The Carrier - Blind To What Is Right (2010)

It sounds a lot like Stick To Your Guns. I’d say it sounds too much like Stick To Your Guns. Is that really such a bad thing, though?

I think so. This record is good, very good in fact. The fact that there is pretty much nothing to differentiate it from Stick To Your Guns, though, does raise serious cause for concern. I mean, it really is the same: The guitars; the singing; the drums... everything. If you didn’t know otherwise, I wouldn’t blame you at all for mistaking it to be STYG.

I have no problem with a band having a strong influence from another band, but they have to make your own music: Draw influence from more than one place; do something original. The Carrier sound to me like a very good cover band. Which would be fine, if that’s what they said they were. But they don’t.

It’s not completely without merit, though. Like I said, it’s a good album. Very listenable to, in fact. All the songs on it are good, and it’s all fairly well made. All the music is played well; the vocals are good, if a little repetitive. I just can’t get over how much of a copy this is. I suppose in some genres, all bands sound the same. But somehow, this is different.

The song that stuck out to me most was the last one: ‘All That’s Left To See’. It sounds somewhat less like a Stick To Your Guns copy than some of the others, and has some good catchy parts to it and is an all round enjoyable listen. This whole album is definitely worth listening to if you’re a STYG fan, but I feel your pain if you think it too much of a rip off.


5/10


1. Blind to What is Right
2. Everyone Who I Knew and Loved is Gone
3. Wash Away My Sins
4. Hollow Pain
5. A Stranger to Myself
6. In Silence Together
7. Downstream
8. Into Darkness
9. All That's Left to See

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