“portable”
Portable
Secret Life
TVT
Though “grunge” may be dead (was it ever “alive?” – I mean, most of that dubiousness either fell under punk or metal, straight up; not like anyone really cares anymore…), its cheater slicks still stain the commercial rock toilet bowl, even many years later. Case in point: Portable’s debut album, Secret Life . Not a bad record, certainly not a good one, Secret Life wholly lacks character or distinction other than Portable being a near-browbeatingly “emotional” Foo Fighters counterpart, the sort of “character” or “distinction” that’s all too common in these post-Nirvana times. In that, I guess, there is some merit – after all, the Fighters do need opening bands – but the fact of the matter remains: Whether you might dig the album, wait a few years down the line to buy it, because records like Secret Life will be literally littering the budget/cut-out bins.
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