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Artist: Blues Pills Title: Blues Pills Live Label:   Nuclear Blast Country: Europe Catalogue: NB 3497-1 / NB 3497-1-1 / NB 3497-1-2 Barcode: 727361349714 Date: Mar 2015 Format: LP Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  2 Own, 1 Wants Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Blues Pills	High Class Woman	Blues Pills	Rate
A2	Blues Pills	Ain't No Change	Blues Pills	Rate
A3	Blues Pills	Bliss	Blues Pills	Rate
B1	Blues Pills	Dig In	Blues Pills	Rate
B2	Blues Pills	Black Smoke	Blues Pills	Rate
B3	Blues Pills	Time Is Now	Blues Pills	Rate
C1	Blues Pills	No Hope Left For Me	Blues Pills	Rate
C2	Blues Pills	Devil Man	Blues Pills	Rate
C3	Blues Pills	Astralplane	Blues Pills	Rate
C4	Blues Pills	Little Sun	Blues Pills	Rate

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Double Album, Gatefold Sleeve, Live Recordings Over 3 sides, Entirety Of 4th side Etched With Blues Pills Logo.

Recorded live: May 30th 2014 in Netphen Deuz...

Freak Valley Festival.

Blues Pills:

Dorian Sorriaux - Elin Larsson - Zack Anderson - Andre Kvarnstrum.

Mastered by Tony Reed.

Cover Artwork by: Marijke Koger-Dunham.

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Magic Marmalade 20th May 2015		Review Just finished recording this. I'm not someone who tends to go for live recordings; More in the camp of the studio album fan, where things sound as they ought... But this is a much more satisfying experience than the debut studio album, with their music much more suited to this format. The initial praise and general excitement around their debut album, as bringing back a hard rock sound evocative of the likes of Deep Purple, and a host of others (Lead singer Elin Larsson has drawn comparison - from me too on occasion - to Janis Joplin... over the top maybe, and certainly with her own style, but the lady can certainly sing the blues!!!!), a more balanced appraisal, having listened to it a lot now, allows me to hear in that album just what it is about them that is exciting, on their own terms. But that is part of the problem, they evoke so many others, they kind of get lost in the names and sounds of others, and sound like a band who haven't yet distilled their own identity. The overall, and lasting impression of the debut is of a band who could be something special... but that is no different to the debuts of a thousand other bands, who get you anticipating the next stage of their development, and who more often than not let you down, mostly, you suspect, due the "Advice" of record labels and PR people to become more palatable to a broader audience. and while the debut sounds great, there is a sense of them playing with the handbrake on, not yet having the confidence to let rip the way you suspect they can. This addresses those issues, and then some (albeit, at the same time highlighting the constraint of the debut). this live album is recorded very "close mic-ed", so that the crowd sounds are quite subdued (but still a background presence), but they have more heft and weight in the sound here, more grunt, and the sound benefits from the expansiveness and width of a live recrording, that absolutely suits the music. This is Blues Pills... the Diesel version... thumping, walloping, and a lot looser and organic. There are still comparisons to be made with others, in that here they shift away from the metal sound a little, and a little more toward a genuine blues hard rock sound, Dorain Sorriaux's guitar being the big feature here... very technically brilliant on the studio album, but here showing he's got feel too - that often technically gifted guitarists don't have. very talented man! He uses the peddles and effects well, and gives an almost Hendrix-live like performance, floating into psychadelia on occasion. Obviously, as this was recorded before the studio album, they changed the drummer since this and the debut, and I have to say I can see why. He's good, just a little more prosaic, and not technically as good as the new guy. More of a flat out Rock drummer, whereas they now have a more nuanced sound in the drumming (Jazzy(?)) which could be ascribed to the studio "many takes" advantage, but this drumming does propel this along more, and give it more power than the studio album. I hope, when they head back into the studio, they keep the immediacy of the Debut, but try and record each new song live in the studio, and take some of this sound with them. Nuclear Blast have a job on their hands keeping hold of Blues Pills, because they are building a huge following, which will sooner or later punch through into mainstream consciousness, and they have the tools to be the first truly Huge, genuine rock band of this century... and then the big labels (should that be pluralthese days ?!!) will come 'a' knockin'. But if they can get this sound in the studio next time round, I'll be one happy camper. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Magic Marmalade 13th May 2015		Must make a correction regarding the band line up, as it seems the blindingly obvious escaped me! This was recorded before the studio album, with the drummer as stated above... a new drummer replaced him for the studio album, but this was released after... so as far as I know, the drummer for the studio album is still with the band, and this guy has left.
Magic Marmalade 5th Apr 2015		ah, didn't notice that before until entering this... it would appear they have a new drummer since releasing the studio album.

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