Better Than Ezra - Before The Robots
jamie on June 1st, 2005
Woo-hoo! Months of waiting, and the BTE is finaly out (except- with the holiday, I forgot what day it was, and didn’t realize until late latst night that it was a new music Tuesday)! I remember when I first heard Closer, that it didn’t click with me right away. Today, it’s probably my all-time favorite album to play for singin’-and-drivin’. So when I say that I’m not immediately in love with Before The Robots really doesn’t mean all that much. In fact, on only my second listen, I’m starting to like it more already. That being said, Before The Robots is a darker, more cynical album than Closer. BTE returns maybe a bit to the days of Friction, Baby with dark, hauntingly melodic tracks like Daylight, Overcome, and A Southern Thing. Tracks like A Lifetime, Juicy and Burned bring up the mood of the album considerably. Hollow is one of those sing-along-at-the-top-of-your-lungs tracks that Closer was so ripe with. In the end, I have to admint that it would be very hard for me to not like a BTE album. The songwriting talent of Kevin Griffin is so pure- the heart-on-your-sleeve lyrics and pop-infused rock progressions (G-D-Em-C is the key to most BTE hits) is a formula that works.
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