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Written by ALANA GRELYAK
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Friday, 01 December 2006 |
Army of Anyone, the new super band with Richard Patrick of Filter and the DeLeo brothers of Stone Temple Pilots, have just released their first self-titled album. Even though notes of both Filter and STP are audible in certain places, the end product can really be compared to neither and the sound here is difficult to describe. It’s almost the same from beginning to end, the virgin sound of the instruments obscured by nothing too computerized. This is the kind of music that will grow on you with each successive listen.
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Army of Anyone
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" Army of Anyone"
(Firm Records)
Released November 14, 2006
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The lyrics, written mainly by Richard Patrick, are pretty melancholy as a whole, and don’t focus on anything too love-laden. The album’s fifth track, “Non Stop” seems to have a message about our country’s misguided leaders. Words like “We pledge allegiance to the mind that’s empty/ An allegiance to a guy that’s unrelenting/They really let us down…It’s aggravated when the country’s sick/Even more from the leadership,” give us a pretty good clue as to what Patrick is feeling about the state of our Union.
Musically, it’s hard to see that these guys are doing anything really innovative unless you listen closely. Strange intervals and melodic lines offer the listener something that takes time to really grasp. “Goodbye,” a song about parting, has a captivating forward motion and a hook that will stick in your head, but for pretty unconventional reasons, and “Father Figure” has a very cool almost tribal rhythm underlying the melody that pulls the whole track together. One would be hard pressed to try and pull any of these tunes off at a karaoke bar.
The eleven songs on this album were chosen out of thirty that the team wrote for what was originally supposed to be a new project for Patrick’s band Filter. “Army of Anyone” is a seamless album, which makes the listener feel as though he’s floating on a cloud of sound. Patrick’s voice isn’t always the main point of interest, which is rare for a singer. It blends in with the other instruments a lot of the time and ends up sounding like he’s really working with them, versus just being backed up. There’s nothing jarring or surprising about any of these songs, but if given time, listeners may come away surprised and interested by what they hear. Powered by AkoComment 2.0! |
