CRACKOUT are gaining something of a reputation for their hard and heavy metallic pop, having recently been burning up the tarmac in support of Whisperin' & Hollerin' 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?
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