Long, Long Overdue

Not quite a few years unlike that one song by the Get Up Kids, coincidentally if you don't know who that is kids go get one of their records and then beat your head against a wall, the familiar sound you hear is every 'emo'tional band that has come after the Get-Up Kids. Anyways, what I am talking about being overdue with is a little review I promised my friend Thys a while back. He is a local, like me from the very interesting corner of American called Utah. We started to get together as friends when we worked together at a local restaurant in Ogden and then I began to, for lack of a better word, mentor him into playing music. He recorded me a set of songs on a little handheld tape recorder and I reviewed them for him. They obviously were not yet great works of music, but that is the beauty of modifiers in a sentence, they were not yet.

Over the years he began to jam with many locals, our mutual friends included and he continued to allow me to listen to every new recording. He grew, as a songwriter and as a person into what he is now basically around his music and the music he loves. Now with a band, Wedroplikebombs, he is bringing some of the promise in his early recordings to life.

Along with his current band mates, Mason, drums, and Bredon on bass, Thys has created an eclectic mix of post hardcore, emo, and indie dreamscapes. On their latest and close to only recordings, a demo released earlier this year, we find the band lengthening their strides. The songs are almost created out of themes and do not really stick to the chorus verse chorus routine of most local songwriting. It seems that the group do not want to be pigeon holed early in the game, "What it everyone hated who I was?" has an atmospheric tone that resides somewhere between the sad quirk of Motion City Soundtrack and the drone of This Will Destroy You. However this song is a perfect example of what Bombs do best, at the two minute mark they drop the bouncy drum and bass line to allow Thys to come in and build the song to a monstrous wail, leaving a broken heart in the wake with screams of "Go to Hell."

Live, these songs are a whole other animal. They are taken to another level altogether and are best experienced on their own person to person. Check them out on myspace or on facebook, they play shows all the time across the Wasatch front and are a treat to see live. This is a band that, if they avoid the local curse, will go far.