Language Room

Alternative tracks

Reviewed by Austin Powell, Fri., July 24, 2009

Language Room

One by One

Don't let the production credits from Blue October's Matt Noveskey fool you. Language Room's alt-rock debut is slick and radio-friendly, but the local quartet performs with the earnest sincerity of Clarity-era Jimmy Eat World and has an ace up its sleeve in guitarist Scott Graham ("In Lines"). Only overwrought ballads "Don't Cover Your Eyes" and "Still Need You" whimper.

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