Never Felt This Way Before - The Billions

Track List 1. I Won't Turn Away 2. Hey Girl 3. My Life 4. Never Felt This Way Before 5. Everybody's Waiting 6. Asya 7. Another Lonely Day 8. Cure The Sea 9. The Reason We Sing 10. Into The Light

 

Describe it in 20 words	An album of short, low-key indie pop songs with a Christian perspective from American four-piece The Billions.
Big Themes/Standout Tracks	Much of this album has a downbeat, melancholy feel, but two tracks stand out as being slightly different: 'Asya' with a hypnotic string arrangement, and 'Cure The Sea' which at times sounds like Radiohead. Themes in this album include dealing with grief, and desperately waiting for Jesus to return.
Anything that lets it down	As mentioned above, the album lacks variety. Listen to any one of these songs in isolation and they are probably fine. But grouped together on an album it is hard at times to tell them apart. Imagine a group of bored, depressed students strumming in your front room on a downcast Sunday afternoon and you won't be too far off how this album sounded to me.
Who it sounds like	Some of Radiohead's more downbeat, less experimental songs.
Rating	** Only if you are really into it