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Label  : NAIM Records

West London's cult alt-indie four piece Tellison return with their sophomore album The Wages Of Fear. A bible of bruises, literary split lips and the kind of shiver-inducing depth of feeling you haven't experienced since you first heard Bruce Springsteen. Recorded in one frantic month in an old textile mill owner's house in the Scottish Borders and then obsessively poured over and added to over months in a Hammersmith basement kitchen, Tellison fly the flag for British bands with a fierce unashamed intelligence, compelling honesty and the kind of teeth-bared, old-fashioned fight that ‘real' bands seem to lack these days. After critical acclaim for the bands first long player Contact! Contact! and requests to play shows with Biffy Clyro, Hot Club de Paris, Johnny Foreigner and Noah And The Whale, Tellison wrote and rewrote the songs that would become The Wages Of Fear with only one goal: to make a record better than their first, more complete and more affecting. 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. Speaking about the album's title singer/songwriter SH Davidson suggests: "Taken literally The Wages Of Fear describes the album as the result or profit of fear: fear of failing, fear of the future, fear of things changing, fear of things not changing, fear of loss. If read that way the record itself becomes the ‘wages' earned for several years of dissatisfaction, worry, failure and waste and acts as a warning to others." He continues: "Another interpretation of the title describes the dissatisfaction and negative "profit" of working a job that gives you no joy and that you don't want to do. The money you earn doing it becomes just another part of the thing you dislike and as such gives you no satisfaction. It is a reward for something you didn't want to do, a profit earned for wasting your life - almost an insult, a reminder of more of your time slipping away without you being brave enough to do something you feel is of value. I wrote a lot of these songs as I was leaving University. I'd spent three years learning about post-modern literary critics and medieval devotional poetry and suddenly I was faced with the reality of cleaning a cinema as my job if I wanted to carry on being a musician. That hurt." The institution to which Davidson refers was King's College, Cambridge where he was enrolled during the release and promotion of Tellison's debut album. Meanwhile fellow guitarist/songwriter Peter Phillips was down the M40 studying History at Oxford University. From these auspicious quarters Phillips and Davidson would travel by bus and train to the Hammersmith basement where the band have always practiced and recorded. Bassist Andrew Tickell would make the short journey up from the vibrant Kingston music scene where he worked whilst drummer Henry Danowski was himself spread almost impossibly thin working both for his grandfather Henry Moore's Arts foundation and drumming, recording a never-ending stream of demos and programming the astute electronica that elegantly intersects Tellison's music. Unlike their peers Tellison quietly refused to let lack of opportunities stop them and the foursome from Hammersmith simply went back to the basement to do what they've always done so well: write honestly great, life-affirming and sometimes heart-breaking indie rock songs. Produced by Peter Miles Muzycy: Stephen H Davidson - guitars, vocals Pete Phillips - guitars, vocals, piano Henry Danowski - drums, programming Andrew Tickell - bass, vocals Luke Leighfield played piano, organ and fender rhodes. Peter Miles clapped and played percussion. Matthew C Roberts played saxophone on Tell It To Thebes. Written and composed by Stephen H Davidson except Collarbone, Rapture and Vermont by Peter Phillips. HiFi Choice

"intelligent songwriting that mixes distinct melodies with jangly guitar accompaniments"
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MOJO Magazine

"unabashedly melodic, sensitively anthemic pop-punk...an impressive second statement"
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rock-generation.co.uk
"This could be the perfect indie rock album of the year.”
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musicalmathematics.co.uk
"a new Tellison with an enlarged sense of musical self and a heightened penchant for melody"
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southsonic.co.uk

"packed with memorable moments of dynamic change and air punching infectiousness...The Wages of Fear is a future classic."
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alerttheaudience.co.uk
"with ever-changing, unpredictable musical directions...Tellison has a lot of future potential."
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Surrey Advertiser
"filled to the brim with fun, intelligence, melody, beauty and sadness"


thisisfakediy.co.uk

"without a shadow of a doubt, one of the albums of the year."
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thefourohfive.com

"Tellison have always been a band close to my heart, and with the songs on The Wages Of Fear, it's actually getting a little dangerous how near they are to piercing it...."
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deadpress.co.uk

"if you want an album that is full of good, happy and well-written songs, then this is the album for you."
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decibelsoup.com

"coated with promise, fun and intelligence throughout."
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One Beat
"brimming from start to finish with catchy songs that could easily soundtrack a summer."
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247 Magazine

"Tellison's second album is destined for good things..."


stereoboard.com

"the collection of songs the band have presented here are comfortably the best that they have ever produced."
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theskinny.co.uk

"Factor in Collarbone’s left-field lyrics and medulla-penetrating infectiousness and you’re left with an oddly lovable slice of sunshine and sadness."


Torquay Herald Express
"Bright, intelligent, fresh-faced guitar pop. Good songs aplenty here."


Total Guitar Magazine

"slick production,solid song structures and swoony choruses"


alternativevision.co.uk

"you better be ready to forget everything you thought you knew about pop-music"
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Kerrang! Magazine

"it took a long time but the wait is well worth it"
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RedHotVelvet.co.uk

"musical depth that is seldom heard from Britain’s indie bands."
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The Fly Magazine
"more mature...relentlessly energetic"


Art Rocker

"a bustling, anthemic album"
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Southsonic.co.uk

'the concept of the difficult second album has been blown out of the water. The Wages of Fear is a future classic.'
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NARC Magazine
"super-catchy, feel good guitar-led anthems...with massive hooks and infectious choruses"


punktastic.com

'not only one of the best indie-pop albums to arise out of the UK scene in years, it could seriously be one of the best records of 2011'


Subba-cultcha.com

'Turn up the volume, stick your head out of a moving car window, close your eyes and smile like a cheshire cat'
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The Crack
"taut guitar riffs, reflective lyrics and memorable choruses."


Shakenstir.co.uk

'powerful rhythms, strong and clear vocals with instrumental performances that clearly underline the band’s rock credentials'
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Getreadytorock.com

'it's a powerful and accomplished signal of intent that should more than satisfy'


Alterthepress.com

'Oh my. What an album..consistently solid and unleashes track after track of carefully crafted indie-pop song-writing'
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Virgin.com/music
'instantaneously refreshing for listeners new or old. Anthemic lyrics, killer kick drums and sharp guitar riffs, one of the year’s finest offerings'
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Front Mag

"in the right hands, indie can still rock like a pissed-up angry pirate as these noisy London chimps prove" 3/5


morethanthemusic.co.uk
“Credit where credit is due, Tellison have made an excellent record here"
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Big Cheese Magazine

"an album which proves Tellison are a band to be reckoned with" 4/5
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Rock Sound Magazine

"fantastic...the entire album is packed with forthright songwriting and great ideas" 9/10
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Roomthirteen.com
'a thick slice of driving and impassioned indie-rock that'll be swirling round your head for days'


Kerrang! The Playlist
"There's only one thing that will get this video of the Tellison men dressed in swimming costumes out of your head - this brilliant tune!"


NME Magazine
"With a singalong chorus that grabs through your chest to your heart and gives it a little squeeze, London's Tellison are doing what they do best"


Q Magazine
"a summery haze of sing-a-long vocals and buoyant drums...magic"