We’ve got something striking to launch us into the weekend this Friday. It’s ‘Story Told Wrong’, the gripping, moody and melodic fusion of indie-pop and alt-rock from Tim Gambles. The Tasmanian-born, Australia-based artist linked up with a fellow songwriter who through a shared process of experimentation, landed on this powerful new sound.
As Gambles reflects: “We stripped it back, reworked the structure, and then brought it to the band, and it naturally evolved into something way more ‘me’ […] It’s a track about miscommunication, hindsight, and the way stories get twisted, whether in relationships or in your own memory.'”
Eschewing an earlier EDM style, this swaggering pop-rock number mirrors the intensity, complexity and vivacity of the human condition with a matrix of fiery guitar riffs, rich bass-lines and driving percussion. Gambles‘ brooding, Alex Turner-esque vocals simmer with bittersweet reflection as he considers how narratives can be twisted and reshaped over time; after all, our memory is our own unreliable narrator. Those pent-up emotions burst into a cathartic chorus, whose rhythmic line, “love, hate, lose control”, will be stuck in your head all weekend
The accompanying video undeniably adds to that sense of distortion, in which our songwriter performs to an almost empty pub while the anti-hero stumbles around in a chaotic haze of grandiosity and booze. It’s playful, authentic and packed full of bold moves.
‘Story Told Wrong’ takes Tim Gambles‘ live performance repertoire from the stage to the song, proving that he’s one artist who won’t be confined.
You can also listen to ‘Story Told Wrong’ in our Indie Rockers playlist.
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