Vaeda reviewed
Vaeda
State Of Nature
(Playtyme)
New York-based Vaeda were voted “best unsigned band” on Myspace in 2005; this is their power rock debut.
Everything on State Of Nature reaches for the rafters, from Ian Cole’s screams and pounding guitar chords, to the in-the-round singing at the tail end of “Battle Song.” Falling somewhere among the sounds of Papa Roach, Incubus, Foo Fighters, and, dare we mention, Crazy Town without the rapping, Cole, bassist Aristotle (I bet he hates his parents) Dreher, and drummer Oliver Williams are watertight and waste little space by filling crevices with pummeling post grunge rock. “Bite My Tongue” is emblematic of the whole album — which could have been trimmed by two or three excess songs — a fist-raising anthem about how much life hurts. Trite, maybe, but effective.
— Steve Forstneger
