ARTiST: Thirteen Senses
TiTLE: Contact
LABEL: Vertigo Records
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 49:49 min
SiZE: 72,2 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Mar-24-2007
RELEASE DATE: Apr-02-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Contact 03:40
02. All The Love In Your Hands 03:45
03. Animal 03:59
04. Call Someone 03:59
05. Follow Me 03:19
06. A Lot Of Silence Here 04:12
07. Spirals 04:22
08. Talking To Sirens 04:02
09. Under The Sun 04:36
10. Spark 04:11
11. Ones And Zeroes 09:44
Release Notes:
When a band admit they make songs that are a bit
'wafty', you've got to worry. But don't fret because
Thirteen Senses, purveyors of delicate, quivering
pop and so often lumped in with the Keanes of this
world, have changed. They've moved to London, and in
doing so got more 'grunt' (as they like to put it).
'Contact' - their second album - is noticeably
meaner, leaner and more gutsy than their willowy
debut 'The Invitation'.
Tracks like 'Animal' are swirly rock, not girly
rock, still tangibly gentle at their core, but with
a layer of grit which cuts through the smooth
exterior. But old habits die hard, of course. 'Call
Someone' is a bit rinky dink saccharine sweet; it's
anthemic (you can almost see the sun-dazed summer
festival crowds swaying en masse to this colossal
tune) but perhaps a necessary hark back to their
wafty past - we wouldn't want them going all 'death
metal' on us or anything (well not straight away).
In fact, their new direction won't be too much of a
turn off for their die hard sensitive fans - you
still get the epic, swoonsome tracks such as 'Under
The Sun' and the barely breathing piano-and-vocal
wispy stuff ('Sparks').
So now Thirteen Senses find themselves in the same
ballpark as bands such as Snow Patrol; they've
discovered the distortion pedal on their guitars,
and they aren't afraid to (occasionally) use it, but
are hardly up there with your Nine Inch Nails or
Velvet Revolver in terms of all out rock excess.
Whereas this new direction is hardly the stuff of
rock revelations, it's just about stopped Thirteen
Senses being another sweet but essentially drippy
band, and given them a slight, if vaguely timid,
nudge in a more beefy direction.