 Yuck
Right off the bat this album sounds like
something sitting in one of my many CD towers in the storage
room. The exposed bassline, the repetitive high guitar line
and fuzzed out vocals have at times elements of so many early
90s influences it’s difficult to just pick a few. The first
song, “Get Away,” would fit perfectly in between Dinosaur
Jr. and Smashing Pumpkins
on some college radio station circa 1993. The album continues
in this vein for the first four tracks or so, but then takes
a less attractive turn (at least to me) into midtempo melancholic,
hazy boy/girl territory that still sounds throwback, but not
a throwback to my kind of thang. It recovers on track nine,
“Operation,” but by that point I’m already a little disillusioned
with the whole thing. It’s not as if the album has me saying
“yuck” the entire time (har har), but I’m always disappointed
when tracks one and two are by far the strongest tracks on the
entire album, and from there there’s a precipitous fall off. |
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