BLINDSIDE (2010)

The new album Blindside captures the dynamic of a Sofa Surfers concert, creating a textual and acoustic representation of our modern society, of increasingly uncertain identities, of our cohabitation on this world, of a societal skepticism of rushing from crisis to crisis born from the constant pressure to maximize and increase profits.

The band continues down the path of obliterating the pop cultural borders between terms like “Black Music”, “Dub Culture”, or “White Rock”. But the songs are denser, the lyrics more explicit than ever before. Blindside is an expressive creation that absorbs soul and noise, only to reflect it back, demanding physical listening (head banging, jumping, screaming) from the audience.

Blindside was written over the course of two years in the Sofa Surfer’s own studio and practice room and in various studios in Vienna with a multitude of friends and technicians.