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Someone needs to tell the members of “supergroup” Crash Karma that frosted tips on a 40-year-old man look about as cool as a tight-and-bright onesie on your grandmother. And that whole brooding look with optional aviator glasses? That is so 2001. So it’s fitting that the former wonder-boys of the ’90s rock sound a little dated in this collaboration that includes ex-members of I Mother Earth, Our Lady Peace, the Tea Party, and Zygote.
Hitting the streets this week, Crash Karma sounds like it should have come out in 1996. The kickoff track, “Like a Wave” sounds like it’s been hiding in a bomb shelter since the Stone Temple Pilots debuted on The Fox, and the rest of the album follows with equal mediocrity. “Fight,” the fifth track, has all the triumphant distortion it takes to be part of a bad sports movie’s soundtrack and lines like “Man I used to be” scream of the trite, clichéd lyricism of teen angst. Maybe that’s the exact thing they’re going for.
Well, with all the CanCon fame behind Crash Karma, there’s got to be an audience for this kind of stuff. Unfortunately, that audience is made up of former grunge kids now in their 40s and 50s, and the only place they’re going to discover new music is on The Peak.
To Crash Karma’s credit, if this album is any indication of what the band is always going to sound like, it makes Canada look better than Nickelback does. Let’s just hope they stop taking their beauty tips from Chace Crawford.
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Anyways, I'll take the sounds of the 90's any day over the tuneless, over reveberated shit coming out of the hipster scene or the over produced auto-tune tripe pouring out of every other radio station in the world.
Decent album - good hooks, innovative guitar overlays. Great drumming from Burrows as well. Better than 95% of the crap on the major airwaves.
I have listened through the release and think it is great change from the crap that has been released in the last few years (if I were to generalize). The rhythm section of this band is amazing but I am sure you couldn't hear that in your headphones as they are akin to only reproducing mid and high range or maybe you didn't really listen to it at all.
We'll you can have your rehashed 80's, techno, lo-fi, mashup garbage and I'll take Crash Karma. Thanks.
Lol.
Kristi Alexandra isn't too bright, is she?
Dear Jesus, I'm just a quasi-crappy blogger and I've got better writing skills than this tool.
So, what's she going to say next "AC/DC sucks and should have given it up in 1980."
Sounds like me this tweeb is probably early-twenties and remembers grunge as something that was on the go when she was in elementary school.
FANTASTIC Canadian album. As far as I'm concerned OLP went completely downhill after Mike Turner left the band. IME did well with Brian Byrne and had great energy, but I think there was another member of that band that was the downfall of them.
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"To Crash Karma’s credit, if this album is any indication of what the band is always going to sounds like, it makes Canada look better than Nickelback does."
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