TRACK REVIEW: GRAMMATICS – TIME CAPSULES AND THE GREATER TRUTH

TRACK REVIEW: Grammatics – Time Capsules And The Greater Truth
words: Gareth O’Malley

Grammatics are a band who have been getting quite an amount of critical acclaim recently. Many well-known music websites have fallen head over heels in love with their debut, self-titled, album, which is released via Dance To The Radio on March 23rd. Having heard it, I must say that I find it worthy of all the praise, and will be letting you know my thoughts on it in more detail in a few weeks.

The single preceding the album is a double A-side, featuring two tracks markedly different from each other. On one side, we have ‘Shadow Committee’, a re-recorded fan favourite, all riffs and operatic vocals, and to me the quintessential Grammatics song. On the other, we have the track which is the focus of this review, a new song entitled ‘Time Capsules and the Greater Truth’.

The start of the song is not dissimilar to the start of The Shins’ ‘Pink Bullets’, but there the similarities end, and we are quickly onto the first verse. Lead vocalist Owen Brinley is on form here. His lyrics seem quite hard to make out on this track, yet his vocals are spot on, particularly when, two and a half minutes in, a cello and a muted bass drum enter – “And I might feel something now, even if it’s a lie, there’s a greater truth emerging” – and the song reaches its climax when harmonised vocals come in. A ballad, the song is a departure from the Grammatics ’sound’, if you will, yet it is nonetheless powerful. Highly recommended.

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