The first time I heard The Tins, I immediately wondered how these guys escaped my admittedly specific, yet relatively sharp musical radar. Then, as I am wont to do, I started trying to compare them to other bands and the band I settled on was Band of Horses. Pitchfork once suggested that Ben Bridwell has a honeypot in his throat – allow me to steal that and use it to describe the way lead vocalist Adam Putzer sounds on most of the tracks on their debut LP, Life's A Gas. I guess the similarities with Band of Horses pretty much end there; Band of Horses has developed a tendency recently to get very slow and mellow with things, while The Tins give off more of a progressive, experimental, get-up-and-dance-right-now vibe that I’d imagine would translate into an energetic, possibly wild live set.