Thirteen Senses

Thirteen Senses‘ lead vocalist, Will South, might remind you of Mew’s lead singer (but, not quite as awesome). This piano driven British band with a clean guitar supplementing the tunes is fairly melodic and worth a listen, but you may found yourself ‘in like’ but not quite in love. Listen to a few tracks, and you be the judge.

Thirteen Senses has been picking up steam ever since their inception in 2002. The album The Invitation reached 14 on the UK Album Charts, and their second album, “Contact” launched the band into the UK Top 20. Their third album, slated for release sometime in 2009, should move the band even further away from their ‘beautiful’ and ‘wafty’ roots, to a full on British rock band.

“When we toured the songs,” says Will, “that’s when I actually did think ‘god these songs are a bit wafty aren’t they?’. You got sick of not being able to get into it that much because it’s a beautiful moment and whatever.” “At the beginning of the set we’d start on ‘Into The Fire’,” adds drummer Brendon James, “so we’d come on strong and end strong and it just dipped in the middle.”

For the reasons stated above, I don’t find myself returning to The Invitation very often. It starts strong, but makes a dip and never quite returns to the promising start of the first two tracks. Because the songs are fairly straight forward, they lose their replay-ability rather quickly. Nevertheless, their new preview “Crystal Sounds” sounds excellent! All these signs point towards a mature and rockin’ third album.

Their latest release, “Contact” seems more attractive than The Invitation and I’ll be picking that up soon. You can listen to a few of those tracks on the Thirteen Senses site and I recommend “Follow Me.”

But why not make up your own mind!

Listen to “Into the Fire” from “The Invitation”

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Listen to “Thru the Glass” from “The Invitation”

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