Sound the Alarm is the latest in a crop of super-young musicians getting a major label deal. And on their debut full-length effort, Stay Inside, they serve up twelve tracks of pop-rock with an emo tinge that bring to mind acts like Jimmy Eat World and The All-American Rejects. And while the first couple of songs of this album had my head bobbing along, I must say that by the time I hit the midway point, I was rather bored. The sound is very formulaic and doesn't stand out one bit. I'd heard this band a hundred times before I even heard them for the first time. And while this isn't the band for me, if you're a teenage girl you'll probably fall in love with the lead singer and draw a heart in your notebook with yours and his initials in it
Yeah, this is THAT kind of band.
