Saccharine Trust

Saccharine Trust is an American post-hardcore band from Los Angeles, California, United States, that was started in 1980 by singer Jack Brewer and guitarist Joe Baiza.

The band would frequently perform with SST labelmates Minutemen and Black Flag. However, Baiza described Saccharine Trust as the "black sheep" of the SST roster.^[1] Drummer Rob Holzman appeared on their 1981 debut Paganicons but left the band to play in Slovenly, replaced by drummer Tony Cicero.

Their early material was semi-improvised and often noisy (for example, the album Worldbroken was entirely improvised live, both the music and lyrics), but later became more focused and jazz influenced.

After a ten-year hiatus circa 1986 to 1996, the band re-formed and began performing around the West Coast.

Influence

In his journals, Nirvana guitarist Kurt Cobain listed Saccharine Trust's Paganicons as one of his Top 50 favorite albums.^[2] Buzz Osborne of The Melvins stated in the book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge that Saccharine Trust were hugely influential in terms of atmosphere. Sonic Youth covered their song "I Am Right" on the SST compilation The Melting Plot. Members of Saccharine Trust also contributed songwriting to the Minutemen's landmark 1984 album Double Nickels on the Dime.

Discography

Studio albums

• Surviving You, Always (1984, SST)
• We Became Snakes (1986, SST)
• The Great One Is Dead (2001, Hazelwood)

EPs

• Paganicons (1981, SST)

Singles

• "A Christmas Cry" (1981, SST)

Live albums

• Worldbroken (1985, SST)
• Past Lives (1989, SST)

Compilations

• The Blasting Concept (1983, SST)

• The Sacramental Element (1986, SST)

References

External links

• allmusic Biography