![News Added Sep 27, 2016 Blind Channel, in the span of a few months, has quickly become one of my favorite live acts. How painful is it then that they haven’t actually had an album for me to listen to all summer, especially when this music is perfect for sunny days (okay, we haven’t had […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Cover-26-320x320.jpg "Blind Channel : Revolutions")
Blind Channel, in the span of a few months, has quickly become one of my favorite live acts. How painful is it then that they haven’t actually had an album for me to listen to all summer, especially when this music is perfect for sunny days (okay, we haven’t had many of those this summer, but still)? October 1st, 2016, is the official release date of Revolutions, but I can’t deny my excitement when I got my hands on an advance copy of the album so I could start enjoying it right away! I expected a few of these songs to be familiar from Spotify and their live shows, all of which suggested that this was going to be a great album.
The album sounded promising already on paper – Jonas Olsson did the production and Jens Bogren was on mixing duty. The latter has come onto our radar fairly frequently in recent days, with one of his most recent and well-appreciated projects (at least around Musicalypse HQ) being Amorphis’ Under the Red Cloud. But what about the songs themselves?
01. Bullet (With Your Name on It)
The album starts out with “Bullet (With Your Name on It)”, with it’s Oriental-sounding tinking noises in the beginning. They act a bit like an intro, which reminds me a little of Meteora by Linkin Park’s intro. It’s a pretty high-energy track and a good place to start things off – I could see it being a good song to get a live show going with too. It’s got a little bit of that angry energy without actually sounding like an angry song: “You are not my friend!” This song is a good introduction to their sound as it has a lot of the aspects that make ‘violent pop’ with vocalist Niko Moilanen‘s rapping seamlessly blending into heavier parts of the song, mixed in with some catchy pop singalong choruses – it works very well. 5/5
02. Darker than Black
“Darker than Black” was the first song I had heard from the band via it’s simplistic but nevertheless excellent music video. I was hooked the second I heard the “whoa-oa-ao!” part. This was actually the song that got me into their music, because it’s catchy and it reminds me of a lot of things I used to love in my youth without actually sounding like any of them. You also get a really good impression of Joel Hokka‘s gentler vocals as well. The two vocalists harmonize perfectly together, creating a phenomenal blend, and the way they trade off in the C-part work so well to build things up to another round of that chorus. And who can’t sing along with that? 5/5
