Track Listing

1. Into the Open
2. Searching for the Ghost
3. Finding Solutions
4. All This Time
5. Brazen
6. I Swallowed A Dragonfly
7. Blue Day
8. Valley of Debris
9. No Pointing Arrows
10. Came A Long Way

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26631 in Music
• Brand: Dig
• Released on: 2006-08-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Amazon.com
A gentle line-drawing marks the cover of the Hearless Bastards' sophomore album, All This Time, just a woman holding a dragonfly by its tail. Singer Erika Wennerstrom's yearning vocals and the rolling piano figures that open the album echo the cover. It's sensitive, full of feeling. Beware: It bursts open, with a wall of lean and loud guitar, bass, and drums – and Wennerstrom's room-filling mid-range vocals, blasting full-throatedly as she sings "Things are coming into focus!" The Cincinnati trio's 2005 debut, Stairs and Elevators, highlighted their blues roots, and All This Time takes those blues and folds them into a brawny rock pastry. Wennerstrom's voice is huge, an instant ear magnet that no one misses, a PJ Harvey from the heartland playing bold, large-stroke guitar. At once, the Bastards are bottom-heavy and beautifully melodic, taking flight--or at least harnessing the power of that album-cover dragonfly. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews

More cohesive than Stairs
Just got this album yesterday... I have to tell you it took me three listens to really understand why I liked it. On first listen, I thought it was a good album, but not anything spectacular. I listened a few more times, caught some of the subtle nuances, and man this is a killer album. It's not as straight-forward gut busting rock as the first album, but it is a far more cohesive album than Stairs and Elevators. "Dragonfly", "Finding Solutions", and "Blue Day" are standout tracks. Especially listen carefully to the lyrics on "Into the Open" as they reference several later songs on the album, adding a neat little twist.

Solid rock trio with a fantastic, tough, bassy female vocalist
Erika Wennerstrom belongs firmly in the Tough and Sexy Pantheon of Female Vocalists - goddesses like Grace Slick, Chrissy Hinde and Liz Phair. Dust of that high-school bong, chill a couple of beers and enjoy the hell out this album (as well as their first album, Stairs and Elevators). If you're a someone who prefers male singers and dislikes whiney voices like I do, I think you'll discover a part of your music craving that's long been unsatisfied.

The tempos on All This Time are a little slower and more hypnotic than Stairs and Elevators i.e. don't expect any Communication Breakdown type drivers that wanna make you snap your pimply neck, but these tunes will build up in your gut make you proud to be a rock patriot.

Just buy this right now

I was honestly a bit put off by the cover art -- I imagined something like the Indigo Girls. In fact, this is bottom-heavy old-school rock and roll, with a slight country/blues twist, great powerhouse female lead vocals, great songwriting, great performances. It sounds really comfortable and familiar, but at the same time it's hard to think of an exact parallel -- if Lucinda Williams recorded a rock record, it might sound like this. Altogether a really captivating and satisfying rock album. This would have been a monstrous FM radio album back in the day. Into the Open, Brazen, Blue Day, and Valley of Debris are all awesome songs. Buy it.