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"Approaching normal" CD by Blue October

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Is the overwhelming, partly contradictorily style-diversity on album number five of the American Alternative rockers brave and innovative, or more like schizophrenic and over-ambitious? It's interesting for sure!

Item no. 126290
Title Approaching normal
Musical Genre Crossover
Product topic Bands
Band Blue October
Release date 9/4/09
Product type CD
Media - Format 1-3 CD

CD 1

  • 1.
    Weight Of The World
  • 2.
    Say It
  • 3.
    Dirt Room
  • 4.
    Been Down
  • 5.
    My Never
  • 6.
    Should Be Loved
  • 7.
    Kangaroo Cry
  • 8.
    Picking Up Pieces
  • 9.
    Jump Rope
  • 10.
    Blue Skies
  • 11.
    Blue Does
  • 12.
    The End

by Oliver Kube (12.08.2009) Recorded in Willie Nelson's private studio, attended by ΓΌber-producer Steve Lillywhite (U2, Talking Heads, etc.), this fifth album by the Texan Alternative Rocksters Blue October is their most ambitious so far. Newbies to the band will have to get used to the wailing nasal vocals first - sometimes, they sound like Tenacious D's Jack Black, and then again, like young Peter Gabriel... But even stalwart fans of the quintet will be surprised by this sometimes weird output. Tracks as sophisticated, yet very Pop-py (at least when compared to their older stuff) "Jump rope", the epic, almost melodramatic opening song "Weight of the world", and the dark cutthroat ballad "The end" (partially spiced with Western-like arrangements) honestly don't make much sense on just one disc... Interesting, yet bizarre stuff.