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back from the brink

Words: Rob Hughes

Four years can be a long time in the music business. In the summer of 2016, Swedish hard rockers Blues Pills released their second album, Lady In Gold, to much acclaim. It achieved impressive sales, and was backed up by triumphant festival appearances and sell-out shows across Europe, which resulted in a live album the following year.

But then it all went quiet. Ominously quiet. The band of the hour suddenly disappeared. It transpires that dropping off the radar was self-imposed - but only to a degree. What began as a welcome break from the rigours of touring and recording instead ended up as a full-blown crisis, with the band almost folding.

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