Categories : Music Reviews, Rock + Pop.
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Rating: 2.5 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue |
You may remember The Odds, the Vancouver based alt. rock band that formed 1991, broke up in 1999, and short of a pair of Greatest Hits releases haven’t been heard from since, until now. Reforming under the moniker The New Odds for their first new release in twelve years the band will test the waters again and try to find out whether or not they’re still relevant after all this time.
With Cheerleader the first thing that comes to mind is that The New Odds collectively decided to play this one safe. The result is a record that, though not particularly bad in any way, doesn’t have anything particularly spectacular about it either. In fact, ‘Leaders of the Undersea World’ proves to be the only really interesting track on the record, and the only one that separates itself from the rest of the album. That song aside Cheerleader tends to blend together into one long, monotonous effort.
Staging a decade-in-the-making comeback to the industry can be a very difficult task, as many bands before The New Odds have proven. Keeping that in mind, we might charitably look at Cheerleader as an effort to knock the dust off.
