Thirteen Senses – Undivided
30th July, 2007 by Chewbacca
It might seem a stretch to describe a song as all gentle, short and epic, but Thirteen Sense’s “Undivided” is just that, on top of everything else. The band, if you haven’t heard of them are from Cornwall, UK and formed in 2003, with two albums to date: 2004’s “The Invitation” where today’s track comes from and “Contact” which was released earlier this year. Both are amazing albums, although I have more of a fond spot for the earlier. As a little interesting tidbit I gleaned from Wikipedia, Thirteen Senses are the only band to have a top 20 single in the UK. Hope that persuades you to listen to today’s brilliant track:
Porcupine Tree are a fabulous British progrock band started back in 1987 and in that time grown from strength to strength and released nine studio albums, their latest in April of this year. Today however, I’m going to play you one of their tracks which isn’t quite as proggy as the rest of their material, but its a brilliant song that was only released as a bonus track on the Europen release of their popular – and first major-label release – 2002 “In Absentia” album. It’s a dreamy, poppy, rocky, whatchamacallit song with dark undertones but amazingly upbeat melody. I have the urge to listen to it all the time, even though it is a bit of a departure from their more traditional tracks. Enjoy Porcupine Tree’s “Drown with Me”:
(Special edition including this track)
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