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Bled, The Album Review
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Band Name: Bled, The
Album Name: Silent Treatment Rating: 3 / 5 User Rating: 0 / 5 Label: Vagrant Records Buy Album: Amazon.com Rate Album: Rate |
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Tracklist 1. Shade Tree Mechanics 2. You Should Be Ashamed of Myself 3. Threes Away 4. Asleep on the Frontlines 5. Platonic Sleepover Massacre 6. Starving Artiste 7. Silver Lining 8. Some Just Vanish 9. Breathing Room Barricades 10. Beheaded My Way 11. My Bitter Half |
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When The Bled first hit our speakers in 2004 with their debut ‘Pass The Flask', they amassed a full-on throng of dedicated followers. This wasn't a fluke; their emotional-yet-heavy-as-fuck post-hardcore, full of all the big choruses and breakdowns you could ever need, sounded huge and rightfully sold by the bucket load. The follow-up ‘Found In The Flood' saw them grow in diversity and musical maturity but it didn't quite have the raw passion that the first album evoked and the sales numbers (and critic feedback) reflected this. So that brings us to 2007 and to the release of their third full length ‘Silent Treatment'. At this stage in their careers, many bands of this ilk will spot the potential for mainstream success and write an album largely consisting of potential singles. Straight from the off it is clear that ‘Silent Treatment' is not going to be a case of this. Opener ‘Shadetree Mechanics', with its spazz-like time signatures and raw throaty vocals, shreds and pulverises before giving way to a huge, airy chorus. It is this that shows what direction this album is clearly heading into; taking the best parts of their first two albums and executing it a thousand times, well, better. The album does drift into defined experimental territory with the atmospheric ‘Asleep On The Front Lines' but this doesn't last long and it, almost predictably, progresses into a mass war-like frenzy of chugging and screaming. At its heaviest, the music is extremely technical with rhythm changes happening almost every few seconds, and whilst this is something that is almost expected of a band of this genre, The Bled do it better than most. To put simply, this is quite easily The Bled's heaviest album yet. It will please fans of the first album with is intensity and it will also please fans of the second album with its experimentation and slow building epics. If you happen to be a fan of both albums, then well, you're in for a treat. Review by: Nick Calafato Read Member Reviews |
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