It's a risk for a band like Thirteen Senses to release an album like The Invitation in the wake of the all-conquering Coldplay. After all, any melodic, guitar-led British outfit tends to be lumped into the same category (see also Longview, Athlete, etc.), but to write off Thirteen Senses is to do this young band a major disservice. Sure, on this debut album they display the three "e"s--emotive, earnest and epic--but they're also very much ploughing their own furrow. For … mehrthe most part, The Invitation is a melancholic collection, with songs like the piano-led "Do No Wrong" aimed squarely at the heartstrings. Often, though, their chiming guitars and harmonic vocals (courtesy of angelic-voiced frontman Will South) are reminiscent of classic American bands like The Byrds and Big Star, especially on album-opener "Into the Fire", "Last Forever" and the catchy single "Thru the Glass". At times, The Invitation runs the risk of turning into an indistinct, sub-Coldplay mush, especially in the album's latter half, but there's more than enough here to suggest that Thirteen Senses have delivered a promising debut. --Robert Burrow weniger
1 - Into The Fire
2 - Thru The Glass
3 - Gone
4 - Do No Wrong
5 - The Salt Wound Routine… mehr
6 - Saving
7 - Lead Us
8 - Last Forever
9 - History
10 - Undivided
11 - Angels And Spies
12 - Automatic weniger