Sci-Fried is, at its core, a Southern rock band hailing from central and south Florida. For those that have heard the band’s music, the realization, of course, is that there is so much more to it than that. With feet firmly planted in nerd culture and tongue (mostly) planted firmly in cheek, Sci-Fried is looking to boldly take rock music where no rock music has gone before.
To that end, Sci-Fried continues to cover just about every bit of nerd and rock ground imaginable. With their newest release, Future Tense, the band reaches for lofty heights and, more often than not, reaches its goals.
The three very strong and diverse tracks that really set the tone for the rest of the record are “LV-426,” “Chosen One,” and “Foiled Again (feat. Marc with a C').” “LV-426,” an homage to James Cameron’s Aliens, is a sludgy stomper that encourages headbanging and mayhem, exuding the bluster and bravado of the Colonial Marines. “Chosen One” is a playful attempt at Nerdcore with a fuzzy chorus that adds just the right dynamic to make it really fun. “Foiled Again” is an alterna-blues number aided by Marc (with a C)’s vocals that conveys both the silliness and sadness of the constant defeats of the arch-enemies of the Super Friends.
That diversity, in terms of subject matter and style, are what make this album stand out. Covering so many styles within rock and branching out to such an extreme would seem to be a near-suicidal move for a band releasing its third album. Holding it all together is a cohesion and focus that comes from dedication to craft rarely seen nowadays. Added to that, there is a tangible sense that all the guys are having a blast singing about the cartoons, games, shows, movies, and comics they grew up with and have now parlayed in to a music career. The idea that someone could pull this off and be successful at it is not lost on the band in the least, and that feeling of enjoying the moment comes through on each song.
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