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Track List
01) Into Oblivion (Reunion)
02) The Great Wide Open
03) The Diary
04) On a Wire
05) All Hands on Deck, Part 1: Raise the Sail
06) All Hands on Deck, Part 2: Open Water
07) Out of Reach
08) One for the Road
09) Walk Away
10) The Sweetest Wave
01) Into Oblivion (Reunion)
02) The Great Wide Open
03) The Diary
04) On a Wire
05) All Hands on Deck, Part 1: Raise the Sail
06) All Hands on Deck, Part 2: Open Water
07) Out of Reach
08) One for the Road
09) Walk Away
10) The Sweetest Wave
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First Released
2007
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Tales Don't Tell Themselves is the third album by Welsh rock band Funeral for a Friend. It charted at #3 in the UK selling 25,000 copies in its first week and later went gold.
It was released on 14 May 2007 on the Atlantic label.
Before the release of the album, the band released several short studio update videos informing fans of their progress. During the recording of the album, Matt Davies used the same microphone he used to record the group's first album Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation and Ryan Richards recorded his drum parts by recording cymbals separately from the rest of his drum parts and replacing the normal cymbals with electric ones whilst recording basic drums. Davies plays guitar on several of the songs; this is the first album in which he has done so.
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Tales Don’t Tell Themselves is the third studio album from Welsh rockers Funeral For A Friend, and one that finds them in full-on top-of-cliff-helicopter-shot mode. Consisting of an arc of driving heartfelt rock songs, it tells the tale of a fisherman called David whose ship is wrecked and his subsequent emotional and physical journey back to land and his love.
Yup, you heard right, this is a concept album, and proud of it too. But before the memory of 70s prog and twenty minute solos grips you, all the songs here stand on their own individual merits as well as taking you through David’s emotional voyage.
The first song, ‘’Into Oblivion (Reunion)’’ opens with a nod to just those concept albums past with strings, synth, female choral backing and drums coming in slowly but, just as the fear starts to grip, the guitars hammer in and the band launch into a conventional but tightly produced emo epic. In true High Fidelity style, the next two tracks take it up another notch before ‘’On a Wire’’ with its more introspective feel cools you down.
Just as well, because the two-part ‘’All Hands On Deck’’ provides the guts of this album and marks it out as a mature and heroic third effort. Atmospheric, uplifting, energetic and just the right side of polished, these two songs show why FFaF have been an influence on quite a few bands, not least recent tour-mates Fightstar. The lyrics occasionally bow more to the need for rhyme than for sense (‘for the road that we walk / have more miles left to talk’) but the force of their argument carries it over such details with ease. There seems to be less complexity than in previous efforts and existing fans may feel a little short-changed, but those looking for an alternative to the powerful but often bleating strains of My Chemical Romance or the diet-rock of Fall Out Boy should take a listen.
TDTT sees the boys continuing to put clear blue water between themselves and their punkier beginnings, a process started with their last album, Hours, and continue to sail towards the holy grail of intelligent popular-without-selling-out rock-orientated emo. Thar be big fish in these waters, but FFaF have been charting a steady course and display the sort of musical maturity which could lift them up to their place in the pantheon, and soon if they’re lucky.
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Tales Don't Tell Themselves is the third album by Welsh rock band Funeral for a Friend. It charted at #3 in the UK selling 25,000 copies in its first week and later went gold.
It was released on 14 May 2007 on the Atlantic label.
Before the release of the album, the band released several short studio update videos informing fans of their progress. During the recording of the album, Matt Davies used the same microphone he used to record the group's first album Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation and Ryan Richards recorded his drum parts by recording cymbals separately from the rest of his drum parts and replacing the normal cymbals with electric ones whilst recording basic drums. Davies plays guitar on several of the songs; this is the first album in which he has done so.
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Tales Don’t Tell Themselves is the third studio album from Welsh rockers Funeral For A Friend, and one that finds them in full-on top-of-cliff-helicopter-shot mode. Consisting of an arc of driving heartfelt rock songs, it tells the tale of a fisherman called David whose ship is wrecked and his subsequent emotional and physical journey back to land and his love.
Yup, you heard right, this is a concept album, and proud of it too. But before the memory of 70s prog and twenty minute solos grips you, all the songs here stand on their own individual merits as well as taking you through David’s emotional voyage.
The first song, ‘’Into Oblivion (Reunion)’’ opens with a nod to just those concept albums past with strings, synth, female choral backing and drums coming in slowly but, just as the fear starts to grip, the guitars hammer in and the band launch into a conventional but tightly produced emo epic. In true High Fidelity style, the next two tracks take it up another notch before ‘’On a Wire’’ with its more introspective feel cools you down.
Just as well, because the two-part ‘’All Hands On Deck’’ provides the guts of this album and marks it out as a mature and heroic third effort. Atmospheric, uplifting, energetic and just the right side of polished, these two songs show why FFaF have been an influence on quite a few bands, not least recent tour-mates Fightstar. The lyrics occasionally bow more to the need for rhyme than for sense (‘for the road that we walk / have more miles left to talk’) but the force of their argument carries it over such details with ease. There seems to be less complexity than in previous efforts and existing fans may feel a little short-changed, but those looking for an alternative to the powerful but often bleating strains of My Chemical Romance or the diet-rock of Fall Out Boy should take a listen.
TDTT sees the boys continuing to put clear blue water between themselves and their punkier beginnings, a process started with their last album, Hours, and continue to sail towards the holy grail of intelligent popular-without-selling-out rock-orientated emo. Thar be big fish in these waters, but FFaF have been charting a steady course and display the sort of musical maturity which could lift them up to their place in the pantheon, and soon if they’re lucky.
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