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Firstly, I just love this name - "Sacrifice
Isaac" - I mean, where'd they come up with it? Secondly,
for some reason I find it almost hard to believe that they're
from the Midwest - Kansas City to be exact. I suppose my bias
won't allow me to grasp that something other than stray wagon
wheels and rusted gold pans could be replaced by anything remotely
resembling a wailing guitar and fast-action drumming.
With a sound reminiscent of some of rock/alternative's
most prominent artists, along the lines of Jane's Addiction and
Tool, "Sacrifice Isaac" is everything rock radio searches
for, but that's not to confuse them with being in a class with
either of the above two. The problem I had with this disc is
that too much of it lacked originality and starved for something
to just pick it up off the ground. After the first few tunes,
it was like the music just laid there like a band of loose wire
with nothing to connect them to, though it seemed to re-generate
itself toward the last quarter of songs.
"Sacrifice Isaac's" got enough
to unload a single or two that commercial radio will quickly
jump on, but as with many of these prototypes, their longevity
will fade about as quickly as it takes for the A&R dept.
to land the next newcomer that can abuse a guitar chord and whine
and wail like a pack of nervous plains Indians.
Now, in actuality, about a third of "Migraine"
possesses some true quality where the driving rhythms and gritty
vocals intersperse to create something a little more inspiring
to the listener, as in "1000 Years Worth," "One
Good Stick," "Bludgeoned" and "Black Cloud."
Aside from these, the rest can be tossed aside to fertilize the
agricultural soil.
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