MUSIC REVIEW: Downes Braide Association — Trauma

Downes Braide Association have dropped their sixth album. The studio duo project of Chris Braide (Sia, Unstoppable) and Goeff Downes (The Buggles, Asia, Yes) has brought a different mature feel to their last three albums.Trauma opens with “Hello Hello,” a triumphant, immediately accessible track that gets where it needs to go quickly. The song is immediate stuff, the kind of opening that makes the album easy to settle into. Then comes the title track, “Trauma,” and the a