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[DJ Fatkid] Evan Brau’s voice is falsetto and scratchy, you keep me alive,” it is obvious that Cage yet on “Down For Days” he’s capable of does what so many current recording producing a warm, convincing tone — a artists fail to do: sing from the heart. 180-degree turn from his Gwen Stefani For those seeking yet another no-tal- m unkaf.u sl screech. The album seems capable, but ent singer with shallow lyrics, search else somehow the band finds a way to make it where; Cage is a genuine artist who could below par. Munkafust has musical talent, teach us all a lesson or two about love, life but it needs to have a purpose. I won’t pin and even ourselves. [Robert Aguirre] the^stigma of rock being dead on it, but it certainly doesn’t help the situation. [Collin M itchell] Mud honey | Hen Cooes Sickness; the Best of the BBC Recordmgs | BBC Music Insert your own fond reminiscence about grunge here, then stick it up your heinie. Grunge is decidedly not dead, and hopefully the slew of recent Mudhoney Munkafust | Down For Days | Pinch Hit anti-mortems is proof positive of this. The newest retrospective of this semi So close, yet so far away. Munkafust’s nal Seatde band (that hasn’t even broken fourth LP release is typical SoCal rock. up yet) is this de facto live album. The Ska rhythms and guitar (thank God, no recordings compiled consist of two John horns) accompany unconvincing nasal Peel Sessions and a Reading Festival vocals to hammer out tunes about psycho simulcast. The obvious touchstone for girlfriends and parties with weird people. Ufehouse | no face name | Dreamworks comparison is From the Muddy Banks of Aspiring to Sublime, but not willing to the W—fuck it, the live Nirvana album. sacrifice its mainstream pretenses (or Maybe the lead singer from Live is an Here Comes Sickness sounds approximately originality), Munkafust continues its ass- Daniel Cage | Load on Earth | MCA organ donor. Maybe he got in a car acci thirty times worse, and this is its strength. backwards attempt at music, which could dent and Jason Wade, the lead singer for This is Seattle rock‘n’ roll at its rawest. prove the notion that rock is quite possi Combining sumptuous sounds with a Lifehouse, got his vocal cords. More real The first Peel session predates the flannel bly dead. soothing voice, Daniel Cage displays istically, maybe Lifehouse heard Live and explosion, and Mudhoney sounds like any Given, there are some highlights on emotional depth in his new album, Loud thought that it sounded pretty good and young basement band that has just this record, but they are buried so deep on Earth. was making a good living, so it decided to learned its songs. The second Peel session under a mishmash of annoying riffs and While some may claim that Cage’s play just like Live. All said, the songs on is cleaner, but much blues-ier, as Mark unsophisticated lyrics that it almost vocal style is similar to John Rzeznik’s of no face name sound amazingly similar to Arm’s voice demonstrates actual soul. A makes it part of the problem. W hat is the the Goo Goo Dolls, Cage proves he can Live’s, except with about half the range word for those about to listen to the problem? Well, there’s no direction or carry his own. Straying from others in his and less diversity. The vocals have those Festival recording; If you find the drum determined form that this band really music genre, Cage is a welcome exception deep raspy undertones and the guitar riffs mer forgetting the beat, the rhythm gui wants to follow. Opening up with a some to the rule due to the variety in his accom1 seem to be about the same. 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For those Every Friday night, they select track you are an avid Live or Creed fan, then be going for it, but the lyrics and song struc who read the liner notes, Anselm Douglas four, crank up the volume, and bask in the your own judge: You might think that it is ture were vintage soft pop-punk inanity, penned this tune, and you can hear the Baha Men’s mind-blowing musical wiz the next best thing. As for me, I think that sort of like, say, Blink 182. “Oppie-ay-I-oyo!” background chorus ardry, beautifully captured by the ques there is a reason that Live is famous and Are we seeing a pattern here? that the American producers mercifully tion, “Who Let the Dogs Out?” Lifehouse is not. [Ben Ebyam] For the stupid: What I think got decided to leave out. Since it is my job, I took one for the recorded here is an album that was inten That said, Hot Caribbean Hits is the team and put this song on repeat in order tionally and stylistically ripped from the equivalent of a tourist brochure for a to analyze this question for Artsweek. local alternative station’s heavy-rotation mammoth resort: big on the sun and W hat did I discover? playlist. For nine of the 13 tracks on visions of party times, but a litde too lack I found complex lyrics like, “ Who let the Public Places, I can name the band being ing in anything that would make you dogs o u tf and of course my favorite, imitated, and I’m sure anyone a little more want to stick around for more than a cou “ Woof, woof, w oof w oof woof" pop savvy than myself could go 13 for 13. ple days. A compilation of dance hall hits Surprisingly, the rest was meaningless All of this makes me a pathetically from Trinidad and Tobago, these are gibberish. starry-eyed devotee of Simins. O f course, songs you probably won’t hear north of a But this song goes way past words; I my interpretation could be mistaken — Cancún disco. soon detected a note of pain and confu he could just be a wretched songwriter. There are some amusing moments. A sion in the voices on the track. After the But I’ll assume the best, and loudly hail “Woody the Woodpecker” sample is used song played about four times, I began to this album as pure, unadulterated post on one track, and the classic Talking feel sorry for the Baha Men, because all modernism. [DJ Fatkid] Heads song, “The Launch,” is used they really want to find out is who is humorously on another. Next vacation, go responsible for releasing the dogs, and no somewhere else. [Andy Sywak] one will tell them. Russel Simins | Public Places | Grand Royal If you have information that could possibly help the Baha Men, please call I am going to posit a theory which will 893-2691 immediately. If your informa hopefully transform what would other tion contributes to a solution, you may be wise be “Most Disappointing Album of eligible for a reward.