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Audible Diaries

Track Listings
01 First Amendment
02 More of You
03 Searching For A Purpose
04 Seventeen
05 Take Me Away
06 He'll Be Around 
07 Carousel
08 Paintbrush
09 Down But Not Out
10 Reach Out



Discography
Audible Diaries (2003)
Why? (2000)



  Grace Hotel
  Overall rating: +++-

 

 

Album Review

This is not to say that "Audible Diaries"  is not a good record, rather that it so often threatens, teasingly, to be a whole lot more than it actually ends up being. The Broadcast are at their best when they lose their inhibitions, rock out and allow their influences to gush out. "Searching For Purpose" and "Seventeen" is the creative highpoint of the album.  Lead singer J.R. Denson really sounds at home on the ballad "Take Me Away."  He sings "Wherever I go, no matter how far, I turn around and there you" pretty convincingly if you ask me. Mostly, it pumps and moves along at such a rate that there's little time to focus on the shortcomings of individual tracks. There isn't really a sour track on the whole album.  "Carousel" is kind of bland, but none the less I still enjoy it. On the album as whole I just with they could have taken a few more risks.  And I wish they would have explored their emo tendencies a little more. Hopefully on their next release they will stop sounding like other bands and take on a sound they can call their own. 

~ Anthony P. Hanna

   

 

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