Hoobastank: Hoobastank (New)

This Music CD is brand new. It comes in the original unopened package.

Hoobastank arrives on this self-titled major-label debut as a nu-metal Weezer, though without anything as cheekily subversive as "Hash Pipe." The similarities lie more in Hoobastank's tight playing and vocal harmonies than in the overblown post-teen lyrics. In track after track, singer Douglas Robb is in crisis; whether he's intoning or yelp-rapping his words, they are never as articulate as the emergency-siren guitar of the punkish "Pieces." The album's 12-song sequence moves inexorably toward clichéd Limp Bizkit guitar riffs and one true change of pace, the spacy, Deftones-like "To Be with You." Unfortunately, its lyric is nothing more than a sensitive-guy attempt to convince a girl to "give in."

Track Listings:
1 Crawling In The Dark
2 Remember Me
3 Running Away
4 Pieces
5 Let You Know
6 Better
7 Ready For You
8 Up And Gone
9 Too Little Too Late
10 Hello Again
11 To Be With You
12 Give It Back