"Trick of the Light" is a single released in January 1988 by Australian group The Triffids from their album Calenture (November 1987).

It was produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Echo & the Bunnymen, Foo Fighters) and written by David McComb.

"Trick of the Light" was the band's second United Kingdom hit reaching No.

[3] McComb said the song was, "Written one morning in the company of Bleddyn Butcher, in the woolshed where In The Pines was recorded, while waiting for the band to arrive.

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