Deepfield: Archetypes And Repetitions

Judging this South Carolina outfit by its sartorial choices alone, you can tell the kids really want to make the big time––the perfectly coiffed hair, the tight black pants and sullen looks say it all. Of course, the music contained within the digital grooves tells a slightly different story. "44 Teeth" owes more than a little to Tool, though it's got a bold boogie at its core that Maynard and the boys couldn't get going with a manual and "Wayside" offers a fairly fresh take on contemporary radio rock although, it, like too many of the tracks here, explodes like a vomit piñata once its reaches the chorus and that's where Deepfield falls a little short of the big time. We've heard this kind of faux earnestness time and time again in the last decade or so, thanks to the likes of Buckcherry, Silverchair and Three Doors Down. Deepfield doesn't sound exactly like those bands––"Fall Apart" alone is greater than three "Crazy Bitch"-sized hits and "Dreams," like "44 Teeth" before it, demonstrates that there's some excellent songwriting potential here––but it sounds close enough that it's hard to recommend this album without wondering aloud what it adds to the larger musical canon that isn't already there. The answer? Not much. At least not yet. Perhaps a little more focus on craft and a lot less on commercial potential will serve this promising band well.

Track Listing
1. Innocence
2. 44 Teeth
3. Get It
4. Wayside
5. Fall Apart
6. The Bleeding
7. Into The Flood
8. Your Forever
9. The Silence
10. Dead Horse
11. Dreams
12. Don't Let Go

Added: July 27th 2007
Reviewer: Jedd Beaudoin
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