Thief Taker
Formed in 2008, from Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Member since: 17 January 2011
Genres:Indie, Alternative, Funk
Look at your band, now back to us, now back to your band, now look back at us. Unfortunately your band is not us.
About
Thief Taker. So... you have read it all before. Four white middle class-ish guys meet randomly and start a band. So what? First two jam, soon they become three when they find a singer who can actually pen lyrics, and eventually step up to four. So fucking what? Hang on though… So…. Thief Taker. Chuck the Sat Nav, smash the iPod, cut the umbilical internet connection and just stop...and listen. Information overload abounds. It bombards and seduces us into not thinking, but true human emotions still need to be expressed, someone has to sense the zeitgeist, suss the times out, sum it up and throw it back at us to help us truly see, truly understand. In these times of consumerist throwaway expedience there are still things that need to be said, need to be felt. Now, more than ever. If dating sites offer guaranteed 'love in 6 months, or your money back', how long is it before there is an aisle in Sainsbury’s where we pick up this week’s Instant True Love Pack - after we have popped the eggs and milk into the trolley? Well, in these uncertain times, where we all feel uneasy about the direction where we are heading - Thief Taker are switching off X-Factor and doing some of the thinking for us, wrestling with modern life’s dilemmas and holding up a mirror to reflect the questions we are asking ourselves but do not allow ourselves to be conscious of. It’s not a dogmatic manifesto, though. It is comments on life, love and the human condition, wrapped up in simple and accessible melodies to subvert us. Thief Taker are a band of committed partisans laying improvised explosive devices into our unconscious - not as terrorists, but freedom fighters. Guitar, bass, drums and vocals: James, Charlie, Curtis and Luke. Songs to listen to, love, glean a little truth from - and a growing band of like-minded fans who have got the message, and know it is saying something new. So, go to Sainsbury’s – aisle 3 next to the eggs is where they sell the Instant True Love Pack, and the 3-minute boil-in-the-bag 'Answer to Life’s Great Questions'. Then - when you are home, flick on the kettle and boil up freeze-dried gratification while you comfortably forget yourself and watch the X-factor… Or.... take a chance, step out and challenge your preconceptions. Go see Thief Taker, soon. So you can say you were there in the beginning. It might not change your life, but it could help you think a little differently…" --- Richard Cotton, Rotator Records, OXFORDInfluences
Our music is unquantifiable by language. However, I will attempt to express to you what a Thief Taker musical experience is like through imagining a listeners’ thought process. - “Play. Mmm. Those are very nice chords. They seem to fit together in a logical way and I can’t imagine them being any other way, but they also move me very deeply. The writer of this music obviously has a good feeling for and understanding of tension and release in music. That bass line is also touching, melodic but also technically accomplished, which I find admirable. Those drums are very interesting. Clearly, the drummer has some unique creative ideas and these beats I am hearing fit the mood of the music perfectly. To whom does that heavenly voice belong? I have never heard such an evenness of tone and such an emotional delivery. These words are really making me think hard about their particular subject matter also. WOAH. That guitar solo, aside from being Hendrixian in feel, has taken the song in a completely new direction. This band has a firm grasp on my heartstrings right now, and is jerking them one way and another, wherever they please. And I say, 'Thief Taker, you have full reign. Take me where you please'. So they do, and I am taken on a journey, with sounds swirling all around my head until I don't where I am. Where is up and where is down? When the music hit that crescendo just then, I welled up with tears. I am definitely going to “like” them on facebook.com” - -THE UNCENSORABLE CHARLES E. In a nut shell - we are the musical embodiment of an entire series of Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth.Article Comments (0)
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