Puddle of Mudd
's story is every struggling musician's dream come true: armed with a fake backstage pass, frontman
Wes Scantlin
snuck the band's demo to a
Limp Bizkit
security guy at a show in their native Kansas City, and less than one year later finds his group's debut album the first release on
Fred Durst
's new label. Thankfully,
Come Clean
sounds nothing like
;
's
aggro-rock
sound is similar to every other
Alice in Chains
- and
Tool
-influenced band to come along in the past few years. The opening,
"Control,"
milks the loud/quiet formula that
Nirvana
brought back to life, but adds some interesting stop-time changes during the break, while the acoustic balladry of
"Drift & Die"
will sound familiar, sounding like something
Layne Staley
could have written. ~ Bret Love