Cold Sides isn't going to heat up

If you were to throw Weezer, The Cure and My Bloody Valentine into a musical blender and push "liquefy," the result would sound something like the band Cold Sides. The depressed musical machine that is Cold Sides is about nine years too late to make its debut.\nThe band's self-titled album lacks any creativity, as well the general pop that is expected of every genre of music today. Almost every track sounds exactly the same, with little or no variation in guitar chords, broken drum lines and indecipherable vocals. Apparently, creativity was not the only element missing on Cold Sides' priority list. \nTalent did not seem to make the cut of what the band deemed important to create a quality album, either. The guitar lines are simple and slow, never using more than two or three chords per song, and the vocals are barely audible.\nAlthough the demoralized youth culture of the early '90s grunge era would have reveled in the trying to be deep, trying to be mellow, trying to be Nirvana tunes of Cold Sides, the modern musical society is now ruled by 14-year-old girls addicted to attractive dancers, not 22-year-old men addicted to heroin. Unfortunately, this album will have to spend some time on the shelves between a few P.J. Harvey records and a stack of cliched, post-grunge albums from 1996.\nRating: 4