Title: Break the Silence
Artist: Fast Foolish Flies
Genre: Grunge
Release Date: 22nd March 2010
Label: AFMusic
Album Review
Ah, looks like these guys didn’t get the memo. Kurt and Layne are dead. I know Eddie Vedder is still hanging around like a bad penny, and Dinosaur Jr pop up occasionally but Grunge died a while ago, if it ever existed anyway. Let’s face it Grunge is more of a geographical marker than an actual sound. So when I see a band use “Grunge” to describe themselves, it sends off alarm bells immediately. But you never know… they could be Mudhoney devotees?
The opening bars of the title track ‘Break the Silence’ shatters all hope. The sound is somewhere between CREED and NICKELBACK topped off with bad production and a shoddy mix. ‘Fall’ has a pretty nice bit of guitar work but the drums sound like they’re off in a tin can and the vocals dominate the mix when they really need to be re-done. ‘Mary’ opts for a more chugging riff and to have the vocals mixed correctly - the first song on the album that is constructed correctly, but unfortunately it’s the most generic of the four. The final track ‘Discharge’ sounds lumbering, like a hair metal band trying to get into the Alt Rock scene - the chorus works really well though.
For a band that’s been around since 1997 this is very amateurish. The production and mixing is bad throughout. The songs don’t seem particularly well written or even that well thought out. There are minor moments of enjoyment to be had but unfortunately they’re buried beyond the point where the casual listener would bother digging.
Tracklist
01. Break the Silence
02. Fall
03. Mary
04. Discharge
Line-up
Christian Settli
Roar Foss Pedersen
Rune Antonsen
Åsmund Felberg Johnsen
Tommy Lien
Fredrik Ringdal
Websites
www.myspace.com/fastfoolishflies2
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 3
Sound: 3
Extras: -
Total: 3 / 10
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