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Tenth Planet
The Prophet Curse
Independent
Someone should tell Tenth Planet that grunge has been dead for over 10 years.
The latest EP from this Toronto quartet probably would have sounded great if it had been released in 1992 when this musical style was actually relevant. Here, it sounds hopelessly and laughably dated.
To his credit, singer Martin Ouellette does reasonably impersonate Alice in Chains’ Layne Staley on the disc’s six tracks. The lead off song ‘Shadow’ opens with a murky sounding bass line that sounds like it was lifted from AIC’s ‘Would’. The EP even features a couple cheesy power ballads, something that’s almost de rigueur for modern rock acts. ‘We Are The Cause of Everything’ and ‘Do You Remain?’ will doubtlessly be lapped up by fans of Nickelback and Theory of a Deadman.
The worst offender is the final track, ‘Overboard’; a song that blends all the elements needed to score a mainstream hit into a bland whole. Strings? Check. Angsty vocals? Check. Quiet loud/loud structure? Check. Something that had this writer reaching for the skip button? Check.
A collection of generic bread rock tunes that couldn’t leave my CD player quickly enough? Check and double check!
- Dean Sarrasin
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