By: John Mabery
Rating: 2/11

A better name for New York’s Sosohuman would be Generic.  Their album Twenty-Six (2006) is at best like listening to 43-minutes of rock radio during the mid 1990s to early 2000s and at worst like listening to one continuous song.  Think of Eve 6, Papa Roach, Tantrick, Puddle of Mudd, or, I don’t know, any other band that you filed under “Bands I’m Now Ashamed To Say I Listened To In 8^th Grade.”  It doesn’t help matters that lead singer Earl sounds like a ringer for Gavin Rossdale-Stefani, with his forced and whiny vocals on full display during the painful beginning of “Punisher” (an ironically appropriate title). 

One would think, or hope, as a race we’d progressed far enough beyond our taste for this saturated commercial “rock” that plagued us ten years ago, but apparently there is still an audience for this kind of music for it to still have a place in the world.  Even more unfortunate is that the band continues to make music to this day and their newest offering Strong Fan (2009), which oddly enough sounds exactly like their last album, is available through iTunes.  Bland Music – 1, Humanity – 0.