Monday, July 30, 2012

SAUCER - TORONTO, ONTARIO

I'll just throw this out there: I know none of the inner story of this band. That being said, I was perusing eBay a while back and came across this album. The description claimed they had a Squirrel Bait sound I just can't pass that up. A Google search yields nothing for this band. Nada. I assume this is because they're from Canada. (kidding)

 Let's dig in here. Saucer DOES have that classic punk-grunge sound going on. The vocalist does a great job emulating the raspy vocals you would look for in this genre. But that's just it, the whole band seems to be trying to hard (or not hard enough). Most of the tracks on this album come off as sub-par songs from a decent 90's punk pop band. That's not to say Sin 01 is a bad album, but definitely not great. The opening track "Gun Metal Grey" is a solid song. The opening riff is searing, and the vocals are raspy and desperate. The end of the track is intense and filled with the raunchy feedback of your standard punk fare. Skipping to "Among the Colours" we see the band make an attempt at a more romantic sound. Not bad. The rest of the album sort of carries on in this way with bits of hardcore stuck in different places. I can't figure out which direction they were trying to go with this release but I digress. "Green" is a fairly solid track. The alternating tempos give a great the song a dangerous feel which is fantastic. This song seems to contain the most musicality of any track on the album and it works out well. It almost hurts them in the end though, because if they had put that much work into their other songs this would have been a better album. I'll leave you with that.

I do hope you'll enjoy this release! It isn't bad by any means, but it's not great. Leave some opinions in the comments!



Pick it up here:
Saucer - Sin01

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Getting back on track

Let's get this thing going again. Updated some download link and getting ready to post some new material. Stay tuned.