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Unbelievable Truth
Almost Here
(Virgin)
With an ear tuned to the fine art of desperate crescendos and strong melodic hooks, Britain's Unbelievable Truth resonate with glimmering similes and surge worthy dramas of counterpoint and harmony. Their debut, Almost Here, creates vignettes of upsets rocked to a gentle beat - small comforts dressed warmly in electric folk guitar. While their recent Madison appearance had a slightly more subterranean feel to it, there was no disguising the lush solitude of "Angel," or the power pop rationale behind "Higher Than Reason." No surprise to find singer-songwriter Andy Yorke was inspired by a stay in Russia to take up writing songs. He is good with the fragile soliloquy and at home with the strength of a rousing chorus. Those twin talents produce a buoyant melancholy, unflinching in its convictions, whose antecedents would be 60's pop and whose contemporaries would be Crowded House or Radiohead. Almost Here arrives slowly, splattering radio friendly anthems among more dour sentiments, but it arrives with full confidence that while the journey never ends there is so much
hope along the way.
John Noyd
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