MODERN MINDS AND PASTIMES - THE CLICK FIVE
Twenty-seven years ago, the J. Geils Band proclaimed “Love Stinks.” But fellow Bostonians in the Click Five apparently never got the word. Despite a few buoyant moments, the quintet’s sophomore album is an emotional wasteland of broken hearts, unrequited affection, tortured souls, confused minds and such flip-floppy revelations as “It we stay together/It could get worse/Then again it could get better.” But this is still a pop band at heart, and one that has a new singer (Kyle Patrick, a somewhat weightier frontman than predecessor Eric Dill) and a wider sonic palette from which to draw. More derivative than distinctive, there album offers forays into ’80s-style electro pop (”Addicted to Me”) theatrical modern rock a la Panic! at the Disco (”When I’m Gone”) and prototypical power balladry (”The Reason Why”). Source: Billboard
