In the glut of grungy
power pop
bands that flooded the mid-'90s, it was pretty easy to write off
Superdrag
as "just another
rock
band." The difference is that
is essentially a
pop
band, as
Regretfully Yours
proves. While the band's sound itself is nothing terribly exciting, most of the songwriting lives up to the promise of the album's saccharine-rush single,
"Sucked Out"
-- full of hooks and tightly constructed. This is somewhat surprising, considering the album was the band's first for a major audience, and the norm of the time period was for producers and labels to reduce every
band to a Seattle clone.
will certainly satisfy the
pop/rock
and
-
punk
crowds --
Weezer
Bad Religion
fans alike -- but
indie rock
lovers should look to the band's early independent singles. ~ Nitsuh Abebe