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Chevelle's formula becomes clear a few tracks into their second album. For most of these eleven songs, Illinois' Loeffler brothers -- Pete, Sam and Joe -- lay dark, churning riffs over stuttering brontosaurus stomps. Then Pete struggles with repressed emotions ("I liked having hurt/So send the pain below, where I need it"), and resolves the song -- if not the issues -- with a throat-shredding scream. Not surprisingly, the disc is a mirthless affair. No light enters these midtempo, Sabbath-y monochromes, which suits their subject matter. The message: Express yourself or implode. Few will doubt Pete's sincerity. But songs this charged should offer catharsis. Instead, they sound suffocating. By album's end, he's strumming an acoustic, howling "Am I alone in here?" Some lighter-waving at an arena near you should answer that.
ROBERT CHERRY
(RS 910 – November 28, 2002)
(Posted: Nov 5, 2002)
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Track List
- Family System
- Comfortable Liar
- Send The Pain
- Closure
- The Red
- Wonder What's Next
- Don't Fake This
- Forfeit
- Grab Thy Hand
- An Evening With El Diablo
- One Lonely Visior
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