No Trend

No Trend were an anomaly on the Washington, D.C. punk scene of the '80s, though they were a band that went out of their way not to fit in, and would doubtless have done the same wherever they were. At once plodding, aggressive, and eccentric, No Trend constructed a barrier of chaotic noise that just barely acknowledged melody (usually in the form of thick bass lines that just barely held the songs together), with jagged guitars, venomous shouted vocals, charging drums, and horns and keyboards injecting more off-kilter blare to the proceedings. Often compared to like-minded mer...