Artist: The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Album: Don’t You Fake It
Release Date: July 18, 2006
Bands like The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus need to wake up every morning and thank God for bands like Hoobastank. If it weren’t for Hoobastank, RJA would probably be winners of the “Worst Band Name” Award, as well as the “Most Hackneyed Group” Award. Let’s be real; whereas Hoobastank is a pretty clear-cut clone of Incubus, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’s debut album cocks a blender and throws everyone from Linkin Park to Avenged Sevenfold to the angsty screamo band du jour into the mixture. And yet at the same time, Don’t You Fake It isn’t a complete journey into the realm of awful music. “Face Down” is one of the few rock-radio staples that never really got moldy, and when the band goes for sentimental on “Damn Regret” it comes off just charming enough to work. The in-betweens of tracks like “Seventeen Ain’t So Sweet” and “False Pretense” muddy these smooth waters with paint-by-numbers crunching and screams, but in the age of the iPod, RJA get a couple chances to shine, provided you’re not looking for groundbreaking material from the band.
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Damn Regret [iTunes] (YSI)
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Filed under: Album A Day | Tagged: 2000s, Album A Day, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
