Number One Gun
"Celebrate Mistakes" CD
Floodgate
/ Salvage
Genres: CCM, emo, alternative rock
Dec 1 - 7 2003 |
Emo
+ Pop-punk
+ Alternative rock
= Number One Gun
I can see these four guys becoming really popular one day.
With the correct amount of major label distribution and mainstream
radio exposure, songs like "Celebrate Mistakes" and "On
& On" could easily make the Winamp playlists of high-schoolers
everywhere. While their strong Christian leanings may scare off
some of the atheistic young audience, they might be able to follow the
footsteps of bands like MXPX before them and become popular
anyway.
Number One Gun takes the melodic route through every song on
Celebrate Mistakes, and it helps them accomplish exactly what
they want to achieve. The guitars are in high rev, whereas the
vocals unfortunately tend to become as whiny and angsty as the
lyrics. The band needs to add something to their music in order
to stick out, as right now they just sound like every other
alternative rock band out there today. And you can only have so
many Third Eye Blind and Jimmy Eat World clones to go
around.
Celebrate Mistakes is a pretty inoffensive, predictable
album, and its melodic promise is only overshadowed by the sheer
amount of music just like it. As far as Christian rock goes,
however, it isn't bad.
76%
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 11 tracks, distributed by the
label, released 2003] |