After
listening to this album, I was immediately moved to find out what else I could
about this band who is not making their debut on this album. In fact, this band debuted back in 2002 (How
am I just finding them now??) and their most recent album was from back in
2006, so apparently they took some time off between their last album and this
one.
You
also have to factor that the first five albums this band released were between
2002 and 2006, so it’s something like five albums in five years, then a span of
seven empty years before this came out.
Wow. I wonder what happened in
those seven years. Imagine if they continued
at their rate of an album per year, this would be their tenth or eleventh
album. Crazy.
The
Blow combines beats and synth in what would be obvious to compare to Tegan and
Sara though they aren’t really that similar.
The music is layered and needs to be listened to a few times over before
you can fully appreciate it. But as
music should, I feel as if this is just going to get better with time.
The
lyrics are also a bit of fun, as in one song we are told she is coming to us
from the future which doesn’t surprise me.
While
this may serve as my only review for The Blow until their next new album, I
wouldn’t mind going back and reviewing each of their prior five albums
separately. If nothing else, I will
definitely be doing a lot of listening to them.
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