Your New Music Weekly: "Thick as Thieves" by The Temper Trap (2016)

Song of the Day for September 30th, 2010: "Rest" by The Temper Trap

And the song of the day is....Rest by the Temper Trap. I heard this song being played on a diet coke commercial yesterday, kind of strange, but I guess that's how it goes in the music biz. The Temper Trap are an alternative-rock band from Melbourne Australia, yet another Melbourne based band that is up and coming in a big way. No doubt that this album, titled Conditions (released in June or 2009) was a great one, but I just find it interesting to see which bands make it big and end up getting press and which ones don't despite being just as good if not better. The album reached #175 on the Billboard Top 200 albums in 2009, and it peaked at #25 on the UK Albums Chart. Now generally I like to post songs and bands that aren't all that well known, but I have to give props to Melbourne bands as I lived there for 2 years and heard heaps of amazing music, and have managed to stay somewhat connected thanks to Triple J online radio. That said, enjoy the song and definitely take some time out to check out the whole album. Also, one quick note, the song doesn't actually start up til about 15 seconds into it, so if audio doesn't seem to working its because there is a pause at the beginning of this track.

VJ Samsonite's "Hot New Music" song of the day is....

... a song called Fader by Aussie rock band The Temper Trap. The Temper Trap hails at us out of Melbourne, Victoria (heaps of great new artists coming out of Melbs and Sydney lately), and delivers to us its own brand of "atmospheric sound" (as wikipedia suggests). This song comes off of their Conditions album, which was released in June of 2009. Lots of good new music came out in 2009 aye? Hope you didn't miss out on it! Not much else to say about them, so look them up if you want more info, woot!