Cat Number: dipltd001
Label: Gravity DIP Records
Info correct on: 10/11/2009

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Very limited (hand numbered to 500) cd single from this great Surrey based emo/indie/pop-rock band.

"I'm telling you. One year's time. The music press will have caught on. Feelgood-core will be all the rage.

Surrey quartet Lucky Thirteen have a knack for writing some of the most catchy melodies ever to be written. It's not turgid, punk-lite, either; it's power pop, done in the best way possible; all catchy riffs and some of biggest choruses this side of Hundred Reasons or Weezer. You'll turn your CD player off with a smile on your face, and walk out into the sunshine humming 'Setting You Off'; or go to the pub and get pissed with your mates, all singing 'Stranger's Stories'. They're not going to grab the Kleenex and start weeping about their ex-girlfriend, and they certainly won't start rapping about how they were smacked as a baby. What they will do, however, is rock your socks off in a delightful Get-Up Kids manner of emo-pop, and let the music do the talking.

Service with a smile, if you like." - Drowned In Sound

Lucky Thirteen play melodic rock coming from a punk-rock back-ground and capture the best of both worlds. 'Strangers Stories' is a sung sing-a-long anthem, picking up on Alkaline Trio punky influences and cacthy melodies with well penned (?)instrumentation...

Whereas 'The Boundary' is a slower, more crafted dark indie rock song perhaps inspired by the likes Idlewild as it still has that fiesty angst underlying the song, and 'Setting You Off' is more of a melodic indie/pop tune, with the poetry positive know-how of Weakerthans, with three-way harmonies, and a chorus to die for.

If you're into Alkaline Trio, Idlewild, Hey Mercedes, Seafood, etc then check this band out at a gig or on this cd...

Its hard to describe this Lucky Thirteen, cos really there's not that many bands out there that do what they do so well. So, judge for yourself from the following MP3.

Download a sample 'mix' of the three tracks as an MP3 (1,740kb) [MP3]

3 tracks:
Strangers Stories
The Boundary
Setting You Off

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