Everything Will Never Be OK
Fiction Plane
Fiction Plane get a lot of Nirvana and Police comparisons. That’s due to their lyrical approach (song titles include “Everything Will Never Be OK,” “Everybody Lies” “Sickness” and “I Wish I Would Die”) and frontman Joe Sumner’s vocal similarity to Sting, who happens to be his father. While Sumner’s occasional yelps sound eerily like a young Sting, Fiction Plane is far from Soul Cages material. The band is more energetic, for one, and they’ll probably never be accused of nap-inducing VH-1 pop. That’s not to say the Police comparisons are a bad thing. The band was a shot in the arm for rock, injecting some much-needed depth and breadth in terms of arrangements and influences. The same can be said for Fiction Plane. No, they’re not going to “save rock” the way Nirvana did, and the musicianship isn’t at Police levels, but it is a new and different approach to what is often a rather limited style: the verse/chorus/verse/bridge/chorus approach to rock, and that’s a good thing.
Kyle Tonniges
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