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Tellison on Decibel Soup


13 June 2011
decibelsoup.com
Ed Cooper
4 Stars

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"The album is amazing. You will love it. Honest". These were the words which graced our inbox with the press release of Tellison album number deux - ‘Wages of Fear'.

Free music excitement aside, Tellison are a band that give the likes of other quintet titans such as Futures, Scholars and Francesqa a run for their money; especially for the slot of one of the most promising up-and-coming bands for 2011/12.

The Wages of Fear comes as the main course of the band's career, with the introductory tracks Get On and Say Silence offering themselves as the tasty condiments for what we all need at the start of summer. The album tackles teen angst, coated with promise, fun and intelligence throughout.

Other, more alternative tracks such as Collarbone give the band a more interesting edge, especially when compared with the aforementioned rivals. With clever instrumentals, various fills and interesting vocal work, it seems that this album could be quite something. The guys are even inventive with names for their songs. Observe - Freud Links the Teeth and the Heart and My Wife's Grave in Paris, - we have no clue either, but it's insatiably gratifying to see that this band is not messing around.
Frontman Stephen Davidson says; ‘A lot of the record lyrically is about what it felt like to be in ...There was a massive sense of coming so close to something only to brush it and fall short. I thought a lot about what I wanted the new record to be like or even how we were going to make a new record.'

Some tracks are reminiscent of Two Door Cinema Club's earlier work, fused with the likes of Temper Trap and Bombay Bicycle Club. Be assured also, that the album is not complemented with hipster fixie bikes and various shades of unearned pride. Instead, expect an honestly produced album, track by track.

8/10
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