Thirteen Senses - Crystal Sounds (2011)

2011 release, the third album from the British Alt-Rock band. Four years after what they themselves describe as a difficult second album, Thirteen Senses recorded, produced and mixed this album in their own London studio via their own B-Sirius label. Crystal Sounds is an expanded and remixed version of the tracks the band placed on their website earlier in the year, adding unheard tracks 'Send Myself To Sleep', 'Concept' and 'In The Crowding'. One listen to Crystal Sounds makes clear what their previous records only glimpsed. Always good with a melody and unafraid of being seen as 'mainstream' the new Thirteen Senses sound is more expansive, more muscular and more experimental. The lack of pressure to release also allowed the band reflective time to revisit the tracks and construct an album that flows, from the more accessible likes of 'Crystal Sounds' and 'Home' at its opening, to the march towards the epic gradients of 'I Saw Stars Disappear'.