Artist: Chevelle
Album: Wonder What’s Next
Release Date: October 8th, 2002
Label: Epic Records
Could anyone have predicted how huge Chevelle was going to get with this album and more particularly “The Red”? Doubt it, I know I sure couldn’t have. As I previously stated, I enjoyed Point #1 but I don’t think I have the skills that could see though the muddy layers of riffs and yells and find underneath them a band meant for mainstream airwaves. I’m sure glad someone else did.
Wonder What’s Next was so much better that Point #1 in many ways, though I did miss a few aspects of the looseness and rawness of the debut. Those elements are always the first to wave goodbye when a band hits the big time. Luckily there were so many songs on this album for me to love, I really didn’t care.
In my opinion it does struggle a bit as it carries on and doesn’t carry a full on knock it out of the park punch all the way through, but if we’re using baseball analogies, it’s a standing double. It’s only because I now know what really does come next for these brothers from Chicago that I don’t say they legged out a triple.
Fave tracks: “Family System” “Comfortable Liar” “The Red” “Send The Pain Below” “Wonder What’s Next” “Don’t Fake This”
& “Forfeit”
“Comfortable Liar” is one of my top 3 Chevelle songs all-time.
Tags: Chevelle, Send the Pain below, The Red, Wonder What's Next
