Artist – Album: Drain S.T.H. – Freaks of Nature
Released: 29th
June 1999
Sounds Like: The Corrs if they were a Swedish metal
band
Ah man, I thought I’d left the days of forcing myself to
listen to some European metal band far behind me. However, after a month in which
the standard of the albums has steadily declined, I’ve been left with a choice
between two albums of questionable quality. Lootpack’s Soundpieces: Da Antidote
has its moments (naturally, it comes courtesy of the excellent and prolific
Madlib), but with 24 tracks it is waayyy too long, and I was honestly bored
less than halfway through. The alternative though, is Drain S.T.H., a Swedish
all female metal band, that are critically acclaimed but surely, surely, are shit (just look at that
album cover – it’s like a vampire Dixie Chicks). I found myself facing the
anti-Sophie’s Choice – I want desperately to destroy them both but I must decide
which one will be kept alive by virtue of a blog post.
I surprised even myself for plumping with the girly rockers
but, to be fair, their effort is a lot better than I had assumed. I say that in
a relative sense, I mean, I wouldn’t think to give record a spin again unless
multiple guns were pointed at my head, but it’s not half bad. Their particular
brand of metal is grungey and accessible, having more in common with Alice in
Chains than Slayer, and the vocals have enough of an edge to justify the hard
rock behind them – more like Courtney Love in Hole than Evanescence.
The one huge stinker, ‘Simon
Says’, is a rap metal clash, that presumably was only ever put down as that
type of Limp Bizkit-y rubbish was in vogue back around the turn of the millennium.
In truth though, it’s so horrific that it’s actually quite entertaining and so
it doesn’t make you want to run a mile as it probably should.
Please note, in absolutely, positively, blinking no way am I
recommending this album, but, you know, it ain’t that bad...
Albumaday... rating:
5/10
1. Enter
My Mind – 3:13
2. Alive
– 3:35
3. Simon
Says – 4:10
4. I
Wish... – 4:40
5. Black
– 4:07
6. Crave
– 4:21
7. The
Bubble Song – 3:28
8. Right
Through You – 4:04
9. Leech
– 4:14
10. Get
Inside – 3:23
11. I
Will Follow – 3:40
Listen to ‘I Wish...’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_BwbvLi6_Y
Also released on the 29th June:
1999: Lootpack – Soundpieces: Da Antidote!
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