One Sock Thief : Tell Them Now.Unique and melodic, piano-based rock. "One Sock Thief'"s debut album Tell Them Now is replete with probing lyrics and orchestral flourishes, it has drawn comparisons to records from bands as varied as Keane, Depeche Mode, and Genesis. Lyrically and musically, the album examines the balance between chaos and order, both personally and externally. The tone for the album is set by, Neverland- a massive piano driven ode to youth and the unknown. It's straight rhythms juxtapose exquisitely with its flowing melodic lines and it is the most indicative of the sound of One Sock Thief. People was released as a single in the same year that the album was released. Unlike the rest of their freshman offering, People was intended to be more of a dance number, introduced into their set-list to compete with the party-like atmosphere created by their companion touring bands. The rest of the sound on Tell Them Now is however, more of a listener's medium, than a dancer's delight. Wires offers yet another perspective to the Thief's sonic palette and introduces finger picked guitars, a brass section and lighter percussion. Consisting of a guitar-driven chorus, and the self-realizing refrain "you gotta know yourself," Shaker would prove to be the Thief's most successful track, eventually charting at number 2 on the MK (a South African music video channel) Top 10 countdown. Man of Hope is a syncopated rock song that speaks to the madness of everyday life. It alternates between a bouncing verse and a familiar piano-laden chorus, before eventually diving into a double timed outro. Spin is a slow tempo love dirge that is set apart by the relative absence of flowing piano lines, favoring instead a softly strummed guitar. Honey is one of Tell Them Now's darker moments. Echoing the discordant flight patterns of bees, it is set in 5/4 meter. Lyrically, it moves along themes of alienation in the verse, before disintegrating into a flurry of melodic mayhem in the chorus and finally releasing into the relatively tranquil buzzing of bees in the outro. Footsteps of the Angel is One Sock Thief's take on a traditional rock song, and adds a swinging groove to the their typical sound. Once again the band manages to take a relatively ordinary musical concept, inject it with unique textures, and turn it into something extraordinary. Catastrophism offers a heaven's-eye view of earth's shifting tectonic plates, and conjures images of the chaos that is necessary to create continents. The music follows an appropriately grandiose scale and is the only song to fade out, hinting at the continuing cycle of life. Sunday Afternoons is a perfect pop song, that reflects on carefree summer afternoons. Tell Them Now, the track for which the album is named, is about rebirth and uses the metaphor of fire to explain destruction and new life. It makes use of an e-bow and percussion to create a different variation on the sparseness that is thematic throughout the album. Songs:
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Release date: 9/12/2012 Tagged as: Alt Rock, Folk-Rock Recommended albums:
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