Critical Me - "promised land"
San Diego California's Critical Me, formed in December 2001 and just now released their debut album. I'm not sure why it took nearly 6 years to do, but the end result is a great punk rock album. In a day and age when the Warped Tour's version of punk doesn't seem to gel with the type of punk music I like, I was happy when I popped this CD in and heard 11 tracks that clock in at just a hair over 30 minutes, and sounded to me like a band heavily influenced by Bad Religion, one of my favorite punk bands. Later reading their bio I saw this, "... our major influences our (sic) Pennywise, bad Religion, and Lagwagon." Yes, Yes, Yes! If there is anything negative to say about this album, is that they sound so influenced by Bad Religion I suspect I could play this for some of my friends and they'd wonder if it was a new Bad Religion CD. But that's really not a negative, is it?
www.criticalme.com
San Diego California's Critical Me, formed in December 2001 and just now released their debut album. I'm not sure why it took nearly 6 years to do, but the end result is a great punk rock album. In a day and age when the Warped Tour's version of punk doesn't seem to gel with the type of punk music I like, I was happy when I popped this CD in and heard 11 tracks that clock in at just a hair over 30 minutes, and sounded to me like a band heavily influenced by Bad Religion, one of my favorite punk bands. Later reading their bio I saw this, "... our major influences our (sic) Pennywise, bad Religion, and Lagwagon." Yes, Yes, Yes! If there is anything negative to say about this album, is that they sound so influenced by Bad Religion I suspect I could play this for some of my friends and they'd wonder if it was a new Bad Religion CD. But that's really not a negative, is it?
www.criticalme.com