Better Than Ezra was one of those post-grunge, alt-rock outfits that made a splash in the mid-90s and met with great success from initial studio efforts before going on to slowly fading away from the music scene. The band had worked steadily since the sheen from their breakthrough album Deluxe wore off, but Before the Robots is definitely their strongest mainstream effort since Fiction, Baby. Probably the most heard track off this disc is the song ?Juicy?, which was used to promote Desperate Housewives last fall, but it is by no means a great sample of the other twelve songs on this record. In fact, taken in the context of those other twelve numbers, ?Juicy? is galling; an over-produced spectacle that stands out like a sore thumb amongst the band?s crisp and clean brand of guitar driven pop rock. You?ll love the radio ready cuts like ?One Last Night? in spite of yourself, but the real gems of this album are the Bonnie and Clyde inspired ?A Southern Thing? and the rebel against the rat race tune ?American Dream?. Ezra isn?t really paving new ground with Before the Robots, but they?ve shorn up their skills with solid song writing and musicianship and have crafted a decent little album that recalls past glories.
Track Listing
1 Burned*
2 Daylight
3 A Lifetime*
4 It's Only Natural
5 Overcome
6 Special
7 American Dream*
8 Our Last Night*
9 A Southern Thing
10 Juicy
11 Hollow
12 Our Finest Year
13 Breathless
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