Review
He’s an airhead, but give Stephan Jenkins some credit: The Third Eye Blind frontman and all-around pretty boy refuses the easy rage of his hard-rock peers and instead celebrates California living with sunny anthems about dark subjects. It has been six years since his San Francisco foursome’s smash hit “Semi-Charmed Life” helped Third Eye Blind sell 6 million copies — 1999’s anticlimactic Blue went only platinum — and the group’s lite grooves, awful raps and wide-screen choruses are beginning to sound desperate. Out of the Vein twitches with studio tics: guitar filigree here, mini-breakdown there, volume-jacked refrains everywhere. Worse yet, Jenkins fails to come up with even one potentially chart-busting melody. That’s a problem, especially when your band’s a more rocking version of the Barenaked Ladies.
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