singing stories on a wrecking ball
I have heard buzz about Australia’s The Temper Trap from my friends who caught them at Coachella and SXSW, but an email from a good friend tonight about how he couldn’t stop listening to their music finally put me over the edge — and now I am also stuck in their songs, happily.
This track skitters and twists over a persistently effervescent beat. The chorus (“and I want it, I want it, I want it…all”) reminds me terrifically of something else I love, but suffice it to say that this is a fantastic slow-building song – here the honesty of Bon Iver’s falsetto meets the shimmering, dancing guitar chords of Joshua Tree-era U2? Maybe.
Fools – The Temper Trap
Their album Conditions is out now in the U.S. on Glassnote Records (Mumford & Sons, Two Door Cinema Club), and if you want to see them live, holy crap you have many many options because it looks like they are everywhere this summer, and selling venues out left and right.
EDIT: This (!!) may be the song that “Fools” has been trying to summon up all day from the depths of my memory, also a freaking fantastic song. Something in the haunting vocals?
Never Ends – Vijay Kishore
Name: Heather Browne
Nice track! I get little whiffs of U2 as well – maybe bits of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”? More ethereal than thumping rock tho. Definitely in the Bon Iver vein.
Re: The Temper Trap tour – did someone angry with them plot out their summer tour? That’s got to be close to 100,000 miles in three months…catch ‘em early, I’d say.
jimbo — April 26, 2010 @ 8:12 am
//The chorus (“and I want it, I want it, I want it…all”) reminds me terrifically of something else I love//
Who’s “Magic Bus,” perhaps?
CD — April 26, 2010 @ 9:50 am
I took a shot on this band when amazon had their album for 2.99 a while back and am glad I did. This album has been on heavy rotation on the ipod.
Mark — April 26, 2010 @ 1:48 pm
It’s $5.99 right now on amazon. Think I might take a chance.
J — April 26, 2010 @ 5:37 pm
Nice stuff!
Harb — April 27, 2010 @ 3:04 pm
this is a beautiful blend of so many kinds of amazing! listening right now. love it.
heatherfb — April 28, 2010 @ 2:52 pm
That Temper Trap song reminds me a lot of their track “Sweet Disposition” which was featured multiple times in 500 Days of Summer so you might recognize it if you’ve seen that film.
Adrian — May 11, 2010 @ 6:42 am