Flaw, a nu-metal band from the early 2000s, started a quasi-successful reunion in 2015 before dwindling down to two original members. On this new EP, they are just trying to keep their name alive. Three studio songs and a couple of live tracks are all that you get here. Everything just comes across as okay.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll Carry You\u201d is a good melodic song that rises above some of the other nu-metal wannabes and actually sounds pretty damn good. It\u2019s definitely the highlight of the album. \u201cFall Into This,\u201d on the other hand, is quite bland and doesn\u2019t do anything. It just kind of sits there and stays \u2013 no excitement, no nothing. \u201cMy Style\u201d is the blandest of them all; the thing sounds like it was recorded in a rehearsal hall, very flat and not very exciting either. Flaw was big around 2001-2002 and then fell off very quickly. This is a band that now sounds like Five Finger Death Punch, and who really wants to sound like that now?<\/p>\n
The guitar work on the live tracks sounds really good, but that\u2019s about it. There is not much to recommend here unless you\u2019re looking for something that beats you over the head relentlessly with metal. The revision of the band\u2019s first big single \u201cPayback\u201d sounds a bit ridiculous now because the song is incredibly, poorly dated at this point. Hearing it now only lends more credence to that notion. <\/p>\n
Overall, there\u2019s not much here. Actually, it seems kind of lame to release this, but I guess they wanted to keep themselves in the public eye so they don\u2019t end up forgotten once again. Apart from one song, there isn\u2019t anything to recommend. This is the type of disc that winds up in the discount bargain bin within three months of its release and frankly, that\u2019s where it belongs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10061],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-45082","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-flaw","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45082","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=45082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45082"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}