Peter Carlsohn's The Rise
Out of the Blue

Peter Carlsohn is known from the pretty well known Swedish Christian rock band Jerusalem, a bassist who have been around the world of music for quite a while. Now he makes his debut solo album under the Peter Carlsohn’s Rise moniker for which he has enlisted the help of some music friends for the album Out of the Blue, maybe it came out of the blue. The cover looks quite blue with Peter who looks to be on a stage, something he has been for many times – it doesn’t look very exciting, but I like the colour.

Musically it is pretty classic and catchy hardrock, nothing spectacular in that regard. Peter sings pretty well, the sound is pretty classic, almost retro, it doesn’t sound like the most modern of albums. It is pretty varied for an album of this style, and the playing time of 36 minutes feels very sensible as well – I doubt anyone will think of this album as tedious, creatively bland perhaps but not long and tedious.

Out of the blue is a good album with good songs and feels like a solid quality production, the title track is quite catchy and enjoyable. But the album doesn’t really feel memorable, it doesn’t have that quality that makes it stand out from the crowds and crowds of albums that keeps coming all the time. Those that like Jerusalem and music of this style probably find this one pretty enjoyable as well, but I find it a bit unremarkable and hard to come up with things to write about.

I don’t think I need to write that much more, can’t really come up with anything else anyway. This is one of those good albums that I listen to for a while, pretty much like it, and then write a few words before forgetting about it – albums like that are just difficult to care much about. Nothing against Peter or other artists but as good as this one is, it will never make much of a mark in the history of music – he may have limited success do to his affiliation with Jerusalem that has a pretty big audience, but this is an album to like but not to love.

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