Seven Mary Three - Day&Nightdriving
Bellum Records (02/19/08)
Rock / Alternative
"Remember you said you'd rather be scared then bored to death with one another / You’d rather be broke and trying than sit still dying"
—From "Break the Spell"
It's never easy to feel like you are constantly being measured against your first big hit. Such may have been the case for Seven Mary Three. The band's first hit, "Cumbersome", still finds its way into many rock radio playlists to this day. But it was never an adequate representation of what the band had to offer. So, rather than re-writing the same album over and over, the band chose its own road, and in the process crafted some of the most criminally overlooked albums of the last decade. And like each album that preceded it, the band’s latest, Day& Nightdriving is chock-full of great rock music.
Sure, the blistering opener "Last Kiss" might not match the ferocity and emotion of, say, "Water's Edge" or "My My" (both off the band's debut, American Standard), and the melancholic appeal of "Hammer & a Stone" or "She Wants Results" doesn’t quite measure up to "Lucky" or "Make Up Your Mind" (off Rock Crown), but all are a solid addition to the band's catalogue.
