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Blindside's The Great Depression will forever be so under appreciated. Such a moody, cool album. As good and nostalgic as those couple more iconic albums before it were, that one and With Shivering Hearts We Wait might be my actual two favorite albums from them.

My favorite Blindside song, though, is "Shekina." I spent less time with About a Burning Fire as a kid than I did Silence, but I have a distinct memory of listening to that song on repeat on the last night of church camp at 16 years old and vibing hard to it. Just a really simple, really effective song about spirituality and innocence.

Oh, and some of that early stuff of theirs is charmingly rough and fun, lol.

 

Speaking of under appreciated albums, Vices by Dead Poetic is low key one of my favorite Tooth & Nail releases. It was part of that wave of T&N bands with screaming getting burnt out and abandoning that approach, which in their case landed in a certain rock 'n' roll territory unpopular with scene kids. And, the band imploded right when it dropped, which didn't help. But, I kept a bunch of those songs in rotation for years after it came out. Not overtly stellar, but sneakily good at what it's going for.

 

I remember hearing "Narcotic" play on the speaker before a concert a couple years ago (mewithoutYou maybe?). I shazamed it and found out what song it was because it felt like something that must have been pretty big. I was really surprised to find out it was from Vices and checked the whole record out after that. Not my all-time favorite T&N release by any means, but there was so much on that record that should have been a T&N classic by all accounts.

 

Agreed, The Great Depression is great. I wouldn't put it on the same tier as the other three records you mentioned but I love that they tried something a little different on that one and for the most part it worked.

That was probably one of my most anticipated albums ever after Silence and AABF made them second to none for me.

 

Did any of you guys frequent the Indie Vision Music site back in the day? I lurked in there from about 2010-2013 and it was one of the big reasons I really got into music

 

So many good bands from that era lost their following because they stopped doing the screaming thing. Dead Poetic, The Beautiful Mistake, As Cities Burn, He Is Legend, Showbread...Listening to most of those albums now, the later stuff is often better than what was popular.

 

I would say it's a great record if not a fantastic one. The Labeled podcast had a really insightful episode on Dead Poetic that explained what lead to the making of that record and subsequent disbanding, which I found really enhanced my enjoyment of the album when I went back to it. Definitely worth checking out.

 

Brb going on a 2000’s Tooth & Nail binge! Though right now I’m listening to Deas Vail. Same cornerstone scene.

 

yeah I HATED suck out the poison by he is legend at the time. Dead poetic was about to be a straight up radio rock band with tours with incubus and papa roach lined up and the singer just went “eh sorry don’t want to do it”.

 

album is SO good. And the black rose EP

 

Indie Vision practically raised me. Those years late 2000's/early 2010's years were the golden years. Brandon Jones is the bomb.

 

Indie Vision and Jesusfreakhideout were my go-tos. I also used to have a monthly ritual where I'd go to Barnes & Noble to pick up the new Alternative Press, and then go across the street to the Christian bookstore for a copy of HM. Good times.

 

Damn that's another blast from the past

 

Omg. Deas Vail. So good.

 

Saw / discovered them at Cornerstone 2009(?) and it blew 17 year old me away.

 

I forgot they have 3 albums. I only remember All the Houses. Apparently they have a Christmas ep too. This is great.

 

I saw the singer of this band, the singer of Mae and the singer of two thirty eight play acoustic in the backyard of Dave from Mae’s studio with like 30 people with free beer. Was one of my favorite shows

 

Deas Vail is one of my favorites! I listen to Birds & Cages every half a year and will listen through their whole discography around once a year

 

I actually agree, I think Great Depression and About a Burning Fire are my two favorite of theirs. Great Depression is such a stellar record and I love the moodiness of it.

To me, Silence was a fun listen but didn't have the impact of their later work to me. With Shivering Hearts We Wait is also excellent.

 

Had the same experience. In 2010 I saw them in a tiny venue called Mango's that no longer exist. I was 18 and I even got a chance to chat with them a bit, was definitely star struck lol

 

Another band that came to mind while reading this thread that I had not seen mentioned yet. Such a great era.

This Beautiful Republic

 

Another one :)

 

A few more now that I'm going through my library, though I think these were more with ForeFront records

This was such a monster of an album from Wavorly - Conquering The Fear of Flight

Abandon - Your Love Goes On

The Wedding - I-540 (Another banger of an album)

 

My last one for now, need to go shovel some snow. Probably my favorite of the bunch.

 

oooo somehow missed these guys thanks for sharing. Interesting connection to Oh Sleeper as well.