Bobb would like to congratulate his friends The Prefab Messiahs! Anthology Recordings, the highly regarded all-digital reissues label, has just uncovered and released the Prefabs' comprehensive 'Devolver' anthology for all to grok.  Bobb co-produced and played on a couple of songs ("The 16th Track", "Desperately Happy") on the album.

Other fine "obscure" artists who've been reissued by Anthology include The Monks, Simply Saucer, R. Stevie Moore, The Red Crayola, Half Japanese, D.R. Hooker, Destroy All Monsters, Young Marble Giants, Merrell Fankhauser, The Factory, Faine Jade, and Ya Ho Wha 13.

from the Anthology website:
"Recorded in Worcester, MA from '81 to '83, 'Devolver' by the Prefab Messiahs is a fantastic glimpse into a little known Northeastern scene of weirdo underground rock. Featuring regional personalities including production by Bobb Trimble, 'Devolver' manages to perfectly execute the difficult joining of punk, psych, and garage."

we started collecting some of Bobb's press on this page...

The Acid Archives of Underground Sounds 1965-1982
"[Harvest of Dreams is] rated by most as the best psych LP of the 1980s. One of those obscurities (like D.R. Hooker) that blows even non-collectors away... The total impact is like walking around in one of Bobb's dreams. Melancholic, moving but also hopeful - an essential experience."  (Patrick the Lama)

Agit Reader | The Best of 2008

Aquarium Drunkard - Dec-3-2009

Aquarius Records mailorder - Nov-16-2007
"Maybe you don't know it yet, but (IF you buy these Bobb Trimble albums) you have just been handed the key to a secret realm, an alternate rock n' roll universe of dark despair, fragile hope, and gossamer beauty, a haunting personal soundworld that will always stay with you, within you... "

Thurston Moore (in Arthur magazine, Jan-2003)
"It really has to be heard to be explained. It doesn't come much 'realer' than this."

Bona Fide Records blog - Oct-29-2007 (Rick Noll)

Boston Globe - Nov-7-2007 (full article by Linda Laban)

Boston Phoenix | Download - Jul-29-2008 (No More Bush Tour edition)

Boston's Weekly Dig - Nov-7-2007 (Martin Pavlinic)
"Two of the finest reissues of the year, no doubt"

Chimpomatic (Dec-6-2007)

Byron Coley, on Iron Curtain Innocence:
"A delicate, unsettling dip into a boiling pool of subconscious imagery and otherworldly pixie vocalism. The best tracks cause ripples in the space/time continuum.  Bobb Trimble's first album appeared like a ghost that had slipped through reality's curtain. Impossible to place inside any rational context, the music and voices seem to have been created in your head and, indeed, maybe they were."

Byron Coley, on Harvest of Dreams:
"Incredible, multi-layered late night listening of the highest order...
Without its few contemporary style-nods, you would bever guess the album was originally released in 1982. One of the decade's best albums, filled with a mysterious charm that grows with each listen."

The District Weekly (Long Beach, CA) - Oct-31-2007 (Kevin Ferguson)

Dusted Magazine - Nov-30-2007 (Doug Mosurak)

Forced Exposure mailorder catalog (1995):
"Multilayered voices unlike any you have ever heard... brooding and dark head music flowing into shimmering beautiful fragile glimpses from real life. The feeling is overpowering & the music is ageless. Otherworldly yet breathing with life."

The Guardian (UK) - Nov-2-2007 (full article by Alexis Petridis)

Harp magazine - album review, Jan./Feb. 2008 (David Sprague)

Harp magazine blog - Oct-9-2007 (Fred Mills)

The Lama Reviews (extensive review by Aaron Milenski)
"There is no album I own that has as much emotional complexity and depth as Harvest of Dreams."

Line of Best Fit (UK) - Nov-6-2007

Other Music - reviews, Nov-7-2007

Other Music Top 25 of 2007
Harvest of Dreams - no. 20 reissue!
"It's hard to describe in so few words, but no less an unparalled classic of the psychedelic canon."

Paper Thin Walls - blog, Dec-6-2007

Ariel Pink
"We're the Crippled Pink Band...we're from Wormtown!"
(onstage in Boston, Feb-22-2006, referring to Bobb's old group Crippled Dog Band).

Pitchfork - album reviews - Nov-29-2007

Pitchfork - Crippled Dog Band live video review - Jan-04-2008

Plan B (UK) - iss.28 (Dec-2007)
see also - Plan B's Frances Morgan gives Bobb's "Premonitions - The Fantasy" the nod for Song of the Year!

Spin Magazine - review, November 2007

Terrascope Online - feature article, July 2008
MySpace blocked the link as "spam", duh...
copy/paste into your browser: http://terrascope.co.uk/Features/Bobb_Trimble.htm

Tiny Mix Tapes  - Jan-26-2009 (David Nadelle)

The Unbroken Circle - 2003 (Mark Coyle)
"He reaches the kind of intensity and solitude that only the likes of Syd Barrett and Nick Drake have reached in popular music.  He is a talent of amazing proportions who operates in his own world, one I am glad to have visited but worry for its creator."

Uncut blog (UK) - Sep-10-2007

Uncut (UK) - no. 127 (Dec-2007)

Vice (UK) - vol.5, no.11 (Dec-2007)

Volcanic Tongue (UK) - Nov-2007

WIDR-FM (Kalamazoo, MI) - Oct-21-2009 - Interview blog and podcast

Worcester Magazine - Jul-15-2009 - "The world catches up to Bobb Trimble"

A cartoon version of Bobb appears at the 1:00 mark in this new (2008) Prefab Messiahs video by Xeth Feinberg!

It's set in 1982, and Bobb's 70s Buick (hand-customized by the Prefabs!) appears throughout.
Watch also for fictionalized references like "Slobb Dribble & the Pimpled Dog Band" in the club listings shown in "Wurmtown Magazine"!