Matchbox Twenty: Mad Season

Matchbox Twenty

Mad Season

Format reviewedCD

Released2000

Product code83339-2

LabelLava/Atlantic

Track ListingAngry : Black and white people : Crutch : Last Beautiful Girl : If you're gone :Mad season : Rest stop : The burn : Bent : Bed of Lies : Leave : Stop : You won't be mine

ReviewWitness second album syndrome. It's a shame this CD is overshadowed by the first Matchbox Twenty outing. Mad season is a very good album - it's just that the first one was better. Here, nothing stands out, but nothing falls below a high standard.

For those new to this band, they will be very satisfied with the intricacies of both music and lyrics: Rob Thomas is a fine songwriter.The style is that of much Californian post punk - but with no shouting, no bad language - and with a demonstrable mastery of their craft missing from many of their contemporaries. Basically, the band sound (and there are those who will regard this as a derogatory comment - it is not) educated.

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