Release Date: 20 August, 2002
Audio CD
Tracks
- Caught a Glimpse
- Pitiful
- Sleepwalking
- Cute Boring Love
- Endings
- You Can Hide It
- Thought Like Flames
- Time Will Change Your Heart
- Painting
- Midnight
- Coming Back to Life
- She Shut Your Eyes
- Silence
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Rating 4.5
Silence speaks louder than everAfter A Thought Crushed My Mind(blindside's second release)'s brazen hardcore screaming and guitars, Silence saw them maturing in huge ways, and opting for a more melodic (yet without watering down anything) and modern rock-ish feel. Christian's vocals have improved drastically, both in the scream department and singing.
1. *Caught a Glimpse* (10/10) A kick butt way to start off an awesome album. Starts with a soft intro, then explodes into a huge melodic hardcore sympathy, with Christian's vocals fading from singing to screaming.
2. *Pitiful* (10/10) My all-time favorite song, the catchy riffs and angst ridden lyrics tell it all. Christian displays so much emotion it's just crazy.
3. *Sleepwalking* (10/10) One word. Haunting. Crazy hardcore riffing here, almost breakdown-ish with the chug-chug-wee-wee-wee of the verse. The chorus is haunting, and the bridge is chaotic.
4. *Cute Boring Love* (7/10) The post-hardcore ranting lets up here for some good modern rock.
5. *The Endings* (7/10) Another anthemic modern rock track.
6. *You can Hide it* (7/10)
7. *Thought Like Flames* (10/10) This song displays the raw emotion that makes me love Blindside so much. I think it's written about a friend of Christian's, and is generally about self mutilation. Beautiful.
8. *Time Will Change Your Heart* (10/10) This song is a glimpse into Blindside's past. It rocks extremely hard, screaming and heavy verses with a melodic yet heavy chorus.
9. *Painting* (8/10) Once again I think about Christian's friend. Awesome song with amazing hooks.
10. *Midnight* (9/10) One of the only mellow tracks, yet the lyrics are brilliantly written and it has a very eerie feel to it, creating the "midnight-ish" atmosphere.
11. *Coming Back to Life* (5/10) I don't really feel this track, it's got a really nu-metal sound to it. Also very short.
12. *She Shut Your Eyes* (7/10) Brilliantly written on Christian's part.
13. *Silence* (10/10) Finally the title track comes to us, and instead of another guitar onslaught, we get an acoustic, seemingly under produced masterpiece. The sound of a heartbeat (made by Simon tapping on his guitar) resounds, with Christian's broken crooning echoing throughout the song, raw emotion resounds.Fine Swedish Import.There's nothing too original or innovative about this release from Swedish hardcore punk band Blindside, but originality and innovation aren't what they're going for. They're going for no-holds-barred rocking to the MAX, and they definitely accomplish that here.
The first song, "Caught a Glimpse" starts things off strongly with hard guitars and a haunting chorus, and is followed up by the single "Pitiful", another very loud song about Jesus. You'll find that these guys sing about Jesus a lot. The next few songs all continue the trend set by the previous tracks, but the pattern is broken up by "Thoughts Like Flames," a slower song, which still has a loud chorus.
The next track, "Time Will Change Your Heart" is another good one, matching a fast-paced, screaming verse with a slower and calmer chorus. The following four songs are sort of a dip in the album. None of them are bad, they just don't stand out from each other and you may find yourself losing interest. The final song, "Silence" is another good one, totally breaking from Blindside's norm in a slow, soft, well-sung capper to a solid hard rock album.
Silence will probably not amaze you if you seek truly deep meaning, complex layering and composition, or natural-sounding English lyrics (they ARE from Sweden), but it is a well-played, well-executed album of its type.Buy This CDthis is an awesome CD by Blindside you need to buy it if you already haven't |
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