Product Description

Debut album from young Leeds-based indie band. They side with the post-punk revivalists in their jerky, rattling dancefloor rhythms, scything punk guitar and swathes of cold keyboard backing, but wield a raw power and disdain for melody and an emotive and cerebral lyrical bent that has seen them compared to late post-hardcore superstars At The Drive-In. Thenumerically-titled singles 'Nine', 'Twelve' and 'Thirteen' are included.

Track Listing

1. Thirteen
2. Twelve
3. Fifteen
4. Nine
5. Nineteen
6. Seventeen
7. Eighteen
8. Sixteen
9. Seven
10. Fifteen
11. Eleven

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44600 in Music
• Released on: 2006-05-15
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

The hard work is worth it
Well, these guys don't go out of their way to make themselves easy to like. You have to listen repeatedly before the layers of their songs yield the underlying structure and skill. You have to work with that deliberately strained voice. You have to try to remember which track is which, when each has a number as a name.

However, you have to admire the constancy of their style, the quality of the playing, the song crafting and, most of all, the energy, the energy.

Saw them live, and the talent was evident, the energy was frazzled. Stragely, Tom calms down totally between songs, and instantly becomes frenzied at the start of the next. (Incidentally, I could swear that some of the new songs were announced with proper, real, word names!)

So, on balance, a quality CD. My tip is never, never try listening to the whole thing at once. Give yourself a burst of energy every now and then with a track or two, and it's life enhancing.

Depends on my mood..
Some days it's great, some days it's not. There are some great tunes on this but there are some stinkers too. The song titles are nothing but a gimmic and a pain in the ar5e gimmic at that. However, that said you can't but admit the tunes do grab you by the neck, shake you about, whack you on the table and then lay you down nice and gently. Go see them live, I saw them at Leeds and JerseyLive this summer and they were superb at both. Basically I can't make up my mind, this album's good, not brilliant but there are moments when you think they could be onto something. Wait for next album, that'll truly define it this is a stinker or a stonker. Can't believe I've used a phrase like that...

Utter Brilliance
Having travelled across water to see this band and chosen them over franz ferdinand, i think its fair to say i rather like them... that should be pretty obvious by rating alone. I've followed this band ever since hearing an early version of 'Thirteen' on an NME new bands cd and i must admit when this album first surfaced at the record shop i work at, i was overjoyed.

This is truely 50 minutes of sheer genius, making them an instant force to be reckoned with and a serious contender for show stealer at the MTV2 Spanking New Music tour in November.

Buy this cd now!