Countless Thousands

The Countless Thousands are an indie rock group from California. Danger Van Gorder is lead singer and plays guitar, Davey Munch is bass guitarist and Jon David handles the drums. The Band have released their debut album “We're Just Really Excited To Be Here” and here on Ascrono we have a review of the album.

The Album begins with “Overture” The fast paced intro is very exciting to listen to and the vocals fit in well with the heavy guitar. “Fickle” has a fast feel as the drum beat moves the song along,The vocals play a bigger part than the previous song and the “Duet” between the male and female voice is nice to listen to. “The Chemical Exchange” has a complicated polyphonic guitar intro and at this point I must credit the guitar sections as they are really impressive to listen to. “Minor Sounds Of Inconvenience” is much gentler than the past songs and everything seems toned down a little. However the overall result is still a good quality song and worth a listen. In “The Asskickers Union”

Acoustic Guitar features and you notice how good the vocals are, previously they had to compete with the vibrant guitar sections but in this one the guitar accompanies a more and then end result is very nice. “A Pirates Shanty” has a soft intro but soon builds up to a steady enjoyable song. This was my personal favourite as the song sounded at ease with itself and more complete sounding. “Too Close To Call” is lively and full of detail and also has a rather catchy accompaniment. In the “Prom Song” everything is much more mellow and the lyrics flow nicely, making the song smooth and pleasant to listen to. “The Patriot” has an exciting but tense atmosphere and the emotional sounding lyrics really help get the singers feelings across about war. “Three Hours Sleep” is a lot more aggressive sounding compared to the previous songs and in “Our Queen, Complacence” the aggressive feeling continue along with a nice bass melody. “No Contest” was one of my favourites as the intrument parts were mimicked by voices, I thought this was a clever idea which isn't done very often and also shows the potential range of the band. “The Devil And Davey Munch” has a menacing intro and a much more traditional rock sounding set up. The guitar parts were good to listen to. “Thanks For The Cock Fosters” is quite contrasting to “The Devil And Davey Munch” its much more relaxed and the lyrics are much more emotional and its a good song to end the album with. There was one more track however called “Danger Struggles With A Bottle Of Organic Honey” which was pretty random but funny to listen to.

Overall this is a fantastic debut album, There was a good range of lyrical subjects which made the album more inviting, however I felt a few songs in the album sounded too much like the same thing. The songs nearing the end showed a lot of potential in the different styles and ideas that were produced and in future albums I would love to listen to albums full of songs with variation like that.