Scanners sound like the teenage Goth girl’s answer to Elastica and Veruca Salt, which come to think of it, would be Evanescence. Scanners certainly don’t fail that miserably, but Sarah Daly’s vaguely pained vocals over sloppy crunch chords has a tendency to make the listener sleepy, cranky, fidgety and hungry for moments when the band might take that terrifying leap into dynamism. Though the droning, almost trance rock mantra of “Evil Twin� provides a creative reprieve in the monotonously fluid sound, it too quickly slips into a one-trick tread. Daly’s voice falls onto the tracks like liquid lead, burying the momentum on songs already dangerously close to dirges. Violence is Golden hasn’t enough teeth to stick around, borrowing as it does from bands that themselves are dilutions and using those hand-me-downs to make a faded Xerox.
~ Terry Sawyer
Release date: June 6, 2006
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