Thomas And The Angry Hearts – Thomas And The Angry Hearts

Thomas And The Angry Hearts, an excellent Norwegian quintet based in Lillestroem, has recently unleashed a brand new release that will unquestionably appeal to anyone who appreciates tastefully assembled and expertly performed music. This material is their second piece in 2025, arriving after “Perfect Rules,” an extended play that serves as an excellent introductory piece of what you might expect from their debut full-length. The band also published “Until The End” EP and a couple of singles such as “We Are All Here Now” and “I Will Carry You” in 2024, releases that you should also check out as soon as possible. Lyrically, Thomas And The Angry Hearts explore love, relationships, friendships, various sentiments, moods, situations, and circumstances. They convey all these themes through storytelling lyricism, creating stories that immediately connect with the listeners. It’s a highly relatable material that will immediately resonate with the broader auditorium. Sonically, the band combines many different but complementary music genres to illustrate such rich and luxurious sonic imagery. Perhaps folk music comes to mind first, but you’ll unquestionably notice how some of the finest elements of indie folk, folk rock, psychedelic rock, Americana, etc. Thomas And The Angry Hearts use all these additional elements as more than necessary enhancements, accentuations, decorations, and other details to uplift their music on an entirely new level while still remaining loyal to the primary sonic direction. Therefore, these experimentations with different approaches and music styles resulted in a catchy, memorable, engaging album that will appeal not only to folk-rock fans but to anyone looking for a tremendous listening experience.

As soon as you press play, Thomas And The Angry Hearts immediately wrap around your listening apparatus and refuse to let go long after this album ends. They poured heart and soul into this material, with each song arriving with a perfect structure, garnered with many profoundly detailed segments, brilliant ideas, and marvelous orchestrations. Each vocal, sonic, and rhythmic maneuver has its place and purpose. With the initial notes and beats of “I Will Carry You,” the marvelous vocal harmonies take you away on an epic sonic journey. The soulful, passionate, sincere, confident, emotional, and powerful vocal dualities between female and male vocalists elevate each segment and orchestration to new heights, command attention, and guide the listening apparatus from scratch to finish with such precision and finesse. The impressive vocal range in combination with subtle raspiness seamlessly balances low, mid, and high notes, decorating everything these skillful musicians intended to achieve with their music. The introductory piece, alongside the remainder of the album, shines with many marvelous instrumentations that immediately transport you to another realm. For example, songs like “I Will Carry You,” “Perfect Rules,” “Until The End,” “We Are All Here Now,” “It’s You,” “Bits & Pieces,” and “No One Like You” are just some of the standout moments where the catchy, memorable, engaging guitar works shine in the limelights. You’ll notice how the interplay between many guitar layers shapes a perfect backdrop for all those vocal harmonies to shine upon. The comprehensive collection of clean, semi-distorted, and distorted riffs, chord progressions, harmonies, melodies, themes, leads, and accentuations lurks around creating a lush atmosphere that will convince even the pickiest music enthusiast to repeat this epic listening experience over again. Thomas And The Angry Hearts also included those ethereal, otherwordly, reverby, echoic slide guitar layers, spicing things up and elevating all those instrumentations to new heights. You’ll also notice how the additional banjo, violin, and synth layers contribute more complexity to an already intricate structure, making this album even more pleasant to the ears.

Of course, this collection of excellent songs wouldn’t sound this good without the equally impressive rhythm section. You’ll notice how all those intricate, audible, warm-sounding basslines rumble beneath the mentioned instrumentations, providing more than necessary heaviness, clarity, and depth while binding everything together with drums. These low-ends are rich, deep, dense, and heavy, contributing more power to these songs. The exceptional drumming performance keeps everything in line while dictating groove and tempo with tastefully arranged, flawlessly performed, well-accentuated, moderate beats, breaks, fills, and other percussive acrobatics. You’ll notice how each hit of the snare, kick of the bass drum, and splash over the cymbals cuts the ambiance, accentuating all the instrumentation, and making each composition even more interesting and detailed. Thomas And The Angry Hearts thought about everything while writing, composing, arranging, recording, and producing their debut album. They’ve created an epic listening experience where each composition shines with their tremendous experience, knowledge, skills, and talent. They poured heart, soul, and so many ideas, crafting one of the finest folk-rock album you’ll hear. Thomas And The Angry Hearts deserve your utmost attention, so you should place their debut full-length on your music radar as soon as possible. The album is available on all streaming platforms. Don’t miss it!