![]() Thankfully, the likes of Cobra Starship and Panic! At the Disco need not worry about their toes being stepped on, with the band once known as The Jakes continuing to hone their accessible indie-rock style. So, for follow-up album ‘Mind Over Matter’, Young the Giant have switched over to, umm, Fueled By Ramen! Clearly, some matters needed addressing the first of which would be their record label. While many pundits recognized the talent that the band possessed, they were also critical of the derivative & indistinct nature of their sound – Pitchfork being particularly scathing awarding the album a 2.7 rating out of 10. Maybe it was this weird amalgam of genres – along with the constant promotion of the quintet’s multicultural backgrounds – which heightened anticipation for the record to the point of inevitable disappointment. Has there ever been a more mismatched band and record label combination than Young the Giant’s self-titled LP being released by Roadrunner Records? Here we had a young group of Californian indie-rockers rubbing shoulders with metal behemoths such as Opeth and Slipknot. ![]() Review Summary: Far from paralyzed, even if the whole is less than the sum of its parts.
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