EP Review
To Catch A Thief - Your Eyes Will BurnTo Catch A Thief - Your Eyes Will Burn

To Catch A Thief are a five piece band from Scotland, they are well known in the UK underground scene and are now starting to get their music out to a wider audience after playing shows with Elliot Minor, InMe and Flood Of Red and in a couple of months time the bands debut EP 'Your Eyes Will Burn' will be released, and to be fair it’s quite a solid EP for a debut release.

The debut EP from To Catch A Thief has been produced by Romesh Dodangoda who is well known for his work with Funeral For A Friend and more recently Kids In Glass Houses, so you pretty much instantly know that 'Your Eyes Will Burn' is going to have some good moments, as Romesh doesn’t fuck about when it comes to producing music. Also To Catch A Thief don’t seem to fuck about when it comes to their music, the whole band are talented musicians who can clearly play their instruments, just listen to the EP and you will see that the band are really tight sounding and play with passion. To Catch A Thief are also talented lyric writers with songs appearing on the EP with themes of death, relationships and also the struggle with the music industry for musicians.

As much as To Catch A Thief have everything going for them does the music scene really need another band like this? As to be fair To Catch A Thief are playing the same kind of music as so many bands that are around at the moment and their is nothing that really makes them stand out from the other bands, well technically the scene doesn’t really need another band like this and if To Catch A Thief were ignored and got no where it would be easy to understand as there are to many bands around at the moment trying to catch attention by playing the same style of music as everyone else and at the end of the day their is only enough room for a small majority of these bands to succeed whilst the others struggle to conquer the underground or stay together as a band. But saying that, their is something about To Catch A Thief that makes me want them to succeed and I’m not quite sure if it’s Ali Lanes impressive clear vocals, the killer guitar riffs, the catchy edge or Romesh Dodangoda's impressive production duties or maybe a mixture of all of the above.

Take a listen to 'We Are The Cancer' and you will get an understanding of everything that I have mentioned above as the song features the most clear and catchy sounding vocals on the whole EP, there are some screams thrown in for good measures as well but they are kept to a minimum, the guitar riffs are never ending and pretty impressive, 'We Are The Cancer' has hit single written all over it and I really hope To Catch a Thief choose to release the song as a single as it’s the best the EP has to offer.

To Catch a Thief are certainly on the right tracks to success, they are talented musicians, they are also working with the right guys who are no strangers to getting good results and helping bands step up a gear or two into the mainstream, To Catch a Thief aren’t mainstream material at the moment but the next 12 months that the band spend promoting their debut EP release 'Your Eyes Will Burn', and touring constantly will only make them stronger and help them break into the mainstream in the future.

4/5

Review by Trigger
 Band Members
To Catch A Thief - Band
Dan Prasad (Guitar)
Ali Lane (Guitar, Vocals)
Mykee Smith (Drums)
Dave Ferguson (Bass)
 Track Listing
1. Until I Wake Up
2. A Passing Phase
3. Your Eyes Will Burn
4. We Are The Cancer
5. Demons At My Side
 Band Related Links
To Catch A Thief Myspace
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?