Trevor Sensor

1159 24th Street,Des Moines IA 50311

03 September, 2021

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Singer/Songwriter; Americana xBk Presents: Trevor Sensor September 3, 2021 Advance: $10 // Door: $13 Doors: 7:00PM // Show: 8PM Trevor Sensor : “Well I’m dying in this land...” Four years ago, Illinois singer-songwriter Trevor Sensor released his debut album, Andy Warhol’s Dream. A genre-blending work of folk-inspired, punkinfused indie rock tunes, it explored the American idolization of celebrity and the desperation of small town youth yearning for something more. The album won critical praise with it being referred to as a “ragged, feverish concoction, fortified by choppy-bar-band tropes” (Mojo), a “promising first effort for an aggressively intelligent wunderkind climbing the shoulders of giants” (Paste), and “worthy of far more than 15 minutes of fame” (Q Magazine). Now, he returns with his sophomore effort, On Account of Exile Vol. 1. The record is a collection of rural tales by an aged and imaginative drifter. Sensor continues his music explorations through infusing new elements of jazz, blues, and symphonic arrangements into his songwriting foundation, while still remaining a straightforward storyteller whose characters subsist on the unreported outskirts—where myth and mystery still thrive in conjunction with a world where heroism is dead. The songs fanatical, the lyricism morbidly direct, Sensor aims past the plastic glamour of 21st Century America in search of, as he says, “What’s really happening out there”. During his time away from music, the Illinois born troubadour worked various blue-collar jobs while roaming parts of the Midwest and Front Range. Having set the pen aside for a time, Sensor wasn’t sure if there was anything left for him to say. He’d separated from his label and management, and didn’t know if another record would ever be made again. He contemplated whether life was pushing him in another direction. “The wheels fell off,” he says. “I didn’t feel like writing songs anymore if I wasn’t sure they would ever be brought to life properly on record. So I forced myself to stop writing. I busied myself through punishing my body instead—it’d grown soft from the few years of touring I did. So I took up weightlifting, looked for more physically demanding jobs, and spent the rest of my time lounging about reading. I was doing nothing with myself.” But the songs did eventually force their way out. After reconnecting with producer Brandon Darner, who offered to produce his next few records, Sensor broke down the internal dam he’d built and returned to his steady writing output. The result is a body of work that laments both internal and external feelings of exile from modern life—decorated with lonesome scenes of small town America. The singer’s trademark raspy voice howls the plights of broken marriages, trailer park living, college debt, time passing slowly, and the under currents of cultural turmoil in a civilization that’s lost its identity and soul. “I’ve done my best to separate myself from Time,” Sensor says reflecting on the newly finished works. “I no longer think about when the next thing will be made or what I should be doing with myself at any point in time. I still gotta wake up every morning and just get on with it, you know? I’ve always viewed the word ‘career’ as something dirty—a trap that keeps people from living more expansively outside these arbitrary identities or roles they’ve attached themselves to. I believe in just doing things—in action—and doing things well. Whatever happens after is just the way things go. Death being the Great Equalizer that it is, when it’s all said and done it isn’t about who you were but what you did.” xBk is a 250 cap entertainment venue/listening room dedicated to creating superior live entertainment experiences in a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming environment.