Three Days Grace - 'Three Days Grace' (BMG)
3/5
By: Clara Burtenshaw
A breakdown in innovation. This self-titled album from Canada's Three Days Grace is woof and warp in line with the sort of alt-rock churnings that bands such as Puddle of Mudd and their numerically paralleling 3 Doors Down have been peddling for the last few years.
And wouldn't you know it just from glancing at the track-list; songs such as 'I Hate Everything About You' and 'Let You Down' are the angst-ridden anthems that their nomenclature suggests, sure to leave many an emo-girl crying and rocking in the dark, but doing - as ever - nothing to break the thrashy mould set by their elders.
Mention, however, must be made of the intense and immediate riff that opens 'Scared' one of the album's highpoints, which takes more than a passing influence from mighty masters of the genre, System Of A Down - no desperate feat.
So, despite the fact this has been done before - and better - Three Days Grace are cynically good-looking young men, sure to be hailed 'alt-rock heartthrobs' soon after the release of this first exertion. In a few years' time, and perhaps some facial hair later, we might expect something a little less conventional.
Artists in this article: Three Days Grace
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