Company Line: Alien Ant Farm make their ambitions clear with truANT. The follow-up to ANThology, Alien Ant Farm’s platinum 2001 release, truANT was produced by Dean and Robert DeLeo, best known as the guitarist and bassist for Stone Temple Pilots. AAF’s continued commitment to making timeless music is particularly meaningful in light of all that has transpired in the last two and a half years. ANThology took the quartet from their boyhood homes in Riverside, Calif., and thrust them upon the global stage, selling more than three million copies worldwide. But their hopes for further progress – and, indeed, the group members themselves – nearly died on a roadway in Spain in 2002 when their tour bus collided with a truck, killing their driver and seriously injuring the band and crew.
The Good:
“Hope” – When AAF bring emotion to a song you can feel it, it’s just too bad they don’t offer it more often.
The Marginal:
“Glow” and “These Days” – As close to good as AAF get on this record.
“1000 Days” – Paint-by-the-numbers rock.
“Drifting Apart” – Same old song and dance.
“Quiet” – Fame must suck. Do we care to hear about his girl and her issues with dating a rock ‘n’ roll singer.
The Ugly:
“Sarah Wynn” – It is beginning to sound like a broken record.
“Never Meant” – No Doubt did a little reggae and now AAF takes a poor shot at it.
“Tia Lupe” – Lounge lizards?
“Rubber Mallet” – Just plain bad.
Frankly: Prepare not to be bowled over. I hate to be honest but I could just care less. The DeLeo brothers were a bad choice of producers. Sure they scored in Stone Temple Pilots but here their art experiment seems to have gone horribly wrong.
+ Rae Gun
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