LEFT SIDE OF THE BRAIN - FICTION PLANEa
Let’s get it out on the table: Fiction Plane’s Joe Sumner is a dead vocal ringer for Sting, which isn’t a surprise, since he’s the Police frontman’s firstborn. If you can get past that familial resemblance and some other obvious Police references (the “Bring on the Night”-style arpeggio on “Presuppose”), there’s a lot to like on Fiction Plane’s first album since 2003. The martial snap and Edge-y guitars of “Anyone” will sound huge in stadiums when Fiction Plane opens for the Police this summer, while the pogo-ing “Two Sisters” could be the band’s first radio hit. Even if his lyrics occasionally flummox, Sumner has his dad’s way with a melody, be it on rockers like the angry “Death Machine,” the don’t-mistake-sex-for-love tale “It’s a Lie” and the reverb-laden closer “Fake Light From the Sun.”(Bieler Bros. Records) Billboard
