The Airborne Toxic Event
Like Toadies'
Possum Kingdom back in the day, this is a one-track
purchase. "Sometime Around Midnight" was certainly
less ubiquitous, but it was hard to miss the several televised
performances of this track complete with a swelling string section,
loud/soft dynamics and a great pop sensibility. The rest of
the album was negligible as long as you had that one single.
Of course back in the Possum Kingdom day, you could
have bought one of those ill-conceived CD singles or taped it
off the radio, I suppose, but otherwise you had to shell out
for the whole album. These days, with iTunes and all the other
legal and illegal ways to come by your favorite tracks, that's
less of an issue. The majority of this album feels like a tepid
amalgam of The Killers and The
Strokes kind of mashed up into a major label weak sauce
fest. They clearly hitched their star to this one song and filled
in the blanks with a bunch of rote tunes penned by a dude with
very few original ideas. So if you're in love with that one
track and still have that Sanyo boombox handy, I suggest investing
in the cassingle, though given the generally unenthusiastic
reception of the album on a whole, you may be able to pick up
the CD in whatever passes for a bargain bin in this day and
age. |
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