Powered by Google
Home
Listings
Editors' Picks
News
Music
Movies
Food
Life
Arts + Books
Rec Room
Moonsigns
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Personals
Adult Personals
Classifieds
Adult Classifieds
- - - - - - - - - - - -
stuff@night
FNX Radio
Band Guide
MassWeb Printing
- - - - - - - - - - - -
About Us
Contact Us
Advertise With Us
Work For Us
Newsletter
RSS Feeds
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Webmaster
Archives



sponsored links
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
PassionShop.com
Sex Toys - Adult  DVDs - Sexy  Lingerie


 
  E-Mail This Article to a Friend
 

Hanson
UNDERNEATH
(3CG)
Stars graphics

It takes guts for a band to turn their backs on Island/Def Jam Records and risk releasing an album on their own indie imprint. It’s even gutsier when that band are Hanson, a trio of pretty-faced brothers whose boy-band TRL style of music is even more ephemeral than the fashion trends they helped inspire. So the out-of-the-box success of Underneath underscores just how far the one-time MMMBoppers have come since their teeny-bopper days. In addition to sporting designer threads and Hollywood hairdos, the now post-pubescent rockers boast lush, layered arrangements, flawless vocal harmonies, and even (at times) mature, insightful lyrics. It’s made that much better by Greg Wells’s top-notch production.

The album is less tolerable on mellower tracks like the slow-tempo "When You’re Gone" and the closing "Believe"; still, these lapses into tired, sappy rock are overshadowed by the catchy and energetic "Strong Enough To Break" and current radio single "Penny and Me." Just how much staying power Hanson may have is anyone’s guess. But they’ve already gotten farther than most people had any reason to expect.

BY ADAM GOLD


Issue Date: May 14 - 20, 2004
Back to the Music table of contents
  E-Mail This Article to a Friend
 









about the phoenix |  advertising info |  Webmaster |  work for us
Copyright © 2005 Phoenix Media/Communications Group