CKY Provide The Answers? (An Answer Can Be Found - CKY)

Member Name: rleigh

Product:	An Answer Can Be Found - CKY
Date:	04/11/07 (89 review reads)
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Advantages: This album got them dropped from Island Records

Disadvantages: All eleven tracks here are highly unmemorable

CKY formed in 1998 in the borough of West Chester, Pennsylvania. They create a brand of Rock music drawing in elements of experimental Rock and alternative Metal, and their moniker 'CKY' is actually an abbreviation of their full band name 'Camp Kill Yourself'. Having now released four albums, and a fifth set for release next year – CKY are still going strong as a band, and will no doubt be around for some time to come. Since December 2006 they have been signed to Roadrunner Records, however from 2001 until the April of 2006 they were actually signed to the major label Island Records.

I’ve never really been a particularly big fan of CKY, however have in the past found some of their tracks to be quite enjoyable. I didn’t really know what to expect from this album as some of what I have heard of CKY has been extremely dull, so I was unsure as to whether the band would shine through or slowly fade into obscurity with this full length. I was prepared to give the band a chance with this album though, and hoped that it would provide me with some entertainment – after all, some of their music has appealed in the past, so why not again? Sadly, 'An Answer Can Be Found' is an album devoid of any particularly memorable tracks and failed to appeal to me one iota.

If you take experimental stoner Rock music and then combine it with Metallica laden guitar riffs then you will get somewhere close to the sound of CKY. I don’t consider myself to be a massive fan of Metallica, however I will give them the credit of being a hell of a lot better than CKY are on this album. They take the riffs, but they just don’t pull it off in the way that successful metal bands do – their music here lacks energy and just drones along, never really getting close to being at all exciting to listen to. Having listened to this album a number of times all the way through, I can honestly say that no tracks have stood out to me, and none of the eleven tracks present here stand strong in the memory. Sitting through the entirety of this album was quite a chore – listening to this band really is tediously boring and I fail to see how anyone could possibly get enjoyment out of listening to the music of CKY. Every single track on this album sounds entirely identical to the last, any by the time the final track of the album comes around you just don't really care any more.

To name the stand out tracks from this album for me is an extremely difficult task. I truly found each and every single one of the eleven on display here to be as massively unmemorable as the last, but at a push I would probably have to say that it is the tracks 'All Power To Slaves' and 'Dressed In Decay' that hold the most appeal here. The appeal isn't exactly massive on these two, but it's perhaps a little greater than is evidenced on the other nine tracks at least.

CKY released this album on the major label Island Records, however I somehow doubt that they would even be signed to a remotely major label if their drummer wasn’t the brother of TVs mad man Bam Margera. It is no surprise to me that the band were dropped from their major label in the April of 2006, and quite frankly I'm shocked that they managed to stay on the label for as long as they did. CKY are a band that have never got massive, but it’s not because they haven’t had the opportunity to – it’s because their music is awful. I advise you to steer well clear of this album, they may have arguably 'famous' connections but it doesn’t change the fact that their music is dire.


Label: Island Records
Release Date: July 4th 2005
Price: £9.19 (BlahDVD.com)

Originally posted by me on my website Alt-UK.com
Source: http://www.alt-uk.com/modules.php?name=Reviews

Summary: A disappointingly dull fourth album from the band