This Day And Age

 

This Day And Age are another one of my favourite bands, but unfortunately one that are no longer together.  

They were active I believe between the years of 2001 and 2006.  They had a couple of really amazing albums, my favourite of which being the second album entitled "The Bell And The Hammer".  

The song from this album with the same name remains my all time favourite song by any band, ever (despite the band themselves not actually being one of my all time favorites).  It's a very emotionally charged song, which whilst also conveying feelings of loneliness at times ("I should run away but I can't, chasing dreams that are slowing down for me")  seems to also manage to really lift me when I listen with it's intelligent use of dynamics and harmonies.  

The song is just fantastically composed, and it's such a shame it hasn't had far more media attention (even now it would stack up against anything else out there I feel).

I'm not entirely sure what the singer is doing these days, but I believe the rest of them (or nearly all the rest of them at least) are now in the band The Reign of Kindo.  I am not anywhere near as keen on Kindo as I was with This Day, but they are OK.  Very different type of band...more experiemental I would say, and still highly worth checking out.