If any track of The Bottle Rockets doesn't make you go crazy, it will make you want to test out your brand new garbage disposal.

For some bizarre reason, I really do want to like this band (they've got more charisma than you would think), but I'm simply not being sold on the idea that these guys are going to single-handedly bring back good ol' rock 'n' roll. It's not even like they're next generation Rolling Stones: these guys are terrible!

The lyrics on "Sometimes Found" sound like the product of a fourth grade poetry class full of D+ students. The music, by the way, is not much better. It's a shame that The Bottle Rocket's couldn't have released Brand New Year twenty years ago, when perhaps their music would've been considered mediocre. At best.

The Bottle Rockets

Brand New Year

Doolittle Records

reviewed by Chris Kelly