Album Reviews
Remedies
6.5
Shit, I doubt there’s many hardcore bands out there that name all of their songs after the homeopathic remedies of Bach Flowers but count on Germany’s The Blackout Argument to do just that on their second full-length. Why? Because just like those remedies, their songs are made ‘to heal the receiver’s injured hearts and souls’. It does have kind of a gay vibe to it, right?
Luckily the songs on “Remedies” are anything but gay as The Blackout Argument raise a little bit of hell with their melodic hardcore. Nothing too original… I mean, we all know what Rise Against and Boysetsfire sound like. But they do a pretty good job of keeping things interesting throughout the fourteen songs on here. Vocalist Raphael Schmid may not be Nathan Gray but once you get used to his voice, there is not a lot you can say against “Remedies”.
Tom Dumarey
Lacking the talent to actually play in a band, Tom decided he would write about bands instead. Turns out his writing skills are mediocre at best as well.
