Thousand Foot Krutch – The End Is Where We Begin (First Impressions Review)

Thousand Foot Krutch – The End Is Where We Begin

Releases Independently April 17th 2012

First Impressions Review By Tyler Hess

Some things are too exciting to shut up about, so when I was able to listen to Thousand Foot Krutch’s brand new album “The End Is Where We Begin” weeks in advance I had to share a little bit because April 17th is too far away. Our staff will have more opinions on this closer to release date, but I thought I’d share a few of mine while we wait for the release date to come around.

After having one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns to date, Thousand Foot Krutch is releasing their first independent album since “That’s What People Do” way back in 1997! Although I’ll get a bit wordier in a moment, I think long time fans can rest assured that they are still the same band and the production level is just as high as ever.

I don’t want to give too much away, so I’ll try to keep this as short and simple as my fingers will allow me. The album kicks off with a computerized intro track, before breaking things down into some serious rock with “We Are”, showing that the gritty guitars and vocal sonics are as present as they’ve ever been.

“Light Up The Sky” follows with an old school TFK sound with some of that funky rap rock nu metal that the music veterans are still remembered for after all these years. Then there’s the title track, possibly the catchiest/poppiest rock song on the album. If you want a sweet ballad, then skip ahead to the beautiful “Be Somebody”

Then there’s what amounts to be a short intermission of sorts with “This Is A Warning (Intro)” to bring us to the second half of the album with another rock song in “Courtesy Call” and the song that you may have gotten free for a limited time on NoiseTrade a couple months ago called “War of Change”.

The End Is Where We Begin may be the most diverse display of talent we’ve heard from Thousand Foot Krutch, even including an acoustic track with “So Far Gone”. I don’t want to spoil too much more for you all just yet, but this feels like a natural progression from Welcome To The Masquerade and a solid effort for the newly independent band.

Thematically there is definite overtones of encouragement in areas of evangelism with thoughts of being the light of the world that could be considered a continuation of the idea behind their song “What Do We Know?” from The Flame In All Of Us.

We will have much more on this album in the coming weeks, but here’s a short taste of what is to come, make sure to keep coming back here as we report on the latest happenings with this release

Track listing:

1. The Introduction
2. We Are
3. Light Up The Sky
4. The End Is Where We Begin
5. Let The Sparks Fly
6. I Get Wicked
7. Be Somebody
8. This Is A Warning (Intro)
9. Courtesy Call
10. War Of Change
11. Down
12. All I Need Now
13. Fly On The Wall
14. So Far Gone
15. Outroduction

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