Having been disappointed by Orange 9MM\u2019s debut Driver Not Included<\/i>, I stayed away from the band for a while. Then, after hearing a couple of tracks off this record, I tracked it down and started kicking myself. The band came back full force with their sophomore record and this album should go down as one of the best post-hardcore records of the \u201890s.<\/p>\n
Songs like \u201cFailure\u201d and \u201cFire In The Hole\u201d are more radio friendly, but it\u2019s the songs that weren\u2019t singles that are the main attractions here. The title track is just slammin\u2019 with some great music from drummer Matthew Cross, guitarist Chris Traynor and bassist Taylor McLam. Singer Chaka Malik has so much more power than on the first album and his energy just kicks the proceedings up more than a notch.<\/p>\n
\u201c7\u201d is one of the best songs, ever. Seriously. It\u2019s that good! Just find it on YouTube and crank the volume. One will undoubtedly be impressed by the heaviness of the music and how strong Chaka\u2019s vocals are. \u201cDead In The Water\u201d is an interesting twist in the band\u2019s trajectory. More downbeat than anything else on the record, it\u2019s a height that the band hadn\u2019t previously reached. Producer Dave Sardy, at this point still a member of Barkmarket, really helped keep the music clean and Chaka\u2019s vocals rich in the mix, something that set the band apart from all the other post-hardcore bands of the major label era. The fact that Chaka could sing and rap made them all the more impressive.<\/p>\n
\u201cMethod\u201d is the type of song that\u2019s perfect to listen to if you\u2019re really pissed off at the world. It\u2019s just very heavy and aggressive with some great work from the rhythm section. \u201cTake You Away\u201d is another song that separated the band from the rest of the pack. Full of emotion and fury, the band just takes it to another level. How they never became as big as KoRn or, god forbid, Limp Bizkit is a complete mystery to me.<\/p>\n
The band shed guitarist Chris Traynor before the touring for this album began, and they never again regained the heights reached on this record. After one more album, the band split in 2000. After fifteen years, I think a reunion is necessary (that is, if Traynor can find time away from his new gig as Gavin Rossdale\u2019s right hand man in Bush). The moral here is: listen to this album and give this band the props they were denied all those years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":32243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7486],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-43996","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-orange-9mm","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43996"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}