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"Bristol's Thought Forms' 2016 album Songs About Drowning was a trudging march into the dark, menacing corridors of alternative guitar music. With facets of prog, doom, shoegaze and post-rock the four-piece craft atmospheric, gloomy cuts that are utterly satisfying and realised. Charlie Romijn carries the performance, veering in and out amid the menacing pianos and fuzzed up guitars and bass."
- The Quietus
"Songs About Drowning comes as close to a perfect ten as can be bestowed on any release that hasn’t stood a test of time or without making allowance for even the faintest prospect of improvement. On this showing it’s hard to see how they, or anyone else, are going to better this any time soon. Bets may now be off for album of the year."
- Terrascope
"Songs About Drowning is an album that bursts at the seams with musical ideas, evocative lyrical imagery and outstanding musicianship.
This album is their most cohesive yet. The production by Barr aids this as he helps create a Southern Gothic atmosphere that perfectly suits the songs whether that be on the eerily beautiful Inland which dips its toe into the murky water of Polly’s To Bring You My Love and brings it screaming into 2016 on a funeral bass riff and soaring guitars, or the post-blues majesty of closing track The Lake which slowly changes tempo until it ends up a speed-demon rocker before taken us back down to the swamp again… Songs About Drowning is where Thought Forms go from being a really good band into one of our finest. It is a complete work that plays like a noir novel full of lucid imagery and unsettling sounds yet remains warm and inclusive never once compromising. This is Thought Forms at their brave, single-minded best."
- Louder Than War (9/10)
"Forget My Name" certainly teases a quietly vicious side to Thought Forms, with silvery layers of noise weaving between gorgeous vocal harmonies.
- The Line Of Best Fit
"Thought Forms have everything going for them. Having attracted a following due to the intensity of their dark drone-rock, there are moments where the album rises to the surface; namely, Charlie Romijn’s vocals on The Bridge and slow-paced, jazzy number Aeaea, where a clever brass arrangement collapses into a sea of distortion. There are also powerful lyrics here (“your name is written on the inside of my eyes”) which leave a heavy imprint in the listener’s mind, while tracks like Inland demonstrate a clever grasp of dynamics that make you feel like you’re in a half-conscious state of delirium."
- Crack Magazine
"Thought Forms have spent twelve years burrowing themselves into the darker enclaves of Bristol’s live music scene, recruiting some of its more prominent names along the way... If there’s one note of high praise to sound about Songs About Drowning, the band’s third album, it’s that their own brand of pitch-black cool has taken a step closer to the aesthetic sensibilities of their mentors... “Forget My Name” boasts the band’s most satisfying chorus to date, all pristine backing vocals and sparkling guitar parts, a leaf out of Cocteau Twins’ path to ascension."
- Drunken Werewolf
"If you like your guitars scuzzy, your arrangements woozy and your vocals soothing, you’re in for a treat."
- CLRVYNT
"It’s their most accomplished statement yet, one which manages to sound more refined and grown up while still packing a mean punch to an exposed aural solar plexus. It’s difficult to overstate how good an album this is - you’d be hard pressed to pick a better album all year."
- Soundblab
"If there is one album you need to buy this year, it's Thought Forms' third album, Songs About Drowning. It's just sublime...
There is so much heart and soul in this album it is impossible not to be moved to tears and to want to crawl inside the music and live through the lyrics again and again."
- From The Inside
"Thought Forms release their most confident album yet, resonant with dark lyrical imagery. Hoisting it up a notch since Ghost Mountain, their newest cinematic, intoxicating release sets in stone their accomplished tone, and hits home that we are only yet to hear more definitive sounds from this four piece. Cohesively dark and beguiling, with the production of Barr there is an atmosphere weaving throughout this record which holds together tracks such as the seemingly vicious Forget My Name and the more progressive By The Stars. Taking risks, yet holding tight, allowing for improvisation, yet pulling it back from chaos, this is an album which reminds us that these four are here to stay and spellbind."
- Fountain Review
Expanding on their fondness for exploratory post-rock/noise/shoegaze sounds, the album's opening track 'Forget My Name' exhibits a more streamlined, melodic side to the Thought Forms sound, casting an atmospheric spell with its entrancing harmonies.
