Categories : Music Reviews, Rock + Pop.
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Rating: 1.5/5 Released: September 12, 2006 Reviewer: Trent McMartin |
As 2006 draws to a close it can be said that a lot of innovative and refreshing new music has been made over the course of the past calendar year. Which makes me beg the question, why do bands still have the gumption to release stuff sounding ten years outdated? Not to accuse Canadian group the Midway State of necessarily rehashing a played-out genre (sensitive college rock) that has been long been declared deceased, but how many Ben Folds Five clones does the public need to hear?
The group’s self-titled five song EP offers nothing new. From the lacklustre opener ‘Met a Man on the Top of the Hill’ to the whiney ‘Nobody Understands,’ it’s really difficult to figure out where one song ends and another begins. The introductions to each song are virtually identical.
Someone should tell the Midway State that it’s almost 2007, not 1997. This collection of monotony would fit in better with people who went to college ten or fifteen years ago, not today’s youth weaned on Green Day, Nelly Furtado, Wolfmother and Justin Timberlake. Though I could be wrong … a lot of people did buy that James Blunt record.
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