ALLELE
1/13/2006
Point of Origin Review
by Keith Michaels, Just Press Play
Overall Rating: 9/10
These days, Modern Rock bands come and go faster than Lindsay Lohan can puke up her latest meal. Most bands will crank out a worthy debut album only to fall to the wayside with a re-creation of their first work.
Hopefully that is not the case with Allele (pronounced Uh-Leel), a Jacksonville based band that has a more than impressive debut album in Point of Origin.
Originally formed in 2002, Allele jumped out to people after recruiting recently departed Cold guitarist Kelly Hayes, who many feel is responsible for the sound and success of Cold. Before leaving Cold, Hayes had worked with the members of Allele on a few side projects and when the head-butting with other Cold members failed to cease, he looked to Allele for support of his creative, musical talent – a move that anyone can see, benefited him and this talented Florida band.
Over the past three years, Allele has been opening for bands such as Saliva, Yellowcard, Nonpoint, Staind, Sevendust, Earshot, Trapt, Shinedown, Socialburn, 12 Stones and Godhead, and gaining a huge fan base of their own in the process.
Point of Origin is the type of debut album that many rock fans will cherish, and crave to listen to time and time again. Vocalist Wally Wood once said "I want Allele to be in every single person's musical vocabulary. We have a message of unity we want to share with everyone."
I can honestly say that I believe Allele has indeed accomplished that goal and then some.
This album is full of emotion, it’s got a number of catchy songs, and they all have incredible riffs that never seem to get old. As a matter of fact, the more I listen to this album, the more it grows on me and I was hooked from the first listen through. Ripping through riffs in the first track entitled Fake to their first single Closer to Habit, it’s easy to notice that Allele should be around for a while.
The album also features a “hidden track” entitled Jaydin’s song, which is a beautiful instrumental track that to me showcases the emotional feel the band wanted to achieve with this debut.
Another thing I like about this band and album is the fact that it seems to be clean, as in – not littered with profanity. For some reason, today’s music is filled with some much filth, profanity, negative suggestions, and so on. When a band such as this can deter away from succumbing to said trend and instead create an artistic piece that anyone can listen to, I honor them in that feat. Linkin Park showed that it can be done, and Allele is another band with hard-grunging riffs that pulled it off well.
The only downfall I have with this release is in its length, which because it’s so good, ends way to fast with a total time of only 37:33. Hopefully the next album with extend the play and allow us to enjoy this talented band even more.
If you are a rock fan of any type, you owe it to yourself to buy Allele’s Point of Origin and give it a try. Don’t let the album’s length discourage you because what’s there is something you will listen to time and time again. This is one album that will stay in my disc changer for a long time and I look forward to watching the band grow. Here’s hoping Corporate Punishment Records allows the band to grow the way they want to and not force them into releasing a second album just to prosper off the undoubted success of this one.
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