The Wages Of Fear Tellison

• 1 Get On 04:08
• 2 Say Silence (Heaven & Earth) 03:21
• 3 Know Thy Foe 03:28
• 4 Collarbone 02:41
• 5 Freud Links The Teeth And The Heart 02:46
• 6 Horses 03:13
• 7 Rapture 03:44
• 8 Tell It To Thebes 04:02
• 9 Letters From Pre-Med 02:41
• 10 Vermont 03:36
• 11 Edith 03:15
• 12 My Wife's Grave Is In Paris 04:39
• Total Runtime 41:34

Info for The Wages Of Fear

The Wages Of Fear in an overall sense is autobiographical. It deals with the frustrations of being in a band as the music industry burns all around like an oil field in the night, with the beginnings and deteriorations of fragile relationships, with the dull longing and search for a sense of order within life that seems so clear in works of art and finally with the abject fear of failure and quiet, aching worry over time wasted and the urgently finite nature of a human life.

London based indie rock band Tellison formed in 2003. After a handful of singles and an EP the band released their critically acclaimed debut album ‘Contact! Contact!’ in 2007 and now. Four years later there second album ‘The Wages Of Fear’ is finally here. The band play radio friendly indie rock that’s got such a big sound it feels like it’s been written for an arena tour or a festival appearance with lighters held aloft, think a rockier version of Crowded House and you’d be in the right area. When I heard the piano intro of album opener ‘Get On’ my initial thoughts were of Coldplay, but thankfully this quickly subsided as the drums and guitar came crashing in along with Stephen Davidson’s emotive vocal. From here on in the album delivered track after track of brilliantly catchy indie rock. With all band members extremely competent with their weapons of choice (guitars and drums), and the songs full of pleasing rock melodies, the thing that stands out is just how tight and well produced it all is. As such ‘The Wages Of Fear’ is one of those albums that’s so consistent in its quality it makes it remarkably difficult to pick out any tracks in particular. If I had to choose a single from the twelve tracks here (aside from the already released ‘Collarbone’) I would probably go for the loud/quiet ‘Rapture’ with its splendid sing-a-along chorus, but ‘The Wages Of Fear’ is a solid album which is great to listen to while driving! (Mark Cousens, www.indiependents.co.uk)

Andrew Tickell, Bass
Stephen H Davidson, Vocals & Guitar
Peter Phillips, Guitar & Vocals
Henry Danowski, Drums

TELLISON is a four piece waking nightmare of a band. Four boys and no girls with acute organisational difficulties from Hammersmith, West London in Britain near France. Drums, Bass, Cowbells, Keyboards, Two Broken Guitars, Four Broken Voices, One Wounded Laptop, some Extra-Curricular instruments, hope and pure, wild-eyed, old-fashioned fight.

They met in Hampshire, Kingston and Brixton and have fought bitterly ever since. When not fighting they've released a 7" single on Gravity DIP Records, a 7" single on New Slang Records, an album on Gravity DIP Records/Banquet Records, two 7" singles on Banquet records, gone to university in Oxford, Cambridge, Berklee College of Music in Boston(US) and Canterbury and toured and toured and toured. They've been electrocuted, shot in the face with arrows, slept on hundreds and hundreds of floors and punched in the face. They've thrown up an awful lot. They care an awful lot. Tellison play what is best described as independent popular music, with disarming melodies and big-hearted guitars.

Education has brought them together and kept them apart. Managing to capture hearts and minds and inspire devotion when they were in the same place for long enough to play shows, their songs which showed such early promise have now blossomed into perfectly formed flowers of passionate, life-affirming guitar pop.

'Contact! Contact!' was recorded in characteristically fractured fashion - in locations 400 miles apart, with two different producers, over a period of six months. The result is an album with the emphasis on the things their contemporaries often lose sight of while thinking up gimmicks - great songs, intelligent lyrics, massive hooks and vocals to make your heart burst.

This album contains no booklet.