Unbelievable Truth


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Almost Here , 5/10
Sorry Thank You (2000), 4/10
Misc. Music, 3/10
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Unbelievable Truth were formed in 1993 in Oxford (England) by multi-instrumentalist Nigel Powell and singer-guitarist Andy Yorke (brother of Thom Yorke from Radiohead). Their early singles, Stone (1997), Higher Than Reason (1998) and Solved (1998) are all collected on debut album Almost Here (Virgin, 1998), a collection of pensive, understated folk-pop tunes with spare arrangements of acoustic and electronic instruments (guitars, piano, organ, strings) that stands like the antithesis of Oasis' Brit-pop and sounds like an encyclopedia of subdued rock music, running the gamut from the Smiths (Solved) to the Blue Nile (the majestic twang of Be Ready), from Chris Isaak (the plaintive yodel of Building) to Jeff Buckley (Stone), from Talk Talk (the dilated atmosphere of Almost Here) to an original style that mixes them all (Same Mistakes, perhaps their masterpiece).

The group disbanded after Sorry Thank You (2000), that yielded three more singles, and Misc. Music, a collection of rare, live and unreleased tracks.

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