Sound The Alarm "Stay Inside" (Geffen)
By Nathan Blaney
Friday. Jul 13, 3:58 PM
Keep your expectations realistic.

Stay Inside is the perfect example of how you can do everything right and still have it not “work.” The album seems carefully crafted, produced, and recorded. Very clean and slick a la Stone Temple Pilots or Living Colour. All the elements that should ensure commercial success are in place. Harmless poppy songs that fall somewhere between Live and 30 Seconds To Mars dominate this album. The ONLY time they break from the established mold is to include a couple completely out of place guitar solos. Not sure who thought that was a good idea! Despite all of this, if Sound The Alarm are able to survive this album, they do have their youth to fall back on… they’re barely college age. So given a few years to mature, I’ll bet that we’ll hear something more interesting and original from them. Until then, there’s certainly no harm in checking out Stay Inside… but keep your expectations realistic.
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Nathan Blaney

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