Netster 宅男

Con­tact is the sec­ond album from a band called them self as Thir­teen Senses. The album was release last year in April. I just bought it yes­ter­day

I love alter­na­tive rock band. I am influ­ence by the sounds of Smash­ing Pump­kins, Oasis, Radio­Head, Soul Asy­lum, cold­play and any band that sounds moody, love & affec­tion, melan­choly music almost new age, almost new wave, through the gui­tar and piano. Appar­ently they call it piano rock.

Contact’s album cov­ers fea­tur­ing human head light bulb remind me of how Enigma third album Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi human mechan­i­cal cover. Very mys­te­ri­ous and that’s trig­ger my curiosity.

I lis­ten to the first one min­utes of the first song than the sec­ond song than I thought they sound very much like Cold­play but softer. I lis­ten to the whole album in a car because I thought they were really good and much bet­ter than the last album of Cold­play X&Y. These guys has big influ­ence on Cold­play music by the sound of it.

Their sin­gles “Into The Fire” was fea­tured on the pop­u­lar TV’s series e.g. ER and Grey’s Anatomy. Oh? I didn’t know that!

This album has only 10 songs, too few! Read­ing through the biog­ra­phy from their offi­cial web­site they seem to have gone through a tough time cre­at­ing this album. Any­way, for RM45 this should be 12 songs or 13 songs album.

1. Con­tact — 3:40
2. All The Love In Your Hands — 3:45
3. Ani­mal — 3:59
4. Call Some­one — 3:59
5. Fol­low Me — 3:18
6. A Lot Of Silence Here — 4:13
7. Spi­rals — 4:21
8. Talk­ing To Sirens — 4:02
9. Under The Sun — 4:35
10. Spark — 4:11
11. Ones And Zeros
12. You And I — 3:52

A lot of silence Here & You and I were not in the album I bought. This is a tal­ented band and the only prob­lems are the quiet­ness of pub­lic­ity. My per­sonal opin­ion and per­cep­tion base on their songs & vocal­ist, the energy level on a con­cert may not as good as Cold­play, Keane or Oasis. They can be bet­ter than, as good as Cold­play and sing as ener­getic as Chris Martin.

Thir­teen Senses is now on my PC and in my car! Great album! I will try to get hold of the first album, The Invitation.

Thir­teen Senses are;

• Will South (vocals, piano, guitar)
• Tom Wel­ham (gui­tar, vocals)
• Adam Wil­son (bass guitar)
• Bren­don James (drums, percussion)