CRACKOUT are gaining something of a reputation for their hard and heavy metallic pop, having recently been burning up the tarmac in support of www.whisperinandhollerin.com favourites SEAFOOD.
It's not hard to see why "I Am The One" has been doing the business, moshpit-wise, either, as it soon crunches its' way into one of those banner-waving choruses that seem to survive the vagaries of fashion with an inevitability worthy of Irish premier BERTIE AHERNE'S ability to hang on to power.
Unfortunately, "I Am The One" - and its' attendant tracks "Caught Out There" (a dismal, shouty KELIS cover, I'm afraid) and "July" - eventually only prove that CRACKOUT are attempting to pull the wool over our eyes with a cranked amp sound that would have been dismissed as "fraggle also-ran" post-1993.
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Superficially, there's little intrinsically wrong with CRACKOUT: they're well-drilled and clearly quaff from reservoir reserves of power, but this EP is too formulaic and in thrall to far too many previous shoebox-filling grungers to really break any new ground.
And, unless I'm missing something, that's what we're looking for in this game, isn't it? (5/10)
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