NO APOLOGIES

Despite having a clearly identifiable and unique sound, The Unbelievable Truth are still finding it hard to live down Radiohead comparisons. But the constant comparisons have nothing to do with the music for vocalist Andy Yorke is none other than Radiohead Thom's brother!

"Unless we put a techno beat behind us and maybe start chanting, or something that drastic, then people are always going to talk about us in terms of how similar or dissimilar we are to Radiohead," yawns the singer, understandably fed up with the line of questioning.
Taking their name from a film by cult US movie-make Hal Hartley, the trio scored chart success with their 1998 Almost Here album, but suddenly found themselves label-less this year after Virgin couldn't hear any obvious hit singles on it's follow-up, the now independently released 'Sorrythankyou'.
"Radio tends towards playing the stuff that sounds average, and with 'Sorrythankyou' we were trying to do something that wasn't average, to create an atmosphere that you don't usually hear on records," explains band producer and multi-instrumentalist Nigel Powell.
"And that's not what radio likes with guitar bands, they want something that's clear, that you can sing along to and isn't really edgy, and isn't going to worry people.
"I think there was a sense of trying to push each song out to it's furthest possible point which maybe didn't happen on the first album where all the songs have a fairly cohesive feel," he continues.
"But this time if a song seemed to want to turn into heavy metal, we'd let it go that way."
Bassist Jason Moulster agrees: "With this album, we were pushing out the boat a bit. It's something more than the last one. We wanted to try and be out on a limb, and I think that's worked out.
"When we were dropped from Virgin, we weren't that confident that it would come out, so it was a very good thing that they gave us it. We knew that if it was ours, we would release it as we had so much faith in it."
Dave Freak, July 2000