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Staind - Chapter V
We’re up to album five from these guys (hence the title) and from the professionalism and craftsmanship involved, it certainly sounds like it. Each track has it’s fair share of decent guitar work and heavy riffage. An echoing effect on the guitaring nicely compliments the vocals; this can give the album quite a melancholic and at times atmospheric sound. It can also slow the pace of the album, however, and I would be interested to hear previous material to gauge how much the vitality of the band has changed, if at all. I’d have to compliment the slick production; the album has a great sound to it, really making use of the guitars.
However, despite this, the whole rhythm section is really quite basic. It may be well mixed, but if your bassist is only playing simple chords and the drummer isn’t pushing himself, you’re left with a part of the band which is there solely to accompany the guitars and vocals. You may wonder what’s wrong with that – well it seems like a bit of a waste, if you ask me…however it seems to work for Staind.
So I’ve said all this, but what do they actually sound like? If you’ve heard songs like “In the End” by Linkin Park you’ll get a good idea, they have that sort of sound to them. Their market? Well in my experience, these songs are the sort of thing younger rock chicks would know all the words to – don’t get me wrong, there’s something in there for men folk as well…or lads anyway.
- Staind
- Chapter V (2005)
- Category: Album
- Label: WEA
- Reviewed by: The Manager
- Published on: 07 Sep 2005
- Comments: 0
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Add to favouritesThe difference being that Staind definitely maximise on that teen-angsty-I-get-picked-on-at-school vibe for the lads and lasses. Rather than what blokes like me want to hear – songs about jumping on bikes and women, swigging copious amounts of beer or ‘im downstairs. If you get a song with all three in, then that’s by a band like Motorhead, and you can’t do much better.
Maybe because of my personal preferences, I lost a bit of my concentration towards the end, but it seemed to me that by the time you get to track 12, most of the songs had blurred into one. Mrs Manager started off saying she liked it, but by the end she was getting a bit fed up, I could tell (I’ve been trained over the years to spot the tell-tale signs, sometimes with the cattle-prod). There are some tracks that stand out over the others, but they do get lost in with the sameyness of the rest of the album.
STAIND? FOR THE YOUNG ‘UNS…
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