tegan and Sara, and much more. More

Mar 01, 2012 By Laura Studarus

On March 14 Under the Radar will host the first of three free SXSW Day parties sponsored by PRS Guitars. Leading up to the event we’re letting you know about each artist playing. Today we’re spotlighting Trust. More

Feb 29, 2012 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar magazine is excited to reveal the full lineups, poster, and set times for its three SXSW 2012 day parties, taking place on Wednesday, March 14th, Thursday, March 15th, and Friday, March 16th. The Friday party, which is presented by Shure, will feature headliner of Montreal performing their beloved 2004 album The Sunlandic Twins in its entirety, the only SXSW 2012 performance of the album. The lineup also includes Chairlift, The Drums, Reggie Watts, Deerhoof, Bear in Heaven, Youth Lagoon, La Sera, Taken By Trees, and more. More

Feb 29, 2012 By Austin Trunick

Those averse to brooding skulk rock shouldn’t let the album art put them off; the bloated Goth on the cover of TRST is probably a bit too misleading. The music contained within belongs less in a candlelit cathedral than it does on a pulsing dance floor, sounding more in line with a dark, haunted Cut Copy than Bauhaus or The Sisters of Mercy. More