0041. The Vines
Highly Evolved

With a singing style more reminiscient of screaming in the more rocked-out tracks (no, not the pathetic genre-attribute of "screamo", but actually raising your voice in an excited manner (like Howlin' Pelle from the Hives)) The Vines deliver a album that's an adrenaline rush interspersed with slower songs. The second aussie band in just a couple of days on this listing (remember #38?) is also one of the better entries rockwise (or rather "garage rock-wise").

Highly Evolved is a good album, but there's nothing negative I can say about it ("wait ...what?" Yes "but"). Well, okay, if I have to find something to gripe about it's that the main riff on In The Jungle sounds as if they borrowed a bit from Blue Öyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper, but it's still all right.

Maybe not thefirst album I'll buy the next time I'm in a record store, but I'd enjoy it if they played it while I was there.