The Optimist

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Ward, Christian (5 March 2001). "Turin Brakes: The Optimist LP". NME. ISSN 0028-6362. Archived from the original on 26 March 2013 . Retrieved 5 January 2019. For now, this more than suffices. Coming up as the night comes down, coming down as the lights go up – and then when it’s all over, there’s ‘The Optimist LP’. It’s one of [I]those[/I] albums. Costa, Maddy (31 March 2001). "Turin Brakes: The Optimist (Source)". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 January 2019. On 6 September 2012, all four Turin Brakes members played at a "Spirit of Talk Talk" evening at 229 Great Portland Street where they joined some former members of Talk Talk to play a few hits including It's My Life, with the band then playing a set of their own afterwards. Before playing the song "Painkiller" Gale announced to the audience that although it wouldn't be obvious to most people the song was heavily influenced by Talk Talk and by the work they did with producer Phill Brown in the Kent countryside some years ago.

The song "The Optimist" ends at 3:25. After 2 minutes of silence, at 5:25 the hidden song "Three Days Old" begins.Discography [ edit ] Studio albums [ edit ] List of albums, with selected details and chart positions The band spent the first half of 2006 writing new songs, occasionally performing both new and old work at small gigs across the UK. The band did an intimate tour in November 2006 to try out new material. In January 2007 the band entered a recording studio in London to record their fourth album with producer Ethan Johns. After three weeks the band took a break (on 29 January Paridjanian's wife gave birth to a daughter), but the sessions were resumed several weeks later in a bigger studio (also in London). On the last day of March 2007 the band announced that they had finished the recording sessions, and recorded 17 songs. No Division’ EP barely 18 months ago. On the album, they’re sharper, more focused, but it’s still an emotionally exhausting ride. Olly is blessed with a voice which can harshly twang and softly croon, often simultaneously, can register naivety and crushing world-weariness in the same phrase. The nuance of the line “making me breathe again” in stand-out ‘Emergency 72’ is enough to break your heart. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDFed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.285.

In 2014, the band played the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas and toured the United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland and the Netherlands. In 2015, the band started work on their seventh studio album.TURIN BRAKES INTERVIEW – OLLY KNIGHTS TALKS ABOUT NEW ALBUM "LOST PROPERTY" ". Record Rewind Play. Archived from the original on 12 November 2015 . Retrieved 3 November 2015.

Following the success and stress of Ether Song, the band took a short break, but not before touring Australia and New Zealand and releasing a DJ mix album for Azuli Records' Late Night Tales series in February 2004. The mix album (2004) was a collection of some of their favourite songs and main influences, and also contained The Rolling Stones song "Moonlight Mile" as a cover. The band have done some DJ sets in the London area over the years.Knights, Olly. "Guest Post: The changing face of music videos. Philip Bloom". Philipbloom.net. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012 . Retrieved 13 November 2012. Browne, David (30 April 2001). " The Optimist LP". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019 . Retrieved 5 January 2019. It’s moments like that which endear you to Turin Brakes. The gentle strings in ‘Feeling Oblivion’. The gorgeous chime of Paradganian’s slide guitar on ‘The Door’. The desperate, claustrophobic descending melody of ‘Future Boy’. It’s like dustbowl folk music refracted through inner-city noise, bluesy, intimate comedown sounds invested with a surreal energy. a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.569. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. Knights, Olly. "If Not Now When". Etch Shop. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012 . Retrieved 13 November 2012.