Although I know nobody has heard of this band, the Brit Rock party of five from Brighton has released their debut record recently (August 5, 2008 to be exact) Wicked Man's Rest featuring such classics as Night Vision Binoculars which is an all-in-all creepy narrative of a man who is so in love with a woman that he stalks her and watches her from her neighbor's tree, (haven't we all...) and the title track Wicked Man's Rest, which starts the record off on a slow foot, but deep at that.
The record, as previously stated, starts off a little bit slow, but if you can put the slow-paced title track, and get to Night Vision Binoculars, then it's certain that the listener will be hooked by the upbeat and poppy sounds of the song. The next song on the record, Things You've Never Done, is another slow-going song with great lyric meaning, and it has one of my all time favorite quotes, "Don't be scared of failure, the only failure is the failure to try." The same can be said of the fourth and seventh tracks (Girl I Once Knew and Four Horses). The tempo kicks up once again in track five, Do What You Like. The record is full of it's great shifts in tempo, and is profound for it's lyrics.
The sound is a mixture between two other British acts of David Gray and sadly, James Blunt for his high pitched Falsetto voice. But this record is far superior in it's class and is a hybrid of Falsetto vocals mixed perfectly with a balanced amount of pop and rock sounds. This rock record paves the way for other British acts, and leaves the door and my ears open to more and more great things to come.
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Top Five Side One Track Ones
My own tribute to High Fidelity
1. Carry On-Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young-Deja Vu
2. Scarborough Fair-Simon & Garfunkel-Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme
3. Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35-Bob Dylan-Blonde on Blonde
4. Come Together-The Beatles-Abbey Road
5. Roundabout-Yes-Fragile
