Have Faith
Our current Band of the Month, The Words, release their debut album "Truth and Faith" and demonstrate just why they are our Band of the Month for November. The band have been playing for six years and should be applauded for not rushing into releasing an album before now and growing as a band to produce an album which has plenty of quality as well as quantity at just over 47 minutes and 12 tracks long. The Words didn't rush the recording either taking 9 months to put it together and it shows with the production being top drawer.
Times are pretty exciting with the Manchester quartet having not long played in front of 40,000 people over in Stuttgart at a show to celebrate 125 years of Mercedes-Benz, sharing the stage with the likes of 30 Seconds To Mars and Placebo.
Quite frankly this is how guitar lead indie rock should be, sounding perfectly at home playing in front of 40,000 people or in a small intimate venue with a sticky floor. Either way, you get the feeling The Words would pull it off and the best thing is they make sure they don't just try to imitate any of the successful bands that have proceeded them, like so many before have done and continue to do so.
The tracks themselves demonstrate that The Words have put together an album of varied indie rock styles, from the fast paced 'Time' and 'Siren', funky sounding 'Head Over Heals', the fun anthemic 'Stand Up Sit Down' and the obligatory slow songs like 'Demons' and 'Falling'. Each track is individually a good song, no weak album fillers here. Throughout we are treated to Steven Draper's vocal talents which dip between aggressive, smooth and husky when the moment calls. Basically all the parts of this band fit together perfectly.
2011 may have been a great year for the boys, playing that Stuttgart show, releasing their debut album and of course being band of the month at Room Thirteen but something tells me 2012 is going to be even better and rightly so.