小档案
中 文 名 超感乐队
外 文 名 thirteen senses
性 质 摇滚乐队
主 唱 cornwall,Will South
艺人资料
Thirteen Senses ,中文名为超感乐队,是来自英格兰 Cornwall,Penzance的一支另类摇滚乐队。乐队成员四人都来自英格兰的cornwall,Will South是乐队的主唱,同时负责部分吉他和键盘的演奏,Tom Welham为乐队的吉他手,另外两名是贝斯手Adam Wilson和鼓手Brendon James。四人在学院结识后组建了 thirteen senses,初期主要是在英格兰的西南部做一些小的演出。2003年12月,thirteen senses进驻伦敦,开始了真正意义的乐队生涯。
Thirteen Senses在正式改名为Thirteen Senses前的名字为Soul Magician.这是乐队早期的曾用名,在Soul Magician的名义下,乐队于2002年出过一张叫做Inside A Healing Mind的EP,这张EP共包括4首歌曲。这张EP是Thirteen Senses严格意义上的处女作。之后乐队才正式改名为Thirteen Senses。并于2003年推出了乐队的首张大碟《Falls In The Dark》。Thirteen Senses在商业上并不成功,因此有很多人并不知道这张大碟的存在,网上有些推荐者认为2004年的《The Invitation》是乐队的初次登台,显然是错误的。
由于宣传的原因,Thirteen Senses的知名度并不是很高,特别是美洲。但是他们的音乐的质量是毋庸置疑的。
2004年的3月乐队发表他们的首张单曲《Thru The Glass》 (05年的一月这张单曲再版发行)。之后第二张单曲唱片《Do No Wrong》的发表可以算作成功的后继,但第三张 单曲唱片《into the fire》的发表才算是为thirteen senses的发展彻底铺平了道路。《into the fire》也成为thirteen senses目前最红的热门单曲。第四支单曲为《the salt wound routine》。这四支单曲中有三支进入UK Top 40排行榜。
紧随其后于2004年9月27日正式发行的专辑《the invitation》虽然已有大部分作品提前在单曲唱片中曝光,使专辑缺乏神秘感,但在12首曲目中,除了提到的《into the fire》一气呵成以及《Thru The Glass》跌宕起伏外,仍有《gone》里的假声漂亮而经典,《the salt wound routine》中的钢琴理性而认真。
这是一张在乐迷们看来绝不亚于当年Starsailor的《Love Is Here》的Debut专辑,Starsailor凭它拿了年度最佳新人,而Thirteen Senses不能说什么也没得到,起码他们的两首单曲在英国摇滚榜上也到过前3。
在如今英伦朋克热潮中,Thirteen Sense的音乐还是让人眼前一亮的。在漫天70s-80s的合成器复古声浪中,单纯美好的旋律和原音钢琴变成了最奢侈的浪漫享受。和Keane一样,他们用钢琴做主要配器,虽没有Keane那么顿挫有力,但加上柔和的吉他贝斯,增添了一分细腻。主唱Will South的嗓音虽然不象Keane主唱那般惊艳,但也柔美清澈的可以,每次聆听都会被新的细节感动。要说有些作品也不失波澜壮阔的感觉,只是没有表现的那么张扬,而是更多内敛。
2004年之后乐队又于2007年推出了第三张大碟《Contact》。
2010年乐队又发行新专辑《Crystal Sounds》。
2013年2月27日,乐队在脸书上称其正在完成对新专辑的制作。
关于单曲,目前Thirteen Senses一共发行了9支。
2014年2月6日,乐队通过Facebook和推特宣布新专辑《A Strange Encounter》将会在2014年5月5日发行。
Thirteen Senses are a post-britpop band from Penzance, Cornwall. The group released the album The Invitation on 27 September 2004, along with several singles: "Thru the Glass", "Do No Wrong", "Into the Fire" and "The Salt Wound Routine", of which the first three have reached the UK Top 40. Their second album, Contact, was released in April 2007. Thirteen Senses are the only Cornish band to have a Top 20 single.
Thirteen Senses started out as Soul Magician, that began in school when Will South started writing songs which he showed Adam Wilson. He in turn liked the songs and left the other band he was in at the time. Soul Magician took off when South and Wilson met Tom Welham. The latter knew Brendon James and they all became friends.
In 2002 Soul Magician released an EP, Inside A Healing Mind, which was produced by Leon Phillips. It consisted of four tracks, one of which was later released as a B-side. "Attracting Submission" is found on the "Do No Wrong" 7" vinyl. After that came in 2002 the No Other Life Is Attractive EP: the first Thirteen Senses release, produced by Dare Mason. This had five tracks. Four of them have been released as B-sides, the exception being "Sound". They then issued in 2003, Falls In The Dark, a self-released and independent demo album.
The band's next release and major label debut album was The Invitation. This consisted of twelve tracks and reached number 14 in the UK Albums Chart on its re-release.
At the beginning of 2004 and before The Invitation, Thirteen Senses released their first single, "Thru the Glass". This was released on both CD and 7" vinyl. The B-side was identical on both releases: "No Other Life Is Attractive". Later, the next single was "Do No Wrong" and it reached number 38 in the official UK Singles Chart. To promote it, Thirteen Senses went on tour, including a homecoming gig at the Hall for Cornwall in Truro.
The third single from the band was "Into the Fire". This was also released on two CDs and vinyl "Into The Fire" was used on BBC One's Match of the Day. After this came a re-release of "Thru the Glass" which broke the group into the UK Top 20.
The band toured both in the UK and Europe in 2005 and made several appearances at festivals such as Glastonbury, T in the Park and V Festival.
The band spent much of the latter part of 2005 and early 2006 in the recording studio, working on their next album, Contact. It was released on 2 April 2007. It was originally planned to be released in February 2007 but after playing three pre-album gigs at The Luminaire in London (on the thirteenth of the months of October, November and December), the band produced new tracks. "Talking to Sirens", one of the new tracks from Contact, was only played at the last gig. Due to the new album release date, their UK tour was rescheduled for March.
On 28 August 2007 Thirteen Senses announced through their website that they had begun recording their third album, and between April–July 2008 they previewed samples of 8 demo recordings on their MySpace page.After several months without official contact from the band, on 28 May 2009, Brendon James announced that their third studio album was close to completion and it would, "all being well, be released within the next 2-3 months".
On 16 March 2010 the band made their third album, "Crystal Sounds" available to stream on their website, www.thirteensenses.com. A day later they announced this on their MySpace page and said the album would be available to stream "for a limited time". The physical version of "Crystal Sounds" was released on 21 February 2011 with four tracks not featured on the early release.
On 27 February 2013, the band announced via Facebook and Twitter that "work on a new album is reaching its conclusion... more news coming soon...!"
And on 6 February 2014, the band announced via Facebook and Twitter that the new album "A Strange Encounter" will be released on 5 May 2014.