In spite of past comments in BlogCritics, I've only landed into this musical pastiche days short of a year after its original release and I can hear a clear Oasis influence. Definitely the sounds of the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Black Crowes and Aerosmith can be found here too. Under normal circumstances, I would discard an album that can't make up its own mind, but I admit that the catchy "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" hooked me a while back, so I gave the album a shot.
What I've found in "Get Born" is that most of the upbeat tracks I dig: as a matter of fact, I enjoy them a lot, perhaps because I was first deep into classic rock before listening to other types of music. However, the ballads I could totally live without: a couple of them want to sound like the Rolling Stones and don't go beyond coming across as a ripoff of Poison. The closing track, "Timothy", though on the lighter side of the spectrum, I enjoyed as well.
So the balance seems like a fair 3.5 stars, leaning toward 4 stars. I will most definitely keep my eyes open for any coming works by these Melbourne-based rockers!
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
thanks Manny, nice to see you back - I hear them as disinctly updating the bands you named by going more jagged, kind of along the lines of White Stripes
2 - Mark Saleski
this record reminded me of when rock bands were not afraid to show a littler diversity of sound on a single release.
in particular, it reminded me of the Rolling Stones' "Some Girls". not that it all sounds like the Stones but that it has a lot of different stuff going on.