Cobra Starship - While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets

I'm shooting my own self in the foot here, at least as a writer. After all, I will still write a few more paragraphs about this album, but at the same time, I feel that it needs to be said from the outset: Don't waste your time on this music. Don't do any research about Cobra Starship. Don't listen to While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets. Honestly, even reading more of this review is more time than you need to spend caring about this hollow effort.

The reality is that While the City Sleeps was easily the worst album of 2006. It should be quite telling that the band's biggest claim to fame was providing the title track to Snakes on a Plane - arguably the most overhyped movie in cinematic history. Yet the movie ended up much ado about nothing and this album is largely described the same way.

Again, the band depends on gimmick to get your attention with song titles like "Being From Jersey Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry" and "It's Amateur Night at the Apollo Creed!" While it's easy to have fun in spurts alongside vocalist Gabe Saporta, the album ends up being too bogged down in its own attempts to be ridiculous - stretching its thin act a bit too much and becoming hard to handle for any prolonged period of time.

The reality is that other bands pull off the gimmick better, if that's what you're looking for. Then again, if you're looking for good music, you didn't give this band much of a shot in the first place.