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Candlebox - Into The Sun
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| Rollingstone |
| These Seattle natives hit it big in 1994 with the grungy prom ballad "Far Behind," and 14 years later, they're still reliving alt-rock's glory days. On their first album in 10 years, big-voiced frontman Kevin Martin yowls with hair-flailing aplomb, but the band holds too tightly to the Nineties' slate-gray angst: "Surrendering" banks on shimmery guitars and white-soul verses before careening into a heroically pained chorus, and overdramatic refrains pop up on the title track and the hard-charging "A Kiss Before Dying." Little changes of pace — the Rhodes piano on "Breathe Me In (intro)" and the acoustic backup on "Consider Us" — don't help the cause. Into the Sun may conjure up enough Nineties nostalgia to warrant a county-fair reunion, but it doesn't have much more to offer....full text |
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| Antimusic |
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Candlebox's return to the radio is obviously nothing more than a quick cash in to pay the bills. The whole album sounds phoned in and many of the tracks reach new heights of cheesiness that Candlebox had never achieved before. Where older albums sounded like carbon copies of peers like Stone Temple Pilots (who some would argue were themselves carbon copies of Alice In Chains, who copied Pearl Jam), Into the Sun is just a rehash of those carbon copies. If you're doing the math, that's a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, or Copy X 10(4)… but don't be concerned with those numbers, because the only math Candlebox was doing was figuring out how much cash a radio hit would make for them. The first couple of songs, "Stand" and "Bitches Brewin'" are interesting enough, particularly the arpeggios that outline the first track. But as the album winds on, you can't escape the observation that everything on here has been done by at least one grunge band and even individual songs taken one at a time are difficult to listen to beyond the front-loaded opening. Both "Stand" and "How Does it Feel" steal a bit of the solo from their hit "Far Behind" – you'll know it when you hear it – and even though that solo certainly is their finest hour, I'd consider one blatant self-rip-off to be ridiculous, let alone two on a single album. The closer "Consider Us" tries to take a different approach by leading with a piano part, and it does succeed in closing the album reflectively and pushing off a little bit from the standard grunge formula. But right at 2:41 when the rest of the instruments come in and the vocals are as Axl Rose as possible, you discover the possible motive for this album: Inspired by the possible [inevitable] surfacing of Guns 'N Roses' Chinese Democracy, Candlebox set out to make their own. The only difference is that absolutely nobody cares about Candlebox, but for what it's worth these songs would sound perfect as background music in a strip club, and so will Chinese Democracy. Success?...full text |
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| Therockdose |
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Candlebox’s newest release Into The Sun has been out for almost a week now. I’ve been trying to give it a good hard listen all the way through but with work and working on three blogs to include this one, it’s been kind of difficult. I have listened to it all the way through but with great distractions. Now what I can tell you is that this is no one-off comeback for Candlebox, thrown together with dollar signs in mind. This is going to be a bare-boned, basic review so kind of bare with me… The first single off of Into The Sun, Stand brings us back to the Candlebox we came to love back with the self titled debut. If you’ve heard it on the radio you would immediately know that it was Candlebox because of their signature sound and Kevin Martin’s unmistakable voice. Kevin also reminds us how much he likes the word “Fuck”....full text |
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