Jeffrey Lee Puckett from the Courier-Journal news paper in Louisville Kentucky has reviewed all three of the "Days Of The New" albums. Click Here to read the reviews.
Kentucky fried grunge from insane hard rocker Travis Meeks and pals.
Days of the New mastermind Travis Meeks recycles warmed-over grunge with pretendions to art-no electric guitars, orchestral interludes that resemble death marches and a Morrison-Cornell-Vedder baritone employed to scream about the pain of existence. But here's the real problem: on Days' disappointing third album, Meeks is intense but never menacing, he rocks but never really catches fire. His darkness just isn't black enough. He sweats through power ballads ("Days In Our Lives"), banshee wails ("Dirty Road"), even a bit of prog ("Where Are You"-imagine a headbanging Jethro Tull). Competent but uninspiring, Meeks sounds like a B-minus student at a rock-god school trying too hard to impress his teacher.
Orange County, California, pop-punk quartet crafts a successful follow-up.
Swept in on the same way that floated Blink 182 up the charts, Lit made a sizeable splash in 1999 with the snarky modern-rock hit "My Own Worst Enemy". There's more where that came from on Atomic, from the guitar-driven kiss-off of "Addicted" to the brash singalong "Everything's Cool". But Lit don't stop there, revealing their softer side with the string-swaddled acoustic number "Happy In The Meantime" and flirting with '70s pomp-rock on "Slip", which suggests Queen covering "Mr. Bojangles". Never mind that the songs themselves are often just run-of-the-mill pop-rock; the arrangements are so flush with guitar hooks and buoyant harmonies that these tunes are entertaining even when they're not catchy.
