#mindfarers

Unbelievable truth was a British band led by Andy Yorke including Nigel Powell, Jason Moulster, and Jim Crosskey formed in 1993 in Oxford and was named after Hal Hartley’s film “The Unbelievable Truth”. They released their first album Almost Here in 1998 on Virgin Records, and their second album Sorrythankyou in 2000 on Shifty Disco. Unbelievable truth split up in 2000 because Yorke decided to leave the band.  In 2001 though, they released a self-published  double album called Misc. Music. Disc 1 contained B-sides and unreleased tracks, while disc 2 was the live recording of their farewell show which was held at the Zodiac in Oxford.  The band has reunited for a one time gig February 19, 2005 to support tsunami victims, but there has been no indication of them getting back together. They have those indie rock elements: smooth flowing vocals, ongoing and circular percussion and rhythm, soaring melodies and mellowness. Low melodies and rhythms that build upon themselves growing louder and faster that suddenly drift off. Their music leaves you empty but it’s a good thing.

Unbelievable truth makes you want to feel and jump and ask for more- to just be lingering, to be waiting. In that discomfort that the music creates, there is beauty. The whole album does that sort of thing. “Forget about me” does it in a more drawn out way with a slow and stretching melody. It makes you want more notes, more words in every instance- it just makes you ache. Again and again it refrains “Forget, Forget about me”, but you just can’t forget about that sound. Unbelievable Truth is like an addiction, once you’ve heard them you have to feel that ache.