Meh. Very meh.

If I was Kevin Wade, that would be my review.

Unfortunately, I'm not Kevin, and this needs a bit further of an explanation. Next in Line are doing the halfway-radio-friendly pop-rock thing on an independent label, and it's not working. The songs sit in a mid-to-down-tempo state and do nothing out of the ordinary, save for the moog in "Frequency." With the good production, it comes off like an old Eve 6 album with less hooks...and Eve 6 isn't that good. The song "000" has that *tick, tick* noise from Fox's excellent "24" at the beginning and end, and both clips end up being the most interesting bits of the full-length. The lyrics weakly delve into introspective looks at one's youth, relationships, everything that would encompass the whole nine yards for this genre.

It was cool when Catch 22 did it on "12341234," but spending 13 minutes at the end of the last song thanking people instead of using the liner notes for it is a bit ridiculous, even when you splice short audio clips of bands you thank.

Next in line, please.

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"Michigan"
"Nil'd"