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Split Habit:
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Chicago threesome Split Habits press kit praises the band by declaring its status as expertly crafted power pop, and showers it with comments such as drips profusely with crunchy power chords, irresistible hooksand candy-coated harmonies. The biggest problem with that is that I cant really disagree with any of it. Split Habit sounds like a slightly harder (at points) version of Blink 182, only if you can imagine it more over-production. Each song is built around a slightly imaginative hook, and then a chorus with a melody sure to burn itself into your brain. Now on the surface, theres nothing wrong with that. The problem is that they dont go anywhere once theyve stuck their song in your head. Its sort of like processed American cheese. Wrapped up in individual plastic wrap, each radio-friendly song on this album tastes like it could have originally come from a cow with some sense of originality, but all that individuality was then quickly squeezed out through the udders by a money-hungry record exec, then run through a large processing plant, then excreted at the end of the line by a CD stamping machine. Along the way, it was drained of all its original nutrition, the point of the cheese in the first place. However, little kids will eat these hooks like candy. Theyll go great on a little sandwich platter on your radio dial right to the left of the ones with pimento, to the right of the neo-metal, every two or three flushed down with a slightly over-fruity radio DJ cranberry punch. If youre a Disney Channel TV Movie director looking for a song to play over a montage of your slightly-edgy teens touring Chicago, then, by all means, get the rights to one of these songs. However, if youre a music connoisseur looking for rib-eye steak, you wont find what you want here.
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