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Alter BridgeOne Day Remains Sony I was never really one for Creed's music, despite their massive success in the charts. The lyrics were hackneyed, the music behind them simple and unexciting, and Scott Stapp's voice never really changed from his one painful croon of. Relevance, you may ask? Alter Bridge is three quarters of Creed (Stapp, thankfully, replaced by new lead vocalist Myles Kennedy), and unfortunately they're exactly as cringeworthy as the band they replace. Although there have been a few positive steps, such as Kennedy's unquestionably more varied vocals (which move close to the territory occupied by Chris Cornell) and a supposedly 'harder-edged' approach to the music, these are far outweighed by the sheer boredom generated by track after track of what sounds like the same song. Lead single Open Your Eyes is 'classic' Creed with a new singer and strains patience with its continuous lyrical variations on "once I was lost, now I am found" and dead-standard hooks; Burn It Down initially sounds much more interesting than it actually turns out to be and like the other 'heavy' tracks on the album, Watch Your Words and Metalingus, strains under its own weight; it's Creed attempting Metallica riffs with half the expertise and none of the power. The fluffy lyrics (eg: Metalingus' "Fear will kill me, all I could be / Lift these sorrows / Let me breathe / Could you set me free, could you set me free?") do nothing to help the situation. By the time the album reached the obligatory deep, reflective cliches (sorry, ballads) Broken Wings and In Loving Memory, I was ready to turn off; when it ticked over to the closing track The End Is Here, I was thankful. The music-loving public may well not be, however. If you love layered, creative and original music, you'll hate Alter Bridge.  |
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