Tara VanDevender has a breathy, baby voice similar to Mary Lou Lord, but she’s got a band behind her that provides more than an excuse to put out a record.
Dave Smalley has been setting the standard for sensitive rock/punk/pop/hardcore for a dozen years, and this new record just pushes the genre even further.
They play with such spite and sarcastic venom, they make the glossy sneer of the young ‘uns look like the fashion statement I always suspected it to be.
I don’t know why they want to be Filter, but if they keep not doing what they’re good at, perhaps they’ll succeed in being a second-rate flash-in-the-pan.