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...they prepare to head to this weekend’s Ladyfest, where they will likely be the youngest band to perform, Plan B have tried to uphold a tough schedule of five weekly practices. They have found a regular practice space in Winthrop House and have upgraded much of their equipment, all the while trying to balance band commitments with schoolwork...
...band members say that they have found increasing support from other student bands and are looking to make the scene more welcome to other would-be upstart groups. Johung says Plan B would like to foster a “better network of equipment sharing” to counter what was their greatest problem when they began, hopefully spurring more groups to form...
While in concept the new album is worthy of the Cake name, the songs themselves have lost the power of past albums. The band has adopted a more pop sound that makes the fith track, “Carbon Monoxide,” written about public transportation in L.A., sound like a Green Day creation. Against a setlist of old and new from Cake, their newest tracks brought out power chords that only add to the band’s changing face. The new sound is not only the fault of a bassline-in-hiding and weak hooks...
...McCrea, but most seemed to know the words to songs released as early as 1994. While “Pressure Chief” marks a significant turn in the band’s evolution, old fans can still cling to their old work, while a newer audience discovers the band...
While some bands excel at pulling off a sound that is consistently bad, this album manages to be bad in an impressively divisive array of different vibes and song structures—though the falsetto vocals serves as the bedrock of vapidity that they continue to fall back on throughout the songs. While “7 Daughters” starts out with potentially awesome-sounding Nintendo tracking, the boring song structures and hipster vocals fail to move anywhere. The song “X-Polynation” shows the potential to be a people-mover with its initial driving...