The Mease‘s debut album The World In High Definition is an explosive rip-roaring and riff-roaring collection of tunes, taking listeners on a journey of love and war, hope and despair, psychedelic trips and indie-pop anthems. Put simply, The World In High Definition is an album that you cannot ignore.
Consisting of Tristan Cooper (Lead vocals and Guitar), Guy Smith (Lead Guitar), Adam Goulding (Keys), Jon Wright (Drums) and Mo Hussain (Bass and percussion), The Mease hail from Derby and have taken influence and inspiration from the likes of Oasis, Verve and The Coral, influences which you will hear across the album.
What We Want – With its rumbling baselines and chugging guitars, this sounds like early Britpop legends Verve. The guitar solos are really uplifting and backed with haunting sitars, give it a shoegazing vibe and is a great start to the album.
Postcards – Huge fan of the pounding drums, on Postcards. The guitar riffs, are majestic and give off a bit of an Editors vibe, in terms of sound and composition. The vocal is emotive:
“Theres nothing more to say, there’s nothing left to do, there’s no words to say, I’ve nothing left to lose”
Long Long Road was the bands most recent single that has been extremely well received. The track is driven around a psychedelic riff-laden guitar, which will be stuck in your head long after the song has finished. The track has a political undertones with the line
“world’s on fire but they don’t care, just as long as they’re taking the lion’s share.”
War On The TV – This track launches straight into a vibrant guitar riff, that has a hint of mid-60s The Beatles. As the title suggests, this has a political edge to it, looking at mainstream TV reporting and the panic that creates around events including people’s reaction.
This Town is a real foot stomper and is a rip roaring rocknroll meets garage rock banger. It’s driven by a hypnotic guitar hook, soaring guitar solos and rumbling bass line. It’s a sound that no one else has even attempted yet feels like an an instant classic. This is one of the highlights of the album.
A Different Kind of Heartbreak is driven by this glorious guitar riffs that you be humming along long after the track has finished. The song is emotive and that comes across brilliantly in Tristan’s vocals. A song about heartbreak that follows you everywhere you go.
Victory Road is a riff filled track and plenty of distortion, that sees some huge guitar work, which wouldn‘t be out of place in stadiums. There is some political undertones in the lyrical content of the song with lines such as
“He’s got fire in his eyes and there’s petrol on his hands”
High Definition sees the title track sung on repeat, great backing harmonies and plenty of huge riffs.
Masters of Deception sees the band head into previously unheard of territory. There’s huge pounding drums that introduce the song before this driving punky guitar riff takes over, giving the song a real edge and plenty of distortion. Huge fan of the lyrics in this track, it’s full of emotion and pretty much hits the nail on the head in terms of current affairs.
(Black and White) Shades of Blue, was a song I was blown away by when it was released a few months ago, with the shimmering atmospherics of shoegaze aesthetic, (Black and White) Shades of Blue is a tune that you can groove along to and is driven by a hypnotic guitar hook. The outro explodes into a full on jam that leaves you totally spell bound and gives you early Verve vibes.
Springtime is an acoustic track, which like that time of year, sees the band offer and a look ahead to better times,“the springtime in me arrives and I open my eyes”. It‘s a beautiful track and sees the inclusion of an organ, that just adds to the atmospherics of the album as a whole.
The World in High Definition is a brilliant album from start to finish, full of emotion, honesty and anthems that will live long in the memory. It explores topics that many wouldn‘t dream of touching, but as we have seen with many great bands over the years, they are often the bands and tunes that get remembered as they catch a moment in time. However, the album is more than that. The guitar riffs are sublime and are packed full of energy and capture your attention.
Rich in dynamics and classic rocknroll energy, The Mease are destined to go right to the very top.
Rating: 5/5
The World In High Definition is released on Friday 23rd September and can be pre-saved here. Alternatively you can buy the album on vinyl or CD from the bands Bandcamp page here.
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