With its endless series of string quartet tributes to virtually every band and artist under the sun, Vitamin Records seems to feel that all of modern and contemporary pop can be remade in its chamber ensemble mirror image, and well it may, but the real question has to be, simply, why? This one takes on the gloomy, self-depreciating riff rock of
Crossfade, and with their crunchy guitars morphed into cellos and violas, and stripped of their lyrical misery, songs like "Starless" and "Cold" do reveal a kind of aching beauty at their core. ~ Steve Leggett