3 Years Hollow
The Cracks
Review by Gary Hill
This band hails from my home state of Illinois. This album shows that they are quite talented. The disc they’ve produced is right up there with the best of them. It’s just that the style of music they do (hard edged, aggressive yet melodic rock) is one of the more generic sounds these days. It seems that so many bands do that style and most of them sound very much alike. These guys suffer from that.The main thing that keeps this interesting is the vocals. They are well beyond their peers in terms of emotional and powerful singing. Still, the lack of originality (which is a trademark of this type of music) and the overall similarity from song to song keeps these guys from really standing out much. I hope they can develop a more original sound because these guys are great and deserve to stand out.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2014 Volume 4 at lulu.com/strangesound.
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