Blues Pills (Album)
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July 25, 2014 |
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10 |
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42 min 41 s |
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Blues Pills is the first studio album by the Swedish blues rock band of the same name . It was released on July 25, 2014 via Nuclear Blast and reached number four on the German album charts.
Emergence
The recording process for the band's first studio album took several months. There were two reasons for this. On the one hand, the musicians had to postpone their studio appointments after their concert dates, as they went on tour more often than planned. On the other hand, the band really wanted to work with producer Don Alsterberg, who, in addition to his work as a producer, was on tour with other bands as a sound engineer .
“When we heard his Graveyard works for the first time, it was clear to us: Either he or nobody! So we penetrated the object of our desire for over a year with calls and emails until we finally had the long-awaited commitment in our pockets. "
The album was recorded and mixed completely analogue and without the help of computers . Guitar , bass and drums were recorded live. Later, more guitar tracks and vocals were overdubbed . For the songs High Class Woman , Gypsy and No Hope Left for Me were music videos rotated. The album cover was designed by Marijke Koger-Dunham. Bassist Zack Anderson interpreted the motive in an interview as the balance of life.
“It takes up the concept of yin and yang , the duality of nature. Darkness and light, sun and moon, life and death. "
background
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Many songs on the album have already been released on previous EPs and rearranged for the album. Ain't No Change is an adaptation of the originally instrumental song Mind Exit . Singer Elin Larsson stated in an interview that she hadn't come up with a text for years. Jupiter is based on the song Bliss . While the text by Bliss was written in Swedish , Jupiter has an English text.
The song Devil Man was previously released on the EPs Bliss and Devil Man . The song is about the nemesis , an opponent who makes life difficult for another person. River was still called The River on the EP Devil Man and was influenced by the songs of the black slaves in the US southern states . According to Elin Larsson, the point is that everyone should look for themselves and the questions in life. High class woman criticizes the unjust distribution of money in the world.
With Gypsy , the album contains a cover version of a song by Chubby Checker . The musicians previously played the song several times at sound checks before concerts, and later the song was added to the setlist . The limited version of the album includes a bonus DVD showing the performance of Blues Pills at the Hammer of Doom music festival in Würzburg in 2013.
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Reviews
Blues Pills was named album of the month by German magazine Rock Hard . Boris Kaiser highlighted Larsson's singing and Sorriaux's guitar playing and described the "more reserved songs like River or No Hope Left for Me as masters' letters that the band could also make really successful in the mainstream ". Kaiser awarded nine out of ten points. According to Markus Endres from the online magazine Metal.de , Blues Pills "manage to sound so fascinatingly authentically like the seventies on their outstanding debut album that hardly any other band can". Since "these pills are addicting", Endres awarded nine out of ten points.
Reinhold Reither from the online magazine Stormbringer.at particularly emphasized the performance of singer Elin Larsson and guitarist Dorian Sorriaux. Larsson would "let a lot of mood and temperament flow into the songs", which is a "novelty in the world of harder tones", while Sorriaux could "quite rightly call it the Jimi Hendrix of the modern age". Reither awarded four out of five points. On the other hand, Andreas Borcholte from Spiegel Online , who described the Blues Pills as “another band that tries to faithfully reproduce their role models from forty years ago”, which “who already ailing rock'n'roll certainly doesn't need [e ] ". Borcholte rated the album three out of ten.
Chart placements
Blues Pills entered the German album charts at number four. For the first time, a band from the Nuclear Blast label managed to enter the top 10 of the German album charts with their debut album. In Switzerland, the album reached number ten and 19 in Austria place more chart positions reached the album in Finland with space 21 in Belgium with number 72 ( Wallonia ) or 120 ( Flanders ), the Netherlands with space 85 and in France with 115th place.
Awards
The readers of the German magazine Rock Hard voted Blues Pills the fifth best album of 2014. The band also won the Newcomer 2014 category . The German magazine Visions led Blues Pills on its published 2019 list of Swedish 55 best rock albums.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Marlis Wimmerer: With Yin and Yang to the top !. In: Blast! , No. 106, p. 37.
- ↑ Manuel Liebler: Miracle Pills. In: Metal Hammer , July 2014, p. 127.
- ↑ Theodore Xouridas: Blues Pills (Zack Anderson). NoiseFull, archived from the original on May 4, 2018 ; accessed on July 24, 2014 (English).
- ↑ a b BLUES PILLS - Self Titled Album (OFFICAL TRACK BY TRACK). Nuclear Blast , accessed July 8, 2014 .
- ↑ Marlis Wimmerer: Hits in 60 minutes. In: Blast! , Issue 104, p. 8.
- ↑ Andreas Dewald: Time travel in tablet form. Deutschlandfunk , accessed on July 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Blues Pills in the German album charts. GfK Entertainment , accessed on May 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Blues Pills in the Austrian album charts. Austriancharts.at, accessed on November 1, 2014 .
- ↑ Blues Pills in the Swiss album charts. Hitparade.ch, accessed on November 1, 2014 .
- ↑ Blue Pills (sic!) In the British album charts. Official Charts Company, accessed February 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Boris Kaiser: Blues Pills - Blues Pills. Rock Hard , accessed October 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Markus Endres: Blues Pills - Blues Pills. Metal.de, accessed on July 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Reinhold Reitgher: Blues Pills - Blues Pills. Stormbringer.at, accessed on July 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Abgehört: The most important music of the week. Spiegel Online , accessed July 22, 2014 .
- ↑ BLUES PILLS - enter the top 5 of the German charts! Nuclear Blast , accessed November 1, 2014 .
- ↑ Michael Rensen: Reader Poll 2014 . In: Rock Hard, March 2015, page 54
- ↑ various authors: export world champion . In: Visions , issue 312, page 54
Web links
- Blues Pills at Allmusic (English)