 
The unavoidable influence of the Deftones still hangs in the air; its smog and we’re all suffocating. Unless, of course, you’re a fan of that sound…if so, then Abandon Your Friends is for you. As for everyone else: abandon this CD. You heard this stuff already two or three years ago. (Although I will say that the band’s label, Vagrant, was nice enough to send the CD in its actual packaging instead of just a cardboard slipcase like Warner Brothers.) The lead singer, Benjamin Perri, is a real a tough guy, as usual, and screams his ten-cent diary lyrics like any other rage filled twentysomething (“One, breathe in to be free/two more times and you’ll see/Three, it will numb the pain/How hard is it to be sane”). Around him is the standard rudimentary musicianship of this Thug Rock fad…twelve tracks later it all ends. Next CD, please. - Andrew Lau
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