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The Tunics - Somewhere In Somebody's Heart
Far too often new bands emerge and get a faint smattering of praise from someone and feel as if it’s job done, they are on their route to stardom and the rest will fall into place. Well more often than not that doesn’t happen because they don’t have either the originality to get them noticed or the work ethic.
One recent band to emerge that certainly don’t lack either of those qualities is The Tunics, not only do they have a healthy appetite for keeping the press happy with interviews and other types of promo, they also aren’t afraid of getting on the road and playing some live dates either.
As well as their work ethic they are also going about things a little differently when it comes to getting their music out their with two innovative ideas. The first saw them releasing regional promo copies of six singles from the album with the flip-side being one of the other remaining six album tracks. By doing this they not only got their album played by influential people, they also made a collectors item as the six singles put together formed a picture.
The album itself is also being cleverly released, giving people three options on how they go about getting hold of it. It’s getting a full digital release via the bands website and other online shops, you can buy the limited edition CD (which is a nice item trust me) or you can burn your own edition which is a fully art worked blank CDR that costs only £4.
All that of course is great, but is it worth buying?
The short answer to that is a definite yes. It’s got a feel of early Oasis, a swagger that the Gallaghers had around Definitely Maybe, but with a lot more melody thrown into the songs. What songs as well, I can see this band really breaking through and making it to the top if they get lucky with one of their releases.
- The Tunics
- Somewhere In Somebody's Heart (2008)
- Category: Album
- Label: Manta Ray Music Ltd
- Reviewed by: Kev
- Published on: 14 Jul 2008
- Comments: 0
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Add to favouritesThey have two main types of track that they utilise on what is a very good album with no weak songs. The afore mentioned Oasis style rock tracks such as The Way It Is, The Cost Of Living and In The City (a song that looks at knife crime) as well as slower songs like Fade Out, Turn Away and the ever so simple but effective and moving Stay Young.
How far they go will ultimately be out of their hands as they seem to have done everything they can around the release of this album, it would be nice to see a band that isn’t sponsored by the NME making it to the top, but that could be asking a little too much in this day and age.
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