The steady sweep of days

A couple of months ago, I purchased the album Sweep of days by the Danish experimental electronica/indierock band Blue Foundation. You might have heard of them from their massive hit Eyes on fire which appeared in the Twilight movie. 

For a long time I've loved the band with a passion because of their newest album Life as a ghost (the album with Eyes on fire in it). But when I listened to Sweep of days the first time, I must say, I was rather disapointed. Don't get me wrong, I still thought it was a lot better than most of the junk The Voice (a Danish channel with music as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and stuff like that) occasionally spits out, but I had tall-high expectations from the Life as a ghost album and they kind of didn't live up to those expectations. AT FIRST!

A week ago I stumpled across one of the songs from the Sweep of Days album when I had my Ipod on shuffle, and I was absolutely breathless. For two reasons: 

1) Due to the fact that the song was incredibly awesome 

2) I couldn't grasp how I could not have loved this album from the beginning

Indeed the album is very experimental and yes, it's true that you can't actually label the band as a electronica/indierock band, because this album have all sorts of genres, but I would argue that their main style of music is very electronica-ish. 

Basically I just wanted to rant about how stupid and musically-blind I can be sometimes, because this album deserves all the glory it can get, and I didn't give that to it in the start. 

Especially the almost 11 minute track "Sweep" is amazingly epic. I can listen to it a million times and still love it. 

- Simon