Athlete...

...is a brit soft rock/pop band that I have been listening to recently. I saw the video of their song "Wires" and went ahead managed to get their whole album. They are a very musically inclined band. As in, they are very similar to Coldplay, lots of piano, soulful melodies and lyrics dripping with emotions and feelings.

Their latest album is ‘Tourist’ and the song ‘Wires’ will get to you immediately. The song is about the singer’s new born daughter lying in the ICU of a hospital. The song is pretty horrific in the sense that it is about a new born all hooked up in the ICU but at the same time there is a lot of hope in it and also something very enduring about it. It goes:

You got wires…going in
You got wires…coming out of your skin

Running down corridors, through automatic doors
Got to get to you, got to see this through

Some of the other songs that stand out are Chances (the chorus ‘Those first steps that I can't calculate’ is really nice on this song), Half Light, Trading Air (It has these lines ‘someone better hit the alarm…set it off’, that I found really intriguing!), Twenty four hours (this song has a beautiful & haunting chorus). The striking thing about ‘Twenty Four hours’ I think is that the song could be about just about anything, anything that someone is anticipating anxiously...