Blindside – The Great Depression

Description

The Great Depression is the fifth studio album by the Swedish hard rock band Blindside, released on DRT Entertainment in ‎2005. The album was recorded and mixed by Lasse Mårtén at Decibel Studios in Stockholm, Sweden; with Mårtén and the band producing. Addition engineering and Protools editing by band member Marcus Dahlström. Additional editing by Jonatan “Vespan” Permert and Stefan “Leffe” Olsson. All songs written by the band.

Blindside features Christian Lindskog on lead vocals; Simon Grenehed on guitar, pedal organ, and background vocals; Tomas Näslund on bass; and Marcus Dahlström on drums, percussion, and piano (as well providing programming). The album also features guest musicians Kristian Persson on trombone (track 4); J. Jämte on background vocals (track 10); Ilkka Viitasalo of Benea Reach and Selfmindead fame on background vocals and Lasse Mårtén on piano (track 12); and Hampus Nordgren on double bass (track 13).

This is the best work the Swedish hard rockers have done for years. While their previous albums have veered between harsh hardcore and Linkin Park styled pop, this album defies easy pigeon holing. On highlight track, «This Is A Heart-Attack», there is screaming, but there is also a funky riff that is more Queens Of The Stone Age than «King Of The Closet» (the big hit from their second album, ‘A Thought Crushed My Mind‘). «We’re All Gonna Die» is a similarly rock ‘n’ roll anthem against dangerous excess, while the similarly styled but slower tempoed «Bleeding Under Your Eyelids» must have some of the most beautiful closing moments of any rock song ever recorded. There’s heaviness aplenty, but mixed with complexity of rhythm, lyrics and style. The slower tracks are just as good, permeated with a wisdom, honesty and intimacy one can only call deeply spiritual. Overtly Christian but not simplistic, unafraid to be heavy and break the mould, ‘The Great Depression’ makes many other Christian albums seem shallow and simplistic. [Jonathan Langley, Cross Rhythms, March 2006]

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CD tracklist:

01. The Great Depression
02. This Is A Heart Attack
03. Ask Me Now
04. We’re All Going To Die
05. Yamkela
06. Put Back The Stars
07. Fell In Love With The Game
08. City Lights
09. We Are To Follow
10. You Must Be Bleeding Under Your Eyelids
11. My Alibi
12. Come To Rest (Hesychia)
13. This Time
14. When I Remember