Album Review

The Nextmen – Join The Dots

• 14th Aug 2009

Usually when an album has many vocal guests (billed as Feat. So and so) you still expect the music to remain fairly consistent in tone. Here you’d think it was the other way around and that they exchange musicians between the music.

What begins as a dance beat track gives way after to a whole myriad of genres. Funk, Reggae, Jazz, and just about anything that ends with “Hop.” And this here is the biggest problem. The music and vocals are fairly capable themselves, but the album together is one giant mess. You’d have better luck station surfing on the radio to find something that sounds more like a collective whole than this album.

With that in mind there still isn’t really anything that stands out that the band should focus on, other than just perhaps concentrating on a sole genre of music for their next album.