Pain Of Salvation: Road Salt Two on CD
Road Salt Two
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- Label:
- Inside Out
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2011
- UPC/EAN:
- 5052205056226
- Release date:
- 11.10.2011
Product Information
Sweden’s PAIN OF SALVATION are likely the very opposite of a predictable and standardized act. They once more prove their unmatched reputation as true artists and modern rock expressionists by delivering “Road Salt Two”, the twin-companion ”Road Salt One” (2010), as an album equally opulent in creativity and stylistic flirtation, as well as at the same time genuine, musically coherent and brave in its rich amount of texture. In that sense, “Road Salt Two” is another twelve tracks of sweaty gravel, asphalt butterflies, untrodden paths and brave decisions.
Meticulously anticipated, the sophomore part of the “Road Salt” double-album concept is now ready to make its overdue public appearance, after what can easily be called a very eventful last year for PAIN OF SALVATION: Several chart entries with “Road Salt One”, Russian train bombs, a successful appearance at the mainstream-oriented Swedish “Melodifestivalen” song-contest, the release and ban of a highly controversial video clip for the song “Where It Hurts” as well as acclaimed touring activity all over Europe, India and South America made the waiting time pass along quickly, even though the project seemed a bit of a “cliffhanger” for the listener…
“I notice that I find it difficult to talk about this second part specifically because it becomes obvious that, for me at least, it’s not possible to distinguish the journey of ‘Road Salt Two’ from that of ‘Road Salt One’ - it’s really the same journey,” comments PAIN OF SALVATION’s Daniel Gildenlöw, to further elaborate, “I guess for the audience and for the public it appears to be more like two separate products, especially with the time between the releases. But most of the music is actually material that started to be recorded at the same time, so I feel that I have to look at it as a ‘Road Salt journey’ altogether…one that has been very, very long for me, starting already back in 2005 / 2006 for me and some of the songs. But especially since the end of 2008 it has been like a main project that has been devouring me, like all projects do. So from that perspective it almost feels odd at this point to have it sort of behind me. It's like I say in "Of Dust" (off “Road Salt One”): when you've been walking down the road for a very long time you get to the point when you can’t distinguish yourself from the road. You and your journey become the same. You change the road and the road changes you. An all-in symbiosis, for good and bad."
“Road Salt Two” once again presents PAIN OF SALVATION at its most emotionally intense and stylistically colourful, with a predominant 70’s vibe, yet, in direct comparison to “Road Salt One”, it might strike the listener as being a bit darker. It basically serves as a perfect breed between ‘old’ and ‘new’ PAIN OF SALVATION, while also presenting a different and previously unheard PAIN OF SALVATION. “Road Salt” goes full circle historically for the band, and as Gildenlöw puts it, “the two ‘Road Salt’ albums together are earthy, grainy and gritty. And to me that was the whole main idea; to bury our fingers and feet deeply into that soil of emotions and intellectual analysis of contemporary society”, before adding: “Every album is like an organism. You live with it and you breathe with it, especially this one since it's a double-album, which means that as you change, as time passes by, you will get second, third and fourth perspectives on all the songs. You lose your objectivity pretty early-on in the game, which is in many ways a good thing because I think you can only make a lasting album by embracing subjectivity. That’s what makes albums that will become ‘something more’...”
(insideoutmusic. com)
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Road salt theme
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2 Softly she cries
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3 Conditioned
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4 Healing now
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5 To the shoreline
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6 Eleven
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7 1979
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8 The deeper cut
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9 Mortar Grind
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10 Through the distance
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11 The physics of Gridlock
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12 End credits
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