Artist: PAIN OF SALVATION
Album: ROAD SALT TWO LTD. EDIT. (LP)

Year: 2011
Media type: LP

ROAD SALT TWO once again presents PAIN OF SALVATION at its most emotionally intense and stylistically colourful, with a predominant 70’s vibe, yet, in direct comparison to “Road Salt One”, it might strike the listener as being a bit darker. It basically serves as a perfect breed between ‘old’ and ‘new’ PAIN OF SALVATION, while also presenting a different and previously unheard PAIN OF SALVATION. “Road Salt” goes full circle historically for the band, and as Gildenlow puts it, “the two ‘Road Salt’ albums together are earthy, grainy and gritty. And to me that was the whole main idea; to bury our fingers and feet deeply into that soil of emotions and intellectual analysis of contemporary society”, before adding: “Every album is like an organism. You live with it and you breathe with it, especially this one since it's a double-album, which means that as you change, as time passes by, you will get second, third and fourth perspectives on all the songs. You lose your objectivity pretty early-on in the game, which is in many ways a good thing because I think you can only make a lasting album by embracing subjectivity. That’s what makes albums that will become ‘something more’...”

SIDE A:

1.   Road Salt Theme   Pain Of Salvation   04:44   
2.   Softly She Cries   Pain Of Salvation   04:15   
3.   Conditioned   Pain Of Salvation   04:15   
4.   Healing Now   Pain Of Salvation   04:29   
5.   To the Shoreline   Pain Of Salvation   03:03   
6.   Eleven   Pain Of Salvation   06:55   
7.   1979   Pain Of Salvation   02:52   

SIDE B:

8.   The Deeper Cut   Pain Of Salvation   06:10   
9.   Mortar Grind   Pain Of Salvation   05:46   
10.   Through The Distance   Pain Of Salvation   02:56   
11.   The Physics Of Gridlock Horse   Pain Of Salvation   08:43   
12.   End Credits   Pain Of Salvation   03:25