Wow! Has it really been fifteen years since American Hi-Fi released their debut record and had a smash hit with \u201cFlavor Of The Weak?\u201d Well, believe, my friends, it\u2019s true \u2013 and to celebrate, the band have re-recorded the entire record acoustically. To some, this might sound like an easy cash grab from a band people can\u2019t believe are still together. But there are moments on here that spark and remind the listener why they liked the original record to begin with.<\/p>\n
Frontman Stacy Jones\u2019 vocals still sound cool and make you wonder if some people ever really age. Tracks like \u201cSurround\u201d and \u201cA Bigger Mood\u201d sound a bit better with the new arrangements. \u201cFlavor Of The Weak\u201d doesn\u2019t improve nor does it get sucky; it still sounds the same, basically just a fifteen-year-old throwback track.<\/p>\n
\u201cHi-Fi Killers\u201d drags a bit until Jones starts screaming near the finale and that\u2019s when the song really picks up and comes alive. You\u2019re not going to hear anything like that on a Simple Plan record, that\u2019s for sure. \u201cMy Only Enemy\u201d is my favorite track on the original disc and the new arrangement here gives it a mellower feel but the original attitude is still present and that\u2019s all I wanted out of the acoustic treatment. The original album\u2019s other main single \u201cAnother Perfect Day\u201d features Jones\u2019 former Letters To Cleo bandmate Kay Hanley on co-lead vocals, which gives the song a new touch. That track ends up being one of the best tracks here.<\/p>\n
Overall, this is an interesting disc but it\u2019s not enough to scream about from the rooftop. I can say that American Hi-Fi is a much better band and have done a better job with this than, let\u2019s say, all these washed up rockers doing acoustic versions of all their biggest hits. (I\u2019m looking at you Trapt, Everclear, and others!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":32744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9827],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-44514","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-american-hi-fi","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44514","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=44514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44514"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44514"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}