Artist: Hidden In Plain View
Album: Life In Dreaming
Year: 2005
Hidden In Plain View is a middle-of-the-band road. They lack the talent and creativity to be great, but are certainly at least competent at what they do and unique enough to not be truly mediocre. Life In Dreaming is the baseball equivalent of hitting a midfield single and getting caught at second. For it's genre, it does what it's supposed to; but where it falters when it tries to go beyond that. Opener "Bleed For You" is catchy enough to be memorable and well-written enough to keep you listening, but the band tries reaching a few times only to come up short: "A Minor Detail", "The Innocent Ones", "Top 5 Addictions" and "American Classic" come to mind. With that said, the album at times puts strong tracks to the plate, including the aforementioned opener, "Twenty Below", "Ashes Ashes" and cheeky closer "Halcyon Days" (despite the headbanger pun). It's a C+ album that gets a B- for effort.
Hear it for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfgFQbe1qcc
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