Before the Blackout

Before the Blackout is Allister's third studio album.

Before the Blackout
Studio album by
Allister
ReleasedOctober 11, 2005 (2005-10-11)
Studio
Genre
Length46:05
LabelDrive-Thru
ProducerDennis Hill, Kyle Homme
Allister chronology
Last Stop Suburbia
(2002)		 Before the Blackout
(2005)		 Guilty Pleasures
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk72%[1]
AllMusic[2]
Drowned in Sound5/10[3]
Ox-Fanzine9/10[4]

Release

It was released on October 11, 2005 on Drive-Thru Records. From late January until early March 2007, the band supported Mest on their tour of the U.S.[5] In March and April the band went on a tour of Japan, before breaking up.[6]

Track listing

(all songs written by Allister, except where noted otherwise)

  1. "Waiting" – 3:23
  2. "D²" – 4:09
  3. "A Lotta Nerve" (Allister, Dennis Hill) – 2:42
  4. "From the Ground Up" (Allister, Rory Cleveland) – 2:14
  5. "Blackout" – 4:08
  6. "Rewind" – 2:59
  7. "2 A.M." – 3:32
  8. "You Lied" – 3:23
  9. "A Study in Economics" – 3:35
  10. "Suffocation" – 2:55
  11. "Easy Answers" (Allister, Hill, Kyle Homme) – 2:55
  12. "The Legend of Pegleg Sullivan" – 2:45
  13. "Potential Suicide" – 3:11
  14. "Alone" – 4:04
Bonus track

The Japanese version of the album, issued through In-n-Out Records, includes a bonus track. The track, sung in Japanese, is a cover version of a 1993 The Boom song.

  1. "Shima Uta" (Kazufumi Miyazawa (宮沢和史, Miyazawa Kazufumi)) – 3:06

Personnel

References
  1. Beringer, Drew (November 20, 2005). "AbsolutePunk - Allister / Last Stop Suburbia". AbsolutePunk. Archived from the original on February 21, 2013. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
  2. Apar, Corey. "Before the Blackout - Allister | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
  3. Rauf, Raziq. "Album Review: Allister - Before The Blackout / Releases". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
  4. Wahle, Sebastian (December 2005 – January 2006). "Allister Before the Blackout CD". Ox-Fanzine (in German). Retrieved February 5, 2021.
  5. "Mest break up". Alternative Press. January 13, 2006. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
  6. "Paramoreee". Alternative Press. March 6, 2007. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
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