Reissued for the first time since 1990, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanny Tutti's 1989 paradigmatic synthwave major-label 'Trust' is back with a fresh remaster.

After Chris & Cosey split from Throbbing Gristle and embarked on a template-changing synth-wave odyssey on albums like 'Technø Primitiv' and 'Exotika', they returned with the major-label sanctioned ‘Trust’ in 1989, one of their most underrated albums. Fruity and screwed electro-pop is the flavour, an erotically charged set of skeletal bangers that sound mad prescient with the benefit of hindsight. It’s not so much that the production is entirely free of 80’s synth excess - there are a tonne of midi instruments - but the way the synth drums and Cosey’s voice weave around eachother in a stripped, bare fashion, feels like something from another, much later era. 'Illusion' features deadpanned vox against a backdrop of serrated analog leads and proto-techno loops. "We pray to feel what we could not see," "is this illusion?" Cosey sounds even more sensual on 'Percusex', all gasps set against slowed drums and plasticky FM donks, while 'Rise' features an industrial roll of jagged samples and West Asian melodic flourishes. The most unexpected moment comes on the resonant title track, a beatless meditation that hangs Tutti's harrowing words on druggy Fourth World pads. "Do you feel no shame as you break me again?" sheesh.