Blue October - History For Sale

I have to admit I wasn’t really looking forward to this album. I saw Blue October once open for the almighty Toadies and they didn’t really impress me. For the next four years of college, I saw wannabe cool people with Blue October stickers on their trucks and laughed. However, I always try to approach things with an open mind and this time it helped. While moving to a bigger label hasn’t really made these guys explode, it has made their album more polished than the past. Featured in the summer hit American Wedding, the track “Calling You” serves as the album's highlight, appearing in electric form as track four and as a slowed acoustic version as the albums hidden track. “Inner Glow”, “A Quiet Mind” and “Amazing” provide the highlights of what is a slow, yet upbeat record. Not anything extraordinarily unique in its sounds, but just different enough to provide some refreshing moments, History For Sale proves to be an enjoyable ride and a step in the right direction, for a band I had prematurely written off. [www.blueoctober.com]