Format: LP Album Label: Knekelhuis - KH061 Country: Netherlands Year: 2026 Genre: Shoegaze, Indie Rock, Art Rock Condition: NM Sleeve: NM Tracklist: 1. Landa 01:24 2. Doledrines 04:05 3. Wilting Feral 02:57 4. Geezer 02:57 5. Civil 03:51 6. My Mercy Is Not Free 03:29 7. Thru the Day 03:36 8. The End ft. Jack J 03:12 9. Helltelena ft. LÉO LA NUIT 03:47 10. Graff Grot 02:39
Sans Merit arrives on Knekelhuis with his second album Trolley Polly. A radiant album from currently LA-based Australian musician Griffin James—one that leans into unguarded joy with a playful, disarming sincerity.
The album rocks right away into our world. Lifting off where the guitar pedals mash the gas and go. While at other moments the acoustic guitar passages carry a neofolk intimacy, like the low-voiced choir singer cast out of a pastoral world, left to wander in his own solitude. These moments are swept up by surging shoegaze episodes, slipping into hazy hypnagogic pop interludes and wiry post-punk turns, giving the record a restless, shifting pulse.
Beneath it all lies a lyrical sensitivity that grounds the album’s movement. Sans Merit reflects on the big questions in a world that feels increasingly fragile, balancing vulnerability with a self-aware, gently naïve humor, while staying attuned to the emotional undercurrents of everyday life. It’s this perspective that makes Trolley Polly feel so human—alive in its contradictions, and quietly comforting.