Review
Hoobastank are pretty smart for a group of hard-rock crybabies with a horrible name. The California quartet’s lack of pretension and less-than-turgid beats (“Escape” even gallops like Golden Earring’s “Twilight Zone”) make every song on The Reason sound like a future airwaves monolith worthy of following their hits “Crawling in the Dark” and “Running Away” onto a catalog-churning best-of. This consistency doesn’t make them anything more than anonymous radio angst merchants, but these odes to frustration are infinitely more tolerable than most; thankfully, singer Douglas Robb can emote without sounding like a violent donkey. It’s too early to know whether these guys are this decade’s Journey (not an insult!), but they’re contenders.
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