Liar's Academy - Trading My Life

It's unfortunate that Trading My Life was releasing in October and not in a more summer-esque month like say.. July.. because it's an upbeat little rock EP that would work well as a nice backdrop to a roadtrip or hanging out with friends at a cookout. It's also unfortunate for Liar's Academy that this EP is only average at best. The first track "Trading My Life" is the standard college bar rock song that could surely land the band a spot in some teen movie playing as the cool "local kickass rock band." The catchiest song of the four is "Chainsmoke the Night Away" and shows that the band has some promise of growth beyond their standard verse-chorus-solo-chorus setup. Overall, the disc sounds very professionally recorded, well mixed, and packaged very well. The songwriting is good but still constrained by songs like "It's Not Me, It's You." It's a very honest rock effort, and worth downloading some samples to check out, but overall it would work best categorized into your "Play In Background When Socializing Is More Important" stack of CD's. [www.liarsacademy.com]