The Black Heart Rebellion – People When You See The Smoke, Do Not Think It Is Fields They Are Burning

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The Black Heart Rebellion is a band from Belgium making some post/punk ish music. They formed in 2004 and are currently going up for their third full length album with the long title: “People When You See The Smoke, Do Not Think It Is Fields They Are Burning”.

Quite a title, and maybe you could add that to: quite an album. It is obvious the band always takes their time when working on a new album and that is certainly coming back in this one as well. A well thought release that plays about 45 minutes, but it gives you the feeling it is much longer and yet does not start to become boring. The album has something sinister, it calls upon dark moods and relies you to surrender to it. Are you ready to feel these emotions?
Instrumentally they built and built their dragging sounds. Honest and fair, never being overdone for the sake of creating drama. Then when the vocals are coming in they ask a bit more from your empathy. A touching voice by vocalist Pieter is often the cause of you being totally dragged into their sound. A little surprise comes when they bring in a second vocalist named Annelies as they seem a vocal-match made in heaven.

It is a deep and intense release that feels like to took you of the streets for way longer than it does, you forget about time and space and that is a quality that not many have. Beautiful!

Tracklist: 01. Body breakers 02. Flower bone ornaments 03. Om benza satto hung 04. Bow and silk arrow 05. Near to fire for bricks 06. Dorsem 07. Rust 08. Violent love

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