Up the Empire - Light Rides the Super Major

This album charges out of the gates with three good to above average tunes, then loses all momentum. Inane song titles such as "Keep Wasting Your Time" along with most of the lyrics here prove to be inadvertently scary. It's as if they are admitting that the "empire" has already won and you might as well go with it (which is probably the truth but the easy way out). The play-on-words song title "This Machine Blows Minds!!!" will have Woody Guthrie rolling over in his grave. The singing here is too loud in the mix and sounds amateurish; there really wasn't much here to keep me coming back for another listen. After the first three tracks which really aren't half-bad, the rest of the album sounds too much the same...especially the beats. It's as if the band are getting tired of themselves by the end of the recording. [myspace.com]