Caution:Thieves - The Sun of Another World

God, space is cool. It’s not just about the close to infinite possibilities of a potentially blank slate of a universe, or its manifestation of humanity’s desire to never be satisfied (in a good, exploratory, non-billionaire way); it’s the vast enormity of it all. You look up at the night sky, knowing that the section you can see is a fraction of a grain of sand. That every eye on Earth can put all their sections together and see less than a percent of a percent of a percent of it all, even if they all looked at once. That there’s nothing so big as everything else out there is a humbling thought. Also, moons and shit, you know?

Caution:Thieves, in addition to having a band name that makes it really difficult to name a Word document with it in, also love themselves a bit of the ol’ off-world. The Australian post-hardcore outfit have boldly gone where many have gone before where space-related concept albums are concerned, I’ll grant you. But there’s an urgency to it, something you don’t find in Floyd’s ruminations or Cambria’s fifteen-volume deep lore backstory that stands out in and amongst the daydreamers and lollygaggers. Caution:Thieves are jettisoning themselves skyward and, thankfully, there’s very little you or I can do to stop them, lest you want to risk a five-piece band-shaped hole in your sternum.

Of course, all of this daftness pales in the face of the fact that we’ll be dust on a solar wind in five billion years, so why not enjoy some music to pass the time until then? The Sun of Another World is a piece of post-hardcore wish fulfilment to kick some much needed energy into the end of your week. It ain’t rocket science; fill your boots, your ears, maybe even your mouth if you’ve got a particularly small pair of wireless headphones. For medical reasons, we obviously can’t advise that, so please keep your headphones in the holes they were designed for. Or don’t. This is a Rock Song of the Week article, not a cop.