Search - Backup Plan :: Dearest Whomever

Sleeper HC Hit 2003

M. R. Kraman | Washington DC | 04/07/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"You ever listen to an album or song and think "hey, I KNOW this band" and then were completely wrong... but not in a bad way? Well the Backup Plan is that band. "Dearest Whomever" at times sounds like the album (or at 19 minutes, should I say EP?) that Kid Dynamite never made. I know other reviewers might debate this point, but while this album is not breaking any new ground, or blending hereunknown genres, or selling records by the truckload, etc. etc., (notchmarks that appear on most reviewers crooked yardsticks), it doesn't detract from the fact that this is a solid album, every track, from beginning to end. You can't help but keep edging the volume up with every song and it's a perfect tonic for what you need to escape from the media whoring of the hair grunge bands that spew on the airwaves today. Definately a band to keep an eye on."