Artist: Days Like These
Album: Charity Burns Green
Label: Lobster Records
Tracks: 11
Length: 39:30
Review by: Phil Nichols

Turn on your radio to your local rock station. Throw a Foo Fighters album into your cd player. Change the channel to MTV and wait for a rock song to start playing. Now you know exactly what to expect with the debut full length from Days Like These. The band says, "Let the music speak for itself." Unfortunately, their music really doesn't say anything we haven't heard before. The instrumentation is decent, but nothing really outstanding. The songs are all written with the same formula, so by the sixth track the album starts to drag. The production is good, maybe a little too good, but that is a matter of personal preference. The lyrics are okay, but there really doesn't seem to be much depth to them. Basically this is just another band with an album that succeeds only in beating the corpse of a horse that died long ago. That said, the album is not a bad listen, it just doesn't have much substance and lacks a special ingredient that will separate it from the other similar acts out there. Until they find that ingredient this band will either be doomed to drown in a sea of carbon copy radio rock bands or worse, end up with their pictures in teenybopper fanzines and a video on MTV.