When asked to describe Saosin’s new album In Search of Solid Ground to friends who’ve not heard it, I was puzzled. Do you call this a punk album? Do you call it a rock album? Or is it somewhere in that post-hardcore void everyone likes to throw things into? To be honest there is no good category to put this band into. Pure and simply stated, they just rock. Cove’s vocals are crisp and clean without that pretention you see a lot from people who cross genre.
There is something smooth and calming about this album. It invokes emotion without being called into the ominous category of “emo” music. The Worst of Me is my favorite track of the album, with lyrics that are so honest it actually makes you want to give the track to an ex-girlfriend you might really miss being friends with. Then you get a track like Is This Real which clocks in at just under four minutes, but is so fast and furious it’s easy to forget that this is even the same band. Each track on this album is unique and special in it’s own way. The band somehow with a lot of skill manages to make an album that captures the listener like a good novel captures a reader. I really have to give them credit where it’s due, this album is really catchy and clever.
