General Store

The Trio From Mars has released its debut album, General Store.

The Trio From Mars are a rare four-member trio, due to the word “quartet” sounding “too posh.”

In 2003, Dean Dunsford, Davy Weale, and Chris Coupland co-founded a band called Mars Hill in Charlottetown, PEI. That group went on to record two full-length albums, Oxcart and Fate Chance Luck Dance. Mars Hill disbanded in 2009, after which the members went off in different musical directions—playing, touring, and recording professionally and semi-professionally.

After many years in the musical wilderness, Dean, Davy, and Chris reunited in 2018 to play shows as an instrumental trio—The Trio From Mars. In 2024, Chris invited Devin Krauskopf to perform with the band. That autumn, the band hunkered down at BOOM-BAP Studios in Charlottetown to record. General Store is the result of those sessions.

General Store is an organic instrumental art project born from bringing a wide variety of ideas to the table and collectively shaping them into coherent musical narratives. The album’s overarching theme draws heavily from horror cinema—particularly a conceptual film imagined and detailed by Chris—which served as the creative foundation for many tracks.

All songs on the album were recorded live off the floor by Chris Coupland and mixed by Adam Gallant at The Hill Sound Studio.

Stay tuned for an album release show planned for late November or early December.