Smoke Signals
Skin Graft
2004
Rating: 5.5 adult bugs out of 10
Not to be all “when I was a kid things were better blah blah blah”, but I really liked the older Point Line Plane material a lot better. Now I dunno if it was adding a third member or just “growth” as an artist, but something is missing from this newest release. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still decent, just not balls-out awesome like the older material (especially that split release with The Planet The that I bought off of them a couple years back at a show). In a lot of ways, this just sounds like a new Liars record, and I like the Liars, but it just wasn’t what I was hoping for I guess. Too much production is one of the biggest problems, these cats were one of the few bands that actually sound better the dirtier it is. Great album art though.
