Conditions

Every now and then you come across a new band that stands apart from the rest. A band whose songwriting belies their inexperience, a singer whose range and brilliance at once captivates and enfolds, or an energy that is impossible to ignore. Melbourne's The Temper Trap may just be that band.

Conditions is a collection of songs equally ambitious as bold and crucially in the modern era, each song truly demands shared billing. From the soaring "Down River," resplendent with strings, horns and choirs to the spine- tingling "Soldier On," the tribal percussive beat of live favorite "Drum Song" and transcendent "Love Lost," which somehow wields the common ground between neo-soul and wide-screen alternative rock.