How did this happen? How did Sebastian Lefebvre go from high-rotation tween-anthem punk-pop to this? Lefebvre, the rhythm guitarist from Simple Plan, the squeaky-clean black nail polish Quebecois poser quintet, attempts a George Harrison, or at least a Dallas Green, with his own bedroom folk EP. However, it feels more like a one-dimensional warm-up rather than an evocative and revealing project. The only things evident on this closet of an EP are the skeletons of passable but aborted Simple Plan songs. Alas, themes range from heroism to escapism to romance and back to escapism without ever saying anything new. Platitudes run rampant (i.e. "Someone told me once/ To stand up and fight/ Forget about the past/ 'Cause you can't go back tonight"), and the instrumentation is stripped to uninteresting bar-chords and rudimentary acoustic strumming, while shakers and hollow percussion create predictable accents. I guess I can add "Subtle Genius" to my list of things Sebastian Lefebvre is not.

Track Listing:

1. Decoller
2. Comatose
3. La Nouvelle Vie
4. Good Night
5. I Fall For You
6. Life Goes On
7. The one