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Toast - All In

So, being on the Kage’s music committee, I get the opportunity to sample some of the hundreds of CDs that we get sent.  This proves that looks can be deceiving.  Toast’s (Site no longer available) All In, for example, has cover art that kind of reminded me of Hatebreed’s Supremacy.    However, everything else about this album brings to mind the word amateur.  It seriously sounds like something I would’ve picked up for 97¢ back in high school.  You can tell that they’ve heard things work well in songs, and have made an attempt at doing it themselves.  It really doesn’t work.  “Bird” is an excersise in cliché.  Samply lyric:

 Watched a bird in a cage/she can’t fly
Locked up from her flight/she will die
She can’t escape/these chains she has to break…to be free.

Okay, that’s about enough of that.  If you noticed the lack of links, it’s because the internet is thankfully devoid of information about this band.  They don’t even have songs up on MySpazz.  So you don’t get to hear the shady Everlast vocals, the attempt at a sexual song [à la Nickelback] in “Party Girl,” their crappy Beatles reference in “Judgement Day,” or any of it.  Which is just as well.  Consider this a warning.

Final Verdict: On the off chance that this CD ends up anywhere near you, leave it alone.



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