[4/5] It's summer, people. We don't need a nation of bands who can rewrite Rodgers & Hammerstein or reinvent modern rock; a few free-spirited sing-alongs will do just fine, thanks. This bodes well for the Classic Crime, a young band who share the same high-ceiling playlist potential as, say, Acceptance, and deliver on it in a way that's genuinely affecting. "The Coldest Heart," for instance, starts like a My Chemical Romance number, but its buoyant arpeggio is merely a tool that sets up vocalist Matt MacDonald for the kind of soaring chorus that can set a disc in flight. Even though Albatross isn't heavy on new ideas, it pulls strength from consistency. So if the Classic Crime are guilty of anything, it's probably for forging their barely legal birth certificates-because Albatross sounds like the work of a band in mid-career fighting shape.
(TOOTH & NAIL) Tristan Staddon
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