Artist: Strike Fire Fall
Album: Still Life
Label: Takeover Records
Tracks: 14

Length: 44:18

 

 

 

It’s always hard to review an album that you feel indifferent towards. I have been listening to this album over and over, putting off the review much longer than I am allowed to trying to give the album time to “hit me” and it hasn’t.

 

Still Life reminds me of those mid-nineties modern rock albums that went platinum and then the band went on to relative obscurity (despite the fact that they kept making music). The problem is it’s the mid-00’s now and this sounds pretty run of the mill because we have heard it a million times before.

 

That’s not to say though that this album is bad because it’s not. The album’s opener, “Cadillac,” is a catchy rock number that makes you tap your feet and bob your head a little for sure. “Awkward Pose” has a nice barroom rock swing that quickly transitions into a poppy go lucky, Green Day influenced, ditty (sans the sax solo). The opening chug a chug chug of “Say Hello” is nice as well and the band delivers better on this song than probably any of the others. It’s not like the band doesn’t sound like they are trying, it just barley rises to mediocre.

 

Fans of the current crop of indie rock (the words that replaced “modern rock”) will probably like this album well enough but don’t expect anything even a tad different from what you have already heard.