The young, talented,
international quartet; Blues Pills
completely knocked me out with their
little EP in 2013. These youngsters
came from out of nowhere and burnt the
ground around me. The monster track
'Devil Man' is of course on this full
length album and they have also picked up the beautiful 'The River' as one of the
two tracks from their EP. Their idea is
to make soul music, combined it with
blues and rock’n’roll and turn it into a
new force of 70's energy, high intensity
and freshness and they are very successful in
doing so.
The vocalist and strong front
woman; Elin Larsson will guide you
gently into an new world. Her beautiful
voice is like combining Aretha Franklins
jazzy-soul vocal and Janis Joplin's
powerful heart and soulful singing. Very
exciting and living voice. The young
guitarist Dorian Sorriaux is one of the
most interesting string benders I've
heard in a long time. He's not even 20 years
old yet and plays like a young Jimi
Hendrix or Jimmy Page. Very catchy and
technical at the same time. A stunning
young musician!! With two amazingly
strong rhythm guys in Zack Anderson on
bass and Cory Berry on the drums the
line-up is complete.
If you are a fan of the newborn
vintage 70's hard rock this is a given
investment. I saw them live at Sweden Rock Festival
this year and gosh, I wonder how many new fans they
found during
that performance. Most of the audience
didn't really know what was going on in
the beginning of the concert and did
just stand around eating burgers or drinking
beer, but I didn't see one person leave the show.
Most of the comments were very
positive and the feedback after the show
was insane.
Anyhow, this debut album is
completely smacked with very classy hard
rock like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix's
Experience, Janis Joplin and Cream. The
opening song 'High Class Woman' is an
mystical and a mega strong hard rocking
track, which is stiffer than I expected
from Blues Pills (in a positive way).
Sometimes it is low-key drums and weak
base, but explodes in the chorus.
Courageously and innovative thinking
from the members. 'Ain't No Change' has
some 'old fashion' AC/DC rhythms in
itself, but turns into an more of
psychedelic rock tune after a while.
'Jupiter' is a sharp rock wallop with a
black sound and with extremely sweaty
guitar riffs. The gentle song (at the
beginning anyway) and Janis Joplin
languorous song 'Black Smoke' is an
exciting journey - their mountain and
valley track. They play the pants off
most of the bands in the genre with this
song and immediately afterwards comes
the smooth 'River', which really takes my
breath away. Beautiful as a Van Gogh
painting!
The only song that doesn't reach
a highest score is 'No Hope Left for
Me'. It doesn't grab a hold of my spine.
Phenomenal guitars and fat sound, but in
comparison to the other top notch songs,
it pulls down my ultra high overall
score (I'm sorry). My favorite song is
still the "old" 'Devil Man', which is a
song with a lot of goodies in the
package and the awesome opening song
'High Class Woman' is alone worth the
purchase.
Very epic and well worked out
album, which will be Blues Pills
springboard into the international music
scene...
Line-up:
Elin Larsson - vocals
Dorian Sorriaux - guitars
Zack Anderson - bass
Cory Berry - drums
