''The Great Depression'' is the fifth studio album from
post-hardcore
Post-hardcore is a punk rock music genre that maintains the aggression and intensity of hardcore punk but emphasizes a greater degree of creative expression. It was initially inspired by post-punk and noise rock. Like post-punk, the term has been ...
band
Blindside. It is their first album for
DRT Entertainment
DRT Entertainment was a New York City based independent record label founded in 2003 by Derek Shulman, Ron Urban, and Theodore "Ted" Green. The label is defunct.
The label advertised itself as an "artist friendly hard rock music company for band ...
. The album was largely influenced by a trip to
Africa
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that their lead singer, Christian, had undertaken. He was very unsettled by his experience and the things he saw influenced the album immensely. The song "Yemkela" was written about a young African boy he met on his trip. The boy had HIV and had less than two months to live. However, in a recent interview, Christian Lindskog revealed that on a recent tour in South Africa, he had seen Yemkela (who Christian expected would be dead) at a show in
Cape Town
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. To Christian's surprise, he was doing well and watched Blindside perform his song and sang along. This Performance was released on a documentary packaged with Blindside's 2011 album "
With Shivering Hearts We Wait
''With Shivering Hearts We Wait'' is Blindside's sixth album.
Track listing
#"There Must Be Something in the Water" - 3:58
#"My Heart Escapes" - 3:42
#"Monster on the Radio" - 3:11
#"It's All I Have" - 3:51
#"Bloodstained Hollywood Ending" - 3: ...
."
Track listing
#"The Great Depression"
– 1:27
#"This Is a Heart Attack"
– 3:10
#"Ask Me Now"
– 3:34
#"We're All Going to Die"
– 3:00
#"Yemkela"
– 3:38
#"Put Back the Stars"
– 3:57
#"Fell in Love With the Game"
– 4:07
#"City Lights"
– 3:13
#"We Are to Follow"
– 4:02
#"You Must Be Bleeding Under Your Eyelids"
– 4:56
#"My Alibi"
– 4:33
#"Come to Rest (Hesychia)"
– 4:29
#"This Time"
– 4:47
#"When I Remember"
– 4:27
Singles
*"Fell in Love With the Game"
*"When I Remember"
Guest musicians
*
J. Jamte – "You Must Be Bleeding Under Your Eyelids"
*
Ilkka Viitasalo (of
Benea Reach
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History ...
) – "Come to Rest (Hesychia)"
Trivia
*"Fell in Love With the Game" contains the line "We wrestle in the mud and the blood and the beer," which references the
Johnny Cash
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song "
A Boy Named Sue
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."
References
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2005 albums
Blindside (band) albums
DRT Entertainment albums