Pain of Salvation – Road Salt One (2010)

Album Review

Daniel Gildenlöw has described the album in interviews as sounding more “jam oriented” with tracks that sound like they have been “recorded live in the rehearsal room”. He has described the concept of Road Salt One as being many parallel stories that are neither fictional nor autobiographical, centering on a theme of making choices, and focusing on the choices that are left to make by each character… Read more on wikipedia.org

About the Band

In 1984, Daniel Gildenlow formed the band Reality at the whopping age of 11. The group stayed together under that name for seven years, albeit not without personnel changes. In 1991, the name Reality was shelved for the new reality of the name Pain of Salvation. By this point, the lineup was the aforementioned Gildenlow, Johan Hallgren, Johan Langell, and Kristoffer Gildenlow. When Fredrik Hermansson joined in 1996, they realized that they were ready to record an album. The result, Entropia, was laid down in 1997. They followed that disc up within a year with One Hour by… Read more on allmusic.com

Tracks

				Title	Composer	Time
		1		No Way	Gildenlow	5:26
		2		She Likes To Hide	Gildenlow	2:56
		3		Sisters	Gildenlow	6:14
		4		Of Dust	Gildenlow	2:32
		5		Tell Me You Don’t Know	Gildenlow	2:42
		6		Sleeping Under The Stars	Gildenlow	3:37
		7		Darkness Of Mine	Gildenlow	4:15
		8		Linoleum	Gildenlow	4:55
		9		Curiosity	Gildenlow	3:33
		10		Where It Hurts	Gildenlow	4:51
		11		Road Salt	Gildenlow	3:02
		12		Innocence	Gildenlow	7:13