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Tellison on One Beat

13 June 2011
One Beat

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For those who like their indie with a heavy dollop of pop, Tellison's new record The Wages Of Fear will serve you up a treat. Having perfected their sugar-coated sound on their 2007 debut Contact! Contact!, Tellison purvey a persona not caught up with the pretensions of being cool, and instead choosing to write fun songs without being afraid to be cheesy.

The Wages Of Fear follows in much the same fashion, brimming from start to finish with catchy songs that could easily soundtrack a summer. Opener Get On initially misleads you with it's first fifteen seconds of melancholy piano, before Tellison's trademark bounce kicks in at full pelt. Stephen Davidson delivers the lyrics of self-assessment and self-doubt, and even though the subject matter is far from perky as he sings 'it was a bad year, we lost everything', the band contradict this with their chiming guitars, and generally upbeat demeanour.

Previously a single on Big Scary Monsters, Collarbone offers itself up as one of the record's highlights, with its terrific breakdown of 'oh, oh's'. As for future singles, Tellison can really take their pick, as The Wages Of Fear is abundant with potential floor-fillers, with highlights coming from that bass-line in Horses and the can't-help-but-sing-a-long-to of Edith.

It's not all jangly guitars and big choruses though, with Tellison providing a smattering of more mid-tempo tracks across the record's duration, including the curiously titled Freud Links The Teeth And The Heart, a cute love-song brought to life with unconventional imagery, and closer My Wife's Grave Is In Paris sadly pours out the softly scathing lyrics 'I wish I'd never met you', for a low-key end of proceedings.

All in all, Tellison fans won't be disappointed with this, their sophomore record, and more to the point, the record should open new doors for the band. Get ready, Tellison are comin' at ya!

The verdict: 7/10

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