From Life To Me

The Temple of Thought



Of late, Facebook has been full of it and we have all been sharing whatever we could find about it. It being the latest album from Poets of the Fall entitled (aptly if I might add) “Temple of Thought”. It has finally released here and I got meself a copy (well took it off a friend if you must know)


Poets of the Fall are one of the many bands in my vast library of songs and they are one of the bands I listen to almost daily. Their last offering “Twilight Theater” was their best album in my opinion but that all changed in the sixty odd minutes I spent within their Temple of Thought.


The album is primarily love songs, but that is all that the tracks have in common. Each song is RADICALLY different from it’s predecessor. Take the first track “Running out of Time”- brilliant riffs, a pure rock track; then the title track which starts softly and then escalates into a blend of drums and guitars, leaving you breathless. The track “Skin” is soft too but throughout and fills you with a deep sadness; which is dispelled by the time you get to the last track “The Happy Song”. In between, are “Cradled in Love” and “Morning Tide” and “The Ballad of Jeremiah Peacekeeper”, which are again all different. I think that the band took the four letter word “LOVE” and stripped it bare and the end product is this album; adding to it that secret spice that marks it as a POTF production. Speaking of which, there are a few things worth mentioning here- the drums are back in town as each track has a definitive session of drumming. The music has also undergone an enormous transgression and is hardcore and in your face at times yet mellow and soothing at others…it’s kind of like a symphony, a flawless union of music and lyrics.


The album makes you feel a number of emotions- greed, fear, hopelessness, lust, anger, pride, envy…you name it! It lifts you up to the zenith then slams you straight to nadir, it plays with you and rewards you. In short it has done it all, yet when the last song ends, you are craving for more.


As for me, well I now join the guys who have heard “Temple of Thought” and are now waiting patiently for Saaresto and his boys to cook up another storm…….and to help me wait, I am taking another trip deep into the “Temple of Thought”.