The Village Green - Feeling the Fall

Genre rock Publisher spinART Records External Links Official The Village Green Website Official spinART Records Website

More and more young bands these days are setting out to do the impossible: make contemporary classic rock that is both good and not ironic. I, for one, commend these brave artists for the creative testicular fortitude and exquisite taste in music. However, ambitious as they may be, it's rare when one of these bands actually records something original or significant. Such is the case with Portland, Oregon's The Village Green's latest LP Feeling the Fall

Now don't get me wrong, it's not that the album is bad, just that it's nothing you haven't heard before. At times Feeling the Fall recalls another band in their gene pool: Supergrass. Particularly on songs such as "OM:The Meaning of Life" and "When the Creepers Creep In." Other key songs "Yelm," "Mossyrock" and "Rosa Glynn" bring to mind a plethora of seventies influences like Tom Petty, George Harrison, and of course The Rolling Stones yet they somehow end up sounding more like a lame studio orgy featuring BRMC and The Dandy Warhols.

If Feeling the Fall had been released maybe ten years ago, critics would be drooling over how cool it is. "This is the greatest thing since the real thing" they'd say. Unfortunately, it's 2006 and we've all heard this before; about one hundred times actually.