Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead
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Music CD Cover Artist: Phantom Planet Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2008-04-15 Music Label: Atlantic Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Raise The Dead Album
Free Music Review: Risen from the dead as it were
Hit: 3 Stars
Ok, I'm a huge Phantom Planet fan. Been with them since I heard "The Guest". Yes, "California" was the first track I heard, however it was on the radio almost a year before The OC aired so when I say I'm a fan it isn't because of some commercial vehicle they attached themselves to. I even somewhat enjoyed the self-titled album they put out. It was different, but it worked in my opinion to bring together a type of ordered chaos.
With that said, this album is just weird. I'm not really sure where they wanted to go or even where they are heading. "Phantom Planet is Missing" is the closest thing this album resembles, but even that would be pretty innacurate.
It seems that they took a bunch of songs that should have been on "The Guest" and added in some old school flavor to create this amalgom of a sound. It isn't bad by any means, but it is a pretty draastic departure in terms of the sound. Like I said before, the lyrics are actually more along the line of "The Guest" rather than the self-titled and that is a good thing since the self-titled was a little shallow in terms of writing.
Overall though, the album is just really hard to classify and being a fan of their older stuff really doesn't help all that much here. I would honestly recommend this to fans of bands like JET or Panic! At the Disco rather than older Phantom Planet fans. Those folks will probably get more out of it.
There are a few good songs here, but not much to get excited about. I guess this album dropped silently because of that fact. Or maybe it was because they left Epic and went to Fueled by Ramen where they do blend quite well along side the new Panic! album. As much as I would like to Highly Recommend this album, I can't.
Two and a half stars.