GENRE: CLASSIC CLATTER. VERDICT: ROCKTIME DREAMLAND. There's nothing particularly cutting-edge about Thick As Thieves, and that's just the way it should be. The four talented bandmates have perfected a clattering steamroller of a CD, from the opener "First News From the Zephyr" to the well-composed "Mars Viglia" through to cinematic closer "There Were Sparrows," Their second full-length release carefully walks the line between making airtight grooves and falling apart completely. The guys are a literal bunch, too, with themes that speak beyond the regular-joe rock of booze, sex and more booze. True Believers ... makes us so. "
Weekly Dig
"For every moment of hushed beauty here, like the gently plucked acoustics and heavy-hearted piano balladry of "Chemical Division," there's a counterbalancing blast of snarling, vampy rocking, countrified twang, or moody, electronic ambience. It's an impressively diverse sonic palate for the young Cambridge band, whose songs break and crest on waves of sudden momentum shifts. "Mars Vigila" is the highlight: a rhythmically complex burst of chiming, ethereal elegy and melting guitar delay broken up by breast-beating, shouted catharsis. Through it all they maintain a surprising sense of melodic focus for a group stitching so many ideas into such a tightly woven whole."
Boston Magazine
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Weekly Dig
"For every moment of hushed beauty here, like the gently plucked acoustics and heavy-hearted piano balladry of "Chemical Division," there's a counterbalancing blast of snarling, vampy rocking, countrified twang, or moody, electronic ambience. It's an impressively diverse sonic palate for the young Cambridge band, whose songs break and crest on waves of sudden momentum shifts. "Mars Vigila" is the highlight: a rhythmically complex burst of chiming, ethereal elegy and melting guitar delay broken up by breast-beating, shouted catharsis. Through it all they maintain a surprising sense of melodic focus for a group stitching so many ideas into such a tightly woven whole."
Boston Magazine
