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It's a risk for a band like Thirteen Senses to release an album like The Invitation in the wake of the all-conquering Coldplay. After all, any melodic, guitar-led British outfit tends to be lumped into the same category (see also Longview, Athlete, etc.), but to write off Thirteen Senses is to do this young band a major disservice. Sure, on
It's a risk for a band like Thirteen Senses to release an album like The Invitation in the wake of the all-conquering Coldplay. After all, any melodic, guitar-led British outfit tends to be lumped into the same category (see also Longview, Athlete, etc.), but to write off Thirteen Senses is to do this young band a major disservice. Sure, on this debut album they display the three "e"s--emotive, earnest and epic--but they're also very much ploughing their own furrow. For the most part, The Invitation is a melancholic collection, with songs like the piano-led "Do No Wrong" aimed squarely at the heartstrings. Often, though, their chiming guitars and harmonic vocals (courtesy of angelic-voiced frontman Will South) are reminiscent of classic American bands like The Byrds and Big Star, especially on album-opener "Into the Fire", "Last Forever" and the catchy single "Thru the Glass". At times, The Invitation runs the risk of turning into an indistinct, sub-Coldplay mush, especially in the album's latter half, but there's more than enough here to suggest that Thirteen Senses have delivered a promising debut. --Robert Burrow
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Track listing1. Into The Fire
2. Thru The Glass
3. Gone
4. Do No Wrong
5. The Salt Wound Routine
6. Saving
7. Lead Us
8. Last Forever
9. History
10. Undivided
11. Angels And Spies
12. Automatic
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Published 9 months, 1 week ago
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