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Rating: 2/5 Released: July 25, 2006 Reviewer: Trent McMartin |
Forming in the land of cheese and the Green Bay Packers, Wisconsin group Polydream recorded their debut EP with the help of producer Britton Rice, who eventually would become the full-time drummer of the band. As a result, the production is slick and the group sounds clear and crisp, even on the live ‘Got a Good Feeling,’ which could easily pass for a studio recording.
The distraught Default-like rock ballad ‘Everything Else Comes to Life,’ may be the only single of the bunch, and it undoubtedly sounds like anything on Default’s last album or from other such purveyors of humdrum rock, Tonic, The Calling, Theory of a Deadman or Nickelback to name a few.
Unfortunately, although the electronic remix of ‘Catch Me If You Can,’ provides a brief refuge from the mediocrity of the record, the rest of the songs don’t emerge from the stifling influences that hamper them. Polydream does have the skills and potential but they have to follow their own tune.
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