- RW/FF
Forthcoming third album Songs About Drowning looks set to confirm them as one of the UK's leading exponents of guitar noise.
- Bristol 24/7
- The Quietus
"Songs About Drowning comes as close to a perfect ten as can be bestowed on any release that hasn’t stood a test of time or without making allowance for even the faintest prospect of improvement. On this showing it’s hard to see how they, or anyone else, are going to better this any time soon. Bets may now be off for album of the year."
- Terrascope
"Songs About Drowning is an album that bursts at the seams with musical ideas, evocative lyrical imagery and outstanding musicianship.
This album is their most cohesive yet. The production by Barr aids this as he helps create a Southern Gothic atmosphere that perfectly suits the songs whether that be on the eerily beautiful Inland which dips its toe into the murky water of Polly’s To Bring You My Love and brings it screaming into 2016 on a funeral bass riff and soaring guitars, or the post-blues majesty of closing track The Lake which slowly changes tempo until it ends up a speed-demon rocker before taken us back down to the swamp again… Songs About Drowning is where Thought Forms go from being a really good band into one of our finest. It is a complete work that plays like a noir novel full of lucid imagery and unsettling sounds yet remains warm and inclusive never once compromising. This is Thought Forms at their brave, single-minded best."
- Louder Than War (9/10)
"Forget My Name" certainly teases a quietly vicious side to Thought Forms, with silvery layers of noise weaving between gorgeous vocal harmonies.
- The Line Of Best Fit
"Thought Forms have everything going for them. Having attracted a following due to the intensity of their dark drone-rock, there are moments where the album rises to the surface; namely, Charlie Romijn’s vocals on The Bridge and slow-paced, jazzy number Aeaea, where a clever brass arrangement collapses into a sea of distortion. There are also powerful lyrics here (“your name is written on the inside of my eyes”) which leave a heavy imprint in the listener’s mind, while tracks like Inland demonstrate a clever grasp of dynamics that make you feel like you’re in a half-conscious state of delirium."
- Crack Magazine
"Thought Forms have spent twelve years burrowing themselves into the darker enclaves of Bristol’s live music scene, recruiting some of its more prominent names along the way... If there’s one note of high praise to sound about Songs About Drowning, the band’s third album, it’s that their own brand of pitch-black cool has taken a step closer to the aesthetic sensibilities of their mentors... “Forget My Name” boasts the band’s most satisfying chorus to date, all pristine backing vocals and sparkling guitar parts, a leaf out of Cocteau Twins’ path to ascension."
- Drunken Werewolf
"If you like your guitars scuzzy, your arrangements woozy and your vocals soothing, you’re in for a treat."
- CLRVYNT
"It’s their most accomplished statement yet, one which manages to sound more refined and grown up while still packing a mean punch to an exposed aural solar plexus. It’s difficult to overstate how good an album this is - you’d be hard pressed to pick a better album all year."
- Soundblab
"If there is one album you need to buy this year, it's Thought Forms' third album, Songs About Drowning. It's just sublime...
There is so much heart and soul in this album it is impossible not to be moved to tears and to want to crawl inside the music and live through the lyrics again and again."
- From The Inside
"Thought Forms release their most confident album yet, resonant with dark lyrical imagery. Hoisting it up a notch since Ghost Mountain, their newest cinematic, intoxicating release sets in stone their accomplished tone, and hits home that we are only yet to hear more definitive sounds from this four piece. Cohesively dark and beguiling, with the production of Barr there is an atmosphere weaving throughout this record which holds together tracks such as the seemingly vicious Forget My Name and the more progressive By The Stars. Taking risks, yet holding tight, allowing for improvisation, yet pulling it back from chaos, this is an album which reminds us that these four are here to stay and spellbind."
- Fountain Review
Expanding on their fondness for exploratory post-rock/noise/shoegaze sounds, the album's opening track 'Forget My Name' exhibits a more streamlined, melodic side to the Thought Forms sound, casting an atmospheric spell with its entrancing harmonies.
- RW/FF
Forthcoming third album Songs About Drowning looks set to confirm them as one of the UK's leading exponents of guitar noise.
- Bristol 24/7