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Four and a half stars for blindside's best

Aaron Baldassare | Denver, CO | 01/21/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I am an avid listener of all of Blindside's music. This is decidedly the most beautiful, passionate, gut-wrenching, and innovative of Blindside's albums. It is the album that gained the attention of reviewers and establishes Blindside as a potential, devastating force to establish a new realm of heavy rock/punk/metal what-to-call-it?!!. Silence, while a good album, only shows they can also conform well to popular standards. Their real art is right here. This is not a first-listen album! It is, in the words of disappointed reviewers, "screamy." The guitars are thick, more than the comfortable power chords people are used to, the harmonies, phrases, and meters are very untraditional. They will switch between 4/4 and 6/8, throwing your ear for a loop. On "Where Eye Meets Eye" there is even a section in 9/8! The sound is raw, the vocals are loud, passionate, and beautiful. The use of strings in several of the tracks, especially cello is especially impressive. At first listen, "A Thought" sounds like an unrelenting, noisy mess. But acclimating yourself to the havoc is certainly a rewarding experience. A handful of the tracks, "My Mother's Only Son," "Nara," "Nothing But Skin," "As You Walk," and "King of the Closet" stand out among the rest, but all contribute something of a punk/hardcore artfulness to the whole album. I listen to Silence regularly, the self-titled now and again, but A Thought Crushed My Mind is the album I return to most of all, especially for catharsis in moments of angst. Nothing I've heard, outside an orchestra performing the beautiful, despairing modern works of the likes of Shostakovich, can quite compare. This album is most suited for those who are young, not easily queazy, apt to stray far from the pop fold, used to loud guitars and screaming, and ecclectic in their approach to music. For everyone else, including fans of Silence, enter at your own risk."

What are you talking about

Aaron Baldassare | 03/16/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"i dont know what that last entry was about...BLINDSIDE is one of the most spirtual bands i know, and this album is amazing. the 9 minute song is one of the best composed songs ever. the lyrics to this cd are extremely thought provoking and unique. buy this cd its the best cd ever made"

Best ever

Kathy Price | America | 01/27/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is the ultimate. Blindside has really come through on this one. Though it took forever to be released, you can really tell they've improved musically. They're so much tighter, and they really show their versatility in their different ranges. You can tell they were thinking when they did this one. Better than the first, which is saying alot."