Trip by Cause and Effect

Trip, Cause and Effect's second album, came out on BMG in 1994, and it's a record made in the shadow of loss. The Sacramento synth-pop duo had been Rob Rowe and Sean Rowley until November 1992, when Rowley died on the road while the band was opening for Information Society, just as things seemed to be breaking their way after Another Minute. Rowe carried on, and Trip is dedicated to his late partner.

You can hear it: glossy keyboards and sequenced pulses, but with a wistful ache under the dance-floor sheen, Rowe's voice straining toward the light. "It's Over Now" was the one that connected, climbing to number seven on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and becoming one of the minor American hits the band is best remembered for.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.