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- Summary: The Alanta-based trio releases its debut album produced by Ben H. Allen.
- Record Label: Killer Pimp
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 11
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Mixed: 3 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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With Fire on Corridor X, All the Saints seem less interested in renovating the house that noise built than burning the whole thing to the ground.
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With ten songs running a hair under forty minutes, it's a concise debut that hits the mark a good portion of the time while introducing All The Saints as someone to really keep an eye on.
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All the Saints pound out lumbering hard rock. And it sounds good.
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What All the Saints lack in rhythmic variation, they make up for with absorbing atmosphere--their sound truly is subterranean, a dimly lit, cavernous rumble that gets more suffocating as the album progresses.
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At its strongest, with songs like the archly titled 'Regal Regalia' and 'Papering Fix,' the band kicks up a huge sounding storm while still providing space for the almost preternaturally clean singing boring through the mix--not as an artificially high volume element, more like serenity in the midst of a storm.
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This drive and disaffection suggest it won't be long before they leave their influences behind, although the raging, self-mythologising 'Regal Regalia' and Floydian pop of 'Papering Fix' are more than good enough for now.
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Everything about this record, from its goopy over-production to its brooding, listless demeanor, suffers from a one-dimensionality that completely prevents connections to the listening audience.