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Bob By Brian Campbell  |
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 In a music world obsessed with finding the next ‘flavor of the month’ band, Bob stands defiant. Record label A&R reps today are just glorified cool-hunters, endlessly looking for ‘the next big thing.’ They look at album sales, not quality of music; they look at appearance and show attendance instead of measuring intangibles that can’t be taught, like true passion and raw emotion.
Well, introducing possibly ‘the next big thing’ in rock music, Bob.
These guys are teeming with attitude and feeling. Their unabashed debut, ‘Bbbob,’ is a showcase of their socially aware sensibilities and flare for memorable songwriting, perhaps most noticeably on ‘Cali.’ Frontman Matt Santoro both condemns and exposes the excessive lifestyle of people who live there as he proclaims very vividly ‘F*** California’ throughout the chorus.
In so many words, ‘Bbbob’ isn’t shy about its bluntness. The record has no problem being brutally honest either.
Today’s music industry needs more bands like Bob; bands that aren’t afraid to buck the trends and swim upstream instead of going with the flow. It also wouldn’t hurt to have more bands this talented either.
Sure the comparisons are there. Besides the obvious comparison between frontman Santoro and 40 Below Summer frontman Max Illidge, their music is reminiscent of a mad scientist mixture of sorts of the fluidity and rap-infused nu-metal of 40 Below Summer, the grittiness and balls-out musical approach of (hed) P.E. and even the mainstream attractiveness of a P.O.D.
‘Bbbob’ seems to be able to hit on a variety of levels; whether you’re looking for something that could fit in on Hybrid Theory’s self titled EP from back in the day (‘Busted Dreams’), innovative, chunky guitar riffing (‘Bump in the Road,’ ‘Tip the Board,’ ‘Beyond Your Fingertips’), breakdown filled metal tracks that will have you thinking it’s 2001 (‘What We Do,’ ‘Cali,’ ‘Trigger Man’) or a spiteful track directed at that special someone (Nancy), ‘Bbbob’ has what you want.
‘Bbbob’ is just the start of a band that sounds as if they want to take over the world, but in the meantime they would settle for getting a whole hell of a lot of people the mosh pit.
Rocks like:
- 40 Below Summer – ‘Invitation to the Dance’
- A New Revolution – ‘Rise’
- Liquid Gang – ‘Sunshine’
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