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Easily one of the best and most promising rock debuts since, well, Blind Melon's 1992 self-titled debut.
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Unified Theory -- while recalling the sounds of such bands as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Rush -- offers up a bold and psychedelic modern rock set.
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Like far too many bands whose members bring strong musical pedigrees to the project, Unified Theory's sum is less than its parts -- despite, or perhaps because of, an abundance of adventurous spirit and experimental zeal.
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Sadly, [lead vocalist Chris] Shinn's love of drama often overshadows the band's taut and atypical rhythm section, and the somewhat left-of-center construction of Thorn's guitar parts.
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Unified Theory play melodramatic art rock (with a capital AOR) in a Meatloaf-meets-Jane's Addiction kind of way. Their music plods along with all the grace of a Pinto sans muffler, substituting grandiosity for grace and thus failing to achieve the dramatically transcendent sounds that Roy Orbison and Jeff Buckley once made.
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patricesJan 25, 2007Amazingly awesome!
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mistydOct 17, 2006I freaking love this cd.......!
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SteveMMay 20, 2006One of the best albums, production and song writting as well as musicianship that I've listened to in the last 30 years, really!!!