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Benjamin Kowalewicz and Ian D’Sa — Southside Festival 2023

Albums & listening

Billy Talent: the debut beyond Try Honesty

The 2003 record starts before its breakthrough single and leaves several different stories after it.

Benjamin Kowalewicz — Southside Festival 2026

Albums & listening

Billy Talent II beyond the familiar singles

Use recognisable songs as landmarks without skipping the rest of the record.

Albums & listening

Hearing Billy Talent III without a sequel test

The Roman numeral locates the release; it does not prescribe your response.

Albums & listening

Dead Silence: follow the sequence, not only the favourites

Remember a longer album session without assigning a score to every track.

Albums & listening

Afraid of Heights: why the title returns at the end

A twelve-track album, a long-developed title song and a reprise that belongs to the sequence.

Albums & listening

Crisis of Faith: a ten-track album with several different entry points

The two-part opener, the credited guest and the actual closing songs help map the 2022 record.

Albums & listening

Watoosh!: the Pezz record and a later vinyl edition

Keep the history of the music separate from the history of its packaging.

Albums & listening

Listen chronologically without confusing reissues

A digital edition date is not always the beginning of an album's history.

Albums & listening

From the debut to Billy Talent II: compare two openings

This Is How It Goes and Devil in a Midnight Mass offer different doors into an album.

Albums & listening

Billy Talent II and III: a change behind the recording

Production credits give the comparison a concrete starting point.

Albums & listening

Dead Silence and Afraid of Heights: reading an album name

A title can guide expectations without explaining every individual song.

Jon Gallant and a camera operator — Rock am Ring 2016

Albums & listening

From Afraid of Heights to Crisis of Faith: a gap with music inside it

A February 2020 studio interview complicates the idea of six silent years.

Albums & listening

Album openers: more than the first song

A brief introduction and a complete song can use the same position differently.

Albums & listening

Hearing album endings: give autoplay a pause

Notice the close of a record before the next recommendation begins.

Albums & listening

A slower route through the Billy Talent catalogue

A listening plan that leaves room for returns instead of racing towards completion.

Albums & listening

After the first favourite: three possible next steps

Move from one discovery to your own selection without demanding the same response everywhere.

Albums & listening

Single or album track: what the label tells you

Release format, familiarity and personal importance are different questions.

Benjamin Kowalewicz and Ian D’Sa — Ruisrock 2007

Albums & listening

Where to start with Billy Talent

Three ways into the catalogue, without turning a listening list into required homework.