House Of Fools "Live and Learn" (Drive-Thru)
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Wednesday. Mar 14, 10:30 AM
Risk-free alt-country pop.

Live and Learn is not an album that will make you ponder, nor is it an album that will inspire. Simply speaking, it runs the gamut between very old Ben Folds Five and the exceedingly worst of the ‘90s musical sensation, Fastball.

To further explain: no great risks were taken in the recording process and similarly not in the songwriting either. No extreme breakthroughs, no “fresh/new!” sounds, no new styles. Just pop/rock coated in preset synthesizers, lightly distorted guitars, bass and generic drums with a barber shop quartet singing in the hallway (I’m picturing a high school gymnasium).

Maybe I’m making it sound cooler than it really is?

To be honest, I first listened to House Of Fools on a Sunday morning in the midst of a hangover. My initial reaction was the opposite of intrigue. But as I came to my senses and sobered up, I realized that the only thing I disliked about this album was its lack of an attempt to be fresh. It is something that any parent would want their kids to listen to. It is harmless. You have heard this before and will forget about it soon afterward.
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John Butler

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