Billy Talent (Album)
Occupation
- Guitar: Ian D' Sa
- Vocals: Benjamin Kowalewicz
- E -Bass: Jonathan Gallant
- Drums: Aaron Solowoniuk
Billy Talent is the second album of the same band Billy Talent. After several years of progressive Rocks opted Billy Talent in 2003 to change their musical style in alternative rock. Consequently, the product sold by the label Atlantic Records album Billy Talent, with which the band managed their commercial breakthrough appeared.
Billy Talent was in January 2007 awarded by the CRIA with three times platinum and was nominated for the "best rock album " at the Juno Awards in 2004. It was recorded in the studio The Factory in Vancouver, British Columbia.
On the album a total of twelve songs are included, with four as EP are also available. On 22 September 2003, the first single, Try Honesty appeared. On March 29, was released in 2004 with The Ex, the second single from the album. River Below appeared as the third single on July 5, 2004. The last single from the album was Nothing to Lose, which was released as a radio single.
Background
Following the publication of EP Try Honesty in 2001, the band went in the spring of 2003 with Gavin Brown into the studio to record their self-titled debut album under the new name. After Watoosh! But this was already the second album, which was published under their old band name Pezz in 1999.
After the band renamed according to the character of the movie " Hardcore Logo" in Billy Talent, the band tried their ideas claims to no longer to exhaust up to perfection and turned away from progressive rock.
Singer Benjamin Kowalewicz said: "We have for years tried in vain to find our own sound. It happened only everything into a whole, when we finally just like that accepts us as we are, after all. If one finds his voice, everything else follows quite by itself. "
Guitarist Ian D' Sa commented: " When we started, it was more a matter of setting up our uniqueness, as we imitate other bands ." Laut.de wrote to her commercial breakthrough: "With their catchy punk rock tunes they evacuate prices equal rows and fill concert halls around the world. "
Reception
Laut.de criticized the album as very innovative and ruled that it was "hard alternative rock for 15- year-olds who are still trying to find their musical direction. " However, the band was a team that only their name to something wrong bears, "talent -free zone would be too much of a bad ". The band would pretty much know " how to build a common alternative rockers liquid, and have been playing for some years together." That one would listen to them clearly, " Perfect set two-part choruses as in sing-along chorus of Cut The Curtains or beautiful entry of two harmonized guitars in The Ex does not shake it so easy from his fingers ."
Armin Linder, however, praised the album profusely on plattentests.de " all of a piece, without frills, no Verkünstelungen and without false vanities " which came from " the belly, from the heart and with just as much brain therefore ," as the rocking are necessary. " And it seems the Canadians also abundant care if their debut is now bursting with variety or not. No useless ballad, always in the solid ".