I must admit that I made a mistake when selecting this CD by Hot Rod Circuit for purchase. I thought the cover was a photo of someone sitting on the toilet but it turns out that they're sitting on the lip of a bath. Nevermind, it still fits within my "People Sitting" category. I also selected the album for some of the track titles, namely Radiation Suit and The Night They Blew Up The Moon.
Now for the music. The album kicks off with The Pharmacist, a reasonable cocktail of guitar power-pop, not quite Green Day, it actually reminded me of Busted or McFly. I have to admit that I don't really know how Busted or McFly sound as I've happily erased anything I might have accidentally heard by them from any memory, so I might be wrong. I suppose the solution is to say that it reminded me of McBusted. Move on.
Nature's Mercy carries on in very much the same vein, then so does Radiation Suit. Everything is fairly well done, I can't say it glows but it isn't bad enough to make your hair fall out. That's really how the rest of the album continues, an intermittently shouty male vocal with some guitars powering their way each song, not much variety and nothing to get excited about. Consumed By Laziness is a good example, I kind of liked it but it is just not very original.
The production is fine and it is all slickly done but to me it lacks personality and comes across like power-pop-by-numbers, strange for an act on the B-Unique label.
Top Tracks: Now Or Never, Consumed By Laziness
Verdict: Fail - not atomic.
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