Snowdogs have been compared with Bush, Offspring and Placebo, presumably by people who haven’t heard the album. This is their first shot at the big time, on the recently rejuvenated Track Records; unfortunately, for the moment, they appear to have missed.
It all starts well, with “Are You With Missy?” providing what is undoubtably the highlight of the album, but it goes fast downhill from there. Tracks along the lines of “All I Said” and “It Don’t Add Up” provide guitars and lyrics cheesy enough to send a shudder down your spine – “Alright! OK!” is worth listening to for comedy relief if nothing else.
Throughout the album, though, you get the idea that the Snowdogs are capable of so much more. “Radio Me” is a prime example of this – it’s not brilliant by a long way, but the feeling of a great tune waiting to break out pervades the whole track; they just never manage to set it free. The same goes for “Here’s Me…”, the only other half-decent offering on the disc.
All in all it’s not the best purchase you’ll ever make, but it shows what the Snowdogs are capable of if they put their heads together. If this was a school report it’d have “Could Try Harder” scrawled at the bottom in red pen.
Dan