![]() ![]() But just to hammer home the indistinctness of it all, after its relatively dry start, Young the Giant take a mid-album reverb bath and dial up the distant, delayed guitar leads and tentative tom beats, once again proving that U2 is still the most influential band of all time for those artists who can't think of other ways to conjure atmosphere. Walker" or the sleepwalking harmonies of "I Got". ![]() This sort of purposefully blank approach means that the few songs boasting any sort of frill stand out by default, whether it's the perfunctory slide guitar of "St. ![]() Walker"), but nothing specific enough to prevent them from also selling deodorant. ![]() Sameer Gadhia's vocals, often recalling Chris Martin's trembling midrange, deliver prosaic lyrics that are neither plainspoken enough to reveal simple truths nor evocative enough to scan as poetry- there are passing references to general bummed-ness ("Apartment"), addiction (the rank Cold War Kids karaoke of "My Body"), and prostitutes (the cutely named "St. Choruses become placeholders instead of hooks. Vagueness pervades the album politely distorted guitars twist and churn but never turn into riffs. I don't mean in the sense that it has no artistic precedent- think any form of rock that was called "alternative" despite being completely uninformed by punk, electronic music, or anything actually "alternative." Rather it seems the album's intent is to make no impression whatsoever on the listener: ambient music performed like rock, except nowhere near as interesting as that sounds in theory. But their debut LP exists on a singular plane, in that it's pretty much indescribable. A quintet of Persian, Indian, British, and French Canadian members descent hailing from Newport Beach, Calif., they're signed to Roadrunner Records, which is presumably still eating off the back catalogs of Slipknot and Nickelback. ![]()
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