Jan 13 Album Review: Black & Blue Pill – 800beloved

Written by Lee. Posted in Detroit Concerts

blackandbluepill Album Review: Black & Blue Pill 800beloved detroit concerts 800beloved’s Black & Blue Pill is possibly the only release to arrive at MCR whose very format could make for an interesting critique. A pill-shaped USB flash drive (complete with a comic “800mg” label on its side), it’s the perfect nod to the druggy imagery of shoegaze rock as popularized by Spacemen 3’s manifesto “Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To”. The pill contains files of five mp3s, lyrics, artwork, and a weird video clip of “candy” that looks like it could have been shot at a rave. Fortunately for people wary of putting mind-altering substances in their bodies, Black & Blue Pill won’t incite any violent hallucinations, but rather a light tranquilizing effect. Singer Sean Lynch’s wistful lyrics pierce through the compositions, which call to mind the slick New Wave of the late eighties and early nineties: he’s not just nostalgic for that time period in the lyrics of the song “1992″, but stylistically on the rest of the album as well. Black & Blue Pill should help subdue any pain fans might be experiencing while waiting for the band’s proper debut, Boquet, to be released sometime this spring, but good luck finding a copy, though- the limited edition pill seems to be sold out. To continue the drug analogies, maybe you can bum it off a friend?