Album Review - Everclear - Welcome to the Drama Club
John Metzger
Being older than one's peers certainly has its advantages. For Art
Alexakis, it means that the material that he has penned for Everclear
has had far more depth and substance than the work of his rivals in the
post-grunge scene. Though the group since has been revamped, its latest
endeavor Welcome to the Drama Club largely employs the same template
with which Alexakis has been working for some time, and it further
refines the musical and lyrical themes that he explored on both Songs
from an American Movie and Slow Motion Daydream. In a similarly
effective fashion, he weaves together cautionary odes from father to
daughter, personal confessions, and empathetic tales about average souls
who have been damaged by life and subsequently have lost their way.
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