Time Is A Thief

Time Is A Thief

Genres: modern rock, alternative rock, post-rock, rock, under 2000 listeners

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About Time Is A Thief

As everyone knows, the best superheroes have a killer origin story – the reason Superman’s a bit lame is because he was born special rather than watching his parents get gunned down or something – but we live in a time when we don’t need superheroes. We need normal people to just… be cool to each other. Cork’s Time Is A Thief have a terrible origin story because they aren’t superheroes. Four mates from the local scene who served time in various outfits before coming together to form a new band: it’s a tale that’s been told a million times over in a million towns… but the most important thing isn’t how they got together, it’s what they’ve done since. Their debut album ‘We’re Not Strangers’ is a confident, exhilarating and thoroughly modern take on rock, taking in influences from the likes of Billy Talent, Twin Atlantic, Biffy Clyro and Alexisonfire and spitting them out in a way that suggests their years spent on the road around their native Ireland have paid off, and in some style. “We’ve definitely tried to tear down the bullshit when it comes to our music We have no egos – it’s important for us to just get our music out there.” “We were all friends before any of us picked up instruments; we have this understanding of each other, and it helped us gel much quicker.” Having formed in 2007, the band released the ‘Conversations’ EP in 2009 and followed it up a year later with the slicker ‘Identity’ EP. They soon gained a reputation as road warriors, and when 2011 rolled around, Time Is A Thief started writing their third EP but rapidly hit a creative hot streak with producer Ciaran O’Shea and came out with the 11 tracks that comprise ‘We’re Not Strangers’. On its release, thanks to all the groundwork the band had done, they cracked the Top 20 Irish Indie Chart – no mean feat for an entirely DIY outfit. “We’re trying to bring some of the simplicity back to rock, and that’s something that was very much part of the recording. We’re only a one-guitar band, so we really made sure that the record made it sound like there was only one guitar on the track. Jimmy could have overdubbed it ‘til the cows came home, but when we play live we would not have been able to reproduce it.” So they weren’t born with special powers, but Time Is A Thief don’t need them. They’ve got ‘We’re Not Strangers’. Ben Patashnik Editor, Rock Sound

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