Your views on recent reviews?

Posted by: Gavin B on 12 April 2002

Here are couple of albums I've picked out from recent reviews. Would anyone like to pass on thoughts , opinions etc.?

Love As Laughter - Sea To Shining Sea
Drowning Pool - Sinner
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
Rival Schools - United By Fate

and in a less heavier frame..

Clive Gregson - Comfort & Joy
John Schofield - Uberjam
Josh Rouse - Under Cold Blue Stars

Thanks

Gavin

Posted on: 12 April 2002 by ejl

The Drowning Pool record is pretty good. These guys have been around for years on the Texas scene but don't seem to have made many (any?) albums. Like Tool but with far better guitar riffs (Tool's guitar riffs are dreadful, IMHO, although slightly improved of late). A bit too slick production-wise, however.

Uberjam is "nice". Very bottom-heavy bass on most tracks, which veers on being overdone but is good for shaking the house. This feels like an album that was mixed on mini-monitors ("give it more bass, I still can't hear it") However, after 3 or 4 hearings it still hasn't really grabbed me.

Don't know the others -- let us know what you think