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Cornwall’s Thirteen Senses return with second studio album ‘Contact’.
The album introduces itself with the piano-led title song, with its epic
clashing notes and jangling/chugging guitars, it sets the scene and leads
into the album nicely, it’s no Politick, but it’s a nice start…I
brace myself for endless Coldplay comparisons.
Next up is the single ‘All the love in your Hands’, its breezy
and summery, with echoing guitars and pulsating bass, it’s a good
track, but it’s a pale imitation of ‘Talk’.
‘Animal’ starts promisingly, around 40 seconds in, the song
explodes into life, thumping drums, it’s a large sound, of beat
bass finished with Will South’s vocals, it’s a refreshing
surprise, just as I was sliding down into my seat, possibly a good choice
for a future single.
Ahh, ok, here comes acoustic track ‘Call Someone’ and as if
as an impulse I blurt out ‘Green Eyes’ over the top of the
chorus, and guess what, it actually sounds as if it fits perfectly in
place.
‘Follow Me’ starts extremely worryingly, with a blast from
an organ, one almost expects to hear Will South belting out how he will
try to fix you. Thankfully the song blossoms into a catchy upbeat pop
song, carrying with the looping guitars and breathy vocal formula that
has gained Thirteen Senses so many fans over the last few years.
The whole album has a feel of hit and miss about it. Thirteen Senses are
never going to be a cutting edge, boundary pushing, genre defining band,
but at the same time you feel that more thought and passion could be encapsulated
into the 3 minutes of each song. The epics of Animal and follow me don’t
feel large enough and the 80’s pop inspired tracks like ‘Spirals’
and ‘A lot of Silence’ don’t feel edgy enough, and the
whole time the album is playing there is an underlying feeling of incompleteness.
It is all too easy to draw lazy comparisons with Coldplay and such, however
in summary, this could honestly be a whole album of Coldplay B-sides.
2 /5
Review by Jakk |
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Will South (Vocals, Piano
Guitar, Keyboards)
Tom Welham (Guitar)
Adam Wilson (Bass)
Brendon James (Drums) |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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