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Now I always feel as if I have to be careful about what I say about Nine Black Alps songs. The band follows me on Twitter, you see, and I think it was because they read one of my posts. Whether they liked it or not is a mystery to me, but I guess they want to see more. I haven’t talked about a Nine Black Alps track in a while.

Well, here is one now. It’s “Every Photograph Steals Your Soul”, the third track from the band’s third album “Locked Out from the Inside” released way back in 2009. I first heard it when the album was exclusively put up onto we7.com. If anyone remembers that site, isn’t it a shame what happened to it? It started to change by becoming a radio only site in 2012, and then it changed companies altogether. A real shame, I liked that site.

But anyway, I was excited as fuck to be listening to that album. Was hyped from the day “Buy Nothing” was revealed a few months earlier, but when I heard the first strum on “Vampire in the Sun” I knew I was in for something special. Nine Black Alps were heavy again after “Love/Hate”, and were bringing back the noise.

The topic of the track is really all there in the title. The song is from the perspective of a photographer who is all about the money and stealing people’s innocence for their own personal gain. Well, I’m thinking that’s what the band intended to make out this person to be. There is low, sinister guitar playing during the verses which give me an image of some sleazy man taking pictures of somebody, and then the volume increases for the chorus; the guitars get loud and Sam Forrest yells the title phrase with a few ‘yeahs’ thrown in there for good measure.

Just throwing this in, but the part which gave me goosebumps on my first listen? The part where everything stops for a split second before a ear splitting “YEAH” brings everything back in again. That was when I realised that this album was the shit.