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These Seattle natives hit it big in 1994 with the grungy prom ballad "Far Behind," and 14 years later, they're still reliving alt-rock's glory days. On their first album in 10 years, big-voiced frontman Kevin Martin yowls with hair-flailing aplomb, but the band holds too tightly to the Nineties' slate-gray angst: "Surrendering" banks on shimmery guitars and white-soul verses before careening into a heroically pained chorus, and overdramatic refrains pop up on the title track and the hard-charging "A Kiss Before Dying." Little changes of pace — the Rhodes piano on "Breathe Me In (intro)" and the acoustic backup on "Consider Us" — don't help the cause. Into the Sun may conjure up enough Nineties nostalgia to warrant a county-fair reunion, but it doesn't have much more to offer.
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Track List
- Stand
- Bitches Brewin
- Surrendering
- Into The Sun
- Underneath It All
- Miss You
- How Does It Feel
- A Kiss Before Dying
- Breathe Me In (Intro)
- Breathe Me In
- Lover Come Back To Me
- Consider Us
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