Soul Side - Trigger (CA)

All Music Guide

When Soul Side's Trigger was released in 1987, it marked a departure from the "how-fast-can- you-go?" formula that had characterized the Washington D.C. punk scene since Bad Brains and Minor Threat surfaced in the early 1980s. In Trigger, one can find distant echoes of the dissonant guitar attacks and the fast-slow changes that Fugazi would soon perfect on their own records. While it is not recognized as a completely groundbreaking record, it certainly was one of the first of its kind to come from the D.C. scene, and it provided a blueprint for many other bands, like Jawbox, that followed in Soul Side's footsteps.

- Kembrew McLeod, All Music Guide