The Great Depression is the fifth album

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 from post-hardcore

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 band Blindside

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. It is their first album for DRT Entertainment

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. The album was largely influenced by a trip to Africa

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 that their lead singer, Christian, had undertaken. He was very unsettled by his experience and the things he saw influenced the album immensely. The song "Yemkela" was written about a young African boy he met on his trip. The boy had HIV and had less than two months to live. However, in a recent interview, Christian Lindskog revealed that on a recent tour in South Africa, he had seen Yemkela (who Christian expected would be dead) at a show in Cape Town

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. To Christian's surprise, he was doing well and watched Blindside perform his song and sang along. This Performance was released on a documentary packaged with Blindside's 2011 album "With Shivering Hearts We Wait

With Shivering Hearts We Wait

With Shivering Hearts We Wait is Blindside's sixth full-length album.-Track listing:#"There Must Be Something in the Water" - 3:58#"My Heart Escapes" - 3:42#"Monster on the Radio" - 3:11#"It's All I Have" - 3:51...

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Track listing

1. "The Great Depression" – 1:27
2. "This Is a Heart Attack" – 3:10
3. "Ask Me Now" – 3:34
4. "We're All Going to Die" – 3:00
5. "Yemkela" – 3:38
6. "Put Back the Stars" – 3:57
7. "Fell in Love with the Game" – 4:07
8. "City Lights" – 3:13
9. "We Are to Follow" – 4:02
10. "You Must Be Bleeding Under Your Eyelids" – 4:56
11. "My Alibi" – 4:33
12. "Come to Rest (Hesychia)" – 4:29
13. "This Time" – 4:47
14. "When I Remember" – 4:27

Guest musicians

• J. Jamte – "You Must Be Bleeding Under Your Eyelids"
• Ilkka Viitasalo (of Benea Reach
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  ) – "Come to Rest (Hesychia)"

Trivia

• "Fell in Love With the Game" contains the line "We wrestle in the mud and the blood and the beer," which references the Johnny Cash
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   song "A Boy Named Sue
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