While I m writing this review I m listening to that wonderfull CD again.Like their debut album "Half life", "The way we live now" is a great experience that everybody who likes pop music should live.I was trusting,I m not disappointed.Thanks.
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Unprepossessing white boys who happen to be multi-instrumentalist genii of a lyrical bent being very much the thing nowadays, here's another little essential. Less baroque than Patrick Wolf and less knowingly smart than Bright Eyes, it's still charming and beguiling and full of swoon and sigh.
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'Electricity' is something of a charged up baby and sees Closs revving up the amps phasing the vocals for a spiky slice of sub three minute punk pop, effervescently adorable and fuzz-tastically adopting a trumpet to the cause towards the close - cool - you better believe it. 'Promised Land' what can we say, the sound of Christmas in April, strange as it may seem it casts a nostalgic glint that hits you right here, no not there, here. This shimmering tour de force epic incorporates vague traces of finely cut 70's MOR and splices it with a colourful sun bathed Gaelic sheen to leave you speechless, drained and begging for more. This divisive cutie hits you as though an invisible hand has reached inside your innards and squeezed your pips so tightly that tears are flowing from your ears - a much needed lesson in tranquil and sensitively toned song craft amid the blur of a tomorrow today society. Perfect.
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This "band" seems to be becoming quite a firm favourite amongst the Atomicduster staff of late, so we're approaching this one with 
trembling fingers...
T: Completely rivetting, as is always the case with Tim Closs. I don't know what else to say about it - it's innovative, it brings a tear to your eye at times, and the rest of the time you feel as though you're grabbing closely at the sidegrip of a white knuckle ride. Astonishing, sublime, beautiful: all those words still can't sum up just how much of a national treasure Tears In X-Ray Eyes 
are. If you don't agree to give this ten out of ten I'm going to punch you on the nose...
N: Right. It's not surprising this artist has become somewhat of a, how did you put it?, "a firm favourite". This is the shining star on top of the Christmas tree (no pun intended, Anthony). An album's worth of content that screams "brilliant". Well paced, and collectively superb - this should be shown to all who come after exactly how an album should be made. And as for my nose, it'd make no difference even if you did - 10 is no less than this deserves. 10/10
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