This Morning Call

Influences "Think Sigur Ros stealing Keanes vocals underpinned by glitched up Groove Armada style electronics, and seriously talented live instrumentalists."

Lately I've been a little lazy with my reviewing, which is a shame because I've had some interesting bands approaching me. One of those bands is an up and coming group from Manchester, This Morning Call. A health dose of electronica (beep-beep music as I called it) blended with the soft pop-rock vocals of Ben Hayworth make This Morning Call a wonderful dream-like experience.

They came together just over a year ago when Hayworth started to combine his solo work with some mates who were just messing around with instruments. A few gigs later and suddenly they realised they may just have something a little special here and that's when things turned serious.

I am about to say something a little controversial and I'm fully prepared to be shouted down for my libel... When I listen to This Morning Call, I cannot help but think they sound a little like 'The Postal Service'. Now I know there are a lot of Ben Gibbard fans (and Gibband haters) out there. I am no way saying that Ben Hayworth sounds identical to his namesake Gibbard...but he sorta does...a little less refined in the vocal department and a British accent but the similarities do exist.

A world way from their old pub gigs, This Morning Call found themselves performing at Manchester PRIDE this year. From the feedback on their blog, they went down a treat with a party-loving crowd of 2000 people. To follow this up, they will be the supporting act on the launch of a brand new television station.

For your listening pleasure, I thought I'd share Clockwise. This is one of my favourite tracks from their musical portfolio. It is a very reflective number about love and all the naked emotions connected to love. This is the same track that has forced the UK indie labels to flock around the group, give them long drawn out limo rides and make comments such as "there is a lot of great detail in the music, Clockworks is obviously a great song" (Fierce Panda Records).

This is a band that is making sure their sound is getting out to the masses with a wonderful blog on myspace and a sister blog on Vox.

Whatever your opinion regarding their music, I am fairly certain that This Morning Call are here to stay and will be appearing on a radio station near you in the future.

Free music fans should head over to their myspace for some downloadable tracks. Better to get them while they are still free.

 November 15, 2007 23:30   Ryan my♥posts thismorningcall.co.uk