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Dave's Take: I hope The Fold's music career doesn't pass too quickly, as their debut CD from 2006, This Too Shall Pass, has a number of catchy songs that you just can't help singing along too. As happens a lot for me, I discovered this band searching around on purevolume where they were listed at #1 on the charts and for good reason. Tooth and Nail has a solid catalog of awesome artists like Anberlin, The Classic Crime, Mae, MXPX, lately and it looks like they have another solid one with The Fold. The first song from this album on their purevolume page, the bouncy pop rock Gravity, was immediately stuck in my head and is a great lead off song for the album. The song starts off with some appropriate lyrics to start of a record
" So Let’s start at the beginning of thisstory I was just a boy nowhere to call home"
and then bursts its way into a extremely addictive chorus that provides a good showcase for Daniel Cassidy's voice as he sings out:
"Just like gravity, what draws you to me Someone I didn’t know I needed It’s like gravity, and it’s stronger than me I need you here"
The Title Track continues with the same up-tempo beat present in Gravity and again we see that The Fold are great at writing lead-in hooks and explosive choruses such as this quickly sung chorus:
"Set set set, now you’re ready to go You couldn’t make it better if it never belonged You can take your time, figure it out This is a call to all the pain (this too shall pass)"
This song like almost all of the songs deal with having hope about getting over past hardships.
Musically I couldn't help but find a lot of similarities between them and fellow label-mates Mae. The similarity isn't bad as I like their use at times of a clean guitar sound, piano samples, and tight percussive sounding guitars and beautiful sung vocals
Personally I found the second half of the CD a little flat for me as I just didn't seem to find the same energy or strong songs that lead it off.
All in all a solid effort and if their new single "New Skeptic" is any indication they are moving forward in the right direction.
Similar Bands: Mae, Need To Breathe, Acceptance, All-American Rejects
Favorite Songs: Gravity, Title Track, Backseat Drivers, New City