Our Love Saves Us - by Blindside

I woke up this morning (good thing, too, eh?), & this song crept into my head.  So now I let it into yours.

Blindside is from Stockholm, Sweden.  They started out as Underfree for their first two years as a band, but changed their name with their second demo released in 1996.  Their debut album came out in 1997 on Day-Glo Records, a label, I believe, based out of Germany.  Needless to say, they became bigger & bigger, & by the time they released their third album, "Silence" [2002, Elektra], they struck gold - the album charted at #83 on Billboard's 200, & their next album, "About a Burning Fire" [2004, Elektra] reached #39.  Their next album, "The Great Depression" [Wasa/DRT], came the following year, & much of the inspiration comes from when singer & lyricist Christian Lindskog "returned from a deeply affecting trip to South Africa… Songs literally started spilling out of Lindskog when he returned from the beleaguered nation"*.  Then, there was "The Black Rose EP" [2007, DRT], & that was the last anybody really heard of Blindside except for a couple of misleading hints at an upcoming album - they have since explained what happened**, & now, "With Shivering Hearts We Wait" is out, released June 7th, 2011 on INO Records.  This song is from "With Shivering Hearts We Wait".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q_B-VxcfRc

& here's two acoustic version for your entertainment, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tss2WcgnGrc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9OthNsax6g

* - You can read more about it on their PureVolume page:

http://www.purevolume.com/blindside

** - … in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoizU6nERYY