Eve 6: It's All In Your Head : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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Punk poppers can't quite expand their horizons on their third album, radio punk rockers Eve 6 seem to want to improve themselves but keep bumping up against their own limitations of style and substance. Attempted anthems such as "Girlfriend" and "Think Twice" are ham-handed. "Good Lives" intends to be a critique of classism but suffers from maudlin instrumentation and ends up sounding like a pale copy of the group's 2000 prom epic, "Here's to the Night." Singer Max Collins' voice has little edge, and the same holds true for his lyrics: "Hey Montana" implores the slow-living state to reclaim one of its daughters lost in the wilds of the big city, but collapses under Collins' numbing declarations. For all the promise of lessons learned, on It's All in Your Head Eve 6 haven't grown up where it counts.

JON CARAMANICA
(RS 928, August 7, 2003)