Up the Dose
- 艺人
- Skrape
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- RCA
- 发行时间
- 2003年10月07日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Johnny Loftus
For its sophomore effort, Skrape seems stuck. They'd like Up the Dose to build fully on the promise of "Goodbye" and "Kill Control" from 2001's New Killer America, tracks that cracked the nu-metal mold with stratospheric vocals from Billy Keeton and slight twinges of Deftones psychedelics. However, Dose can't quite shake a preoccupation with precision. Its every moment is coddled and tweaked with an ear toward marketability, and all of that fine-tuning and dovetailing nearly massage it much too far past a happy ending. Like Trapt's multi-format 2003 hit, "Headstrong" (which shares mastering guru Ted Jensen with Skrape), too much of Up the Dose seems meticulously prepared to please. "Bleach" and "I Can't Breathe" rock barely enough for active radio, but their universal angst ("I can't think when you complicate me") and breathy, layered vocals are an easily consumable kind-of metal pill for the crossover set. The bright "Stand Up (Summer Song)" taps the same formula, but it's at least blatant in its embrace of an I-just-washed-my-dreads, P.O.D.-style mindset. Dose's harder fare does let Skrape rock without as much worry over what nervous ninny suburbia will think. Bassist Pete Sison gives both the title track and "Habit" a powerful, sludgy bottom end, and the guitars of Brian Milner and new guy Randy Melser (who replaces Mike Lynchard) cut and parry with real metal meat. "No Respect"'s multiple vocal tracks are a bit much, but there's real rocking in there somewhere. Up the Dose's best moment might be "Syrup," an atmospheric later-album track that leaves plenty of empty space around its spidery guitars and plodding percussion, capitalizing the chorus when it finally lurches into gear. The song slides in the slime between early Soundgarden and modern metal, and its final, aggressive tempo change only makes it more effective. Up the Dose proves Skrape has the chops to rock outside the box. It just makes a few too many concessions to the homogeny-loving types inside it.
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