Logo
DiS Needs You: Save our site »
  • Logo_home2
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • In Photos
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Search
  • Community
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • Blog
  • Community

THIS SITE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND CLOSED.

Please join the conversation over on our new forums »

If you really want to read this, try using The Internet Archive.

The Senses

The Senses EP

Label: Release Date: 01/03/2004

5698
domgourlay by Dom Gourlay March 18th, 2004

Listen up. There's a storm brewing over the dividing line between the East and West Midlands known as Coventry, only this time it's not the sound of engines roaring towards the M69 on a mission to escape the endlessly barren streets that once paved the way for Lady Godiva's daring escapades. Or at least there will be if the rest of The Senses' output manages to live up to the three tracks on offer here.

Whilst some of the influences prevalent throughout are what you'd expect to hear from any aspiring young band (Stone Roses, Primals, Byrds, Beatles), there are also one or two moments that suggest less obvious artists such as Felt and the Go-Betweens may have wrestled their way onto Ronan O'Connor and co.'s CD player of late.

Take the atmospheric 'Losing My Way' for example. First impressions seem to draw inevitable comparisons with The Byrds' 'Bells Of Rhymney' before some of the most intrinsic vocal harmonising this side of 'Scarborough Fair' ensure it's status as a worthy successor to BRMC's 'In Like The Rose' is secured.

Similarly with 'On My Soul', the music drifts between mid-eighties Creation territory and classic Roses with an adept nonchalence that many bands of an older stature spend years trying to achieve.

And there you have it. The Senses - definitely ones to watch out for.

  • 7
    Dom Gourlay's Score
Log-in to rate this record out of 10
Share on
   
Love DiS? Become a Patron of the site here »


LATEST


  • Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year 2025


  • Why Music Journalism Matters in 2024


  • Drowned in Sound is back!


  • Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Year: 2020


  • Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter


  • Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing



Left-arrow

cLOUDDEAD

Ten

Mobback
5703
5937

Clor at Brixton The Windmill, Lambeth, Fri 23 Apr

Mobforward
Right-arrow


LATEST

    news


    Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year 2025

  • 106149
  • news


    Why Music Journalism Matters in 2024

  • 106145

    news


    Drowned in Sound is back!

  • 106143
  • news


    Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Y...

  • 106141

    news


    Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter

  • 106139
  • Playlist


    Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing

  • 106138

    Festival Preview


    Glastonbury 2019 preview playlist + ten alterna...

  • 106137
  • Interview


    A Different Kind Of Weird: dEUS on The Ideal Crash

  • 106136
MORE


    feature


    Elliott Smith 10yrs Gone: DiS' editor on the br...

  • 93253
  • Interview


    The Magic, the Mundane and The Maccabees

  • 100676

    feature


    Radiohead's Kid A - the DiS re-appraisal

  • 101472
  • feature


    Conversing with myself and another: DiS meets F...

  • 49768

    feature


    CMJ: Murmuring and myths at an American college...

  • 9529
  • feature


    Factory Records Day: DiS met Anthony H. Wilson

  • 44635

    Interview


    Blood Red Shoes' Laura-Mary Carter discusses he...

  • 104072
  • Interview


    Person of the Year 2014: Meredith Graves - Inte...

  • 98657
MORE

Drowned in Sound
  • DROWNED IN SOUND
  • HOME
  • SITE MAP
  • NEWS
  • IN DEPTH
  • IN PHOTOS
  • RECORDS
  • RECOMMENDED RECORDS
  • ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
  • FESTIVAL COVERAGE
  • COMMUNITY
  • MUSIC FORUM
  • SOCIAL BOARD
  • REPORT ERRORS
  • CONTACT US
  • JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
  • FOLLOW DiS
  • GOOGLE+
  • FACEBOOK
  • TWITTER
  • SHUFFLER
  • TUMBLR
  • YOUTUBE
  • RSS FEED
  • RSS EMAIL SUBSCRIBE
  • MISC
  • TERM OF USE
  • PRIVACY
  • ADVERTISING
  • OUR WIKIPEDIA
© 2000-2025 DROWNED IN SOUND