Under all the pressure, the group churns out album No. 5. I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph. Not in my Airforce. On Mars album to truly surprise. It is said that if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
Rod is part of the problem.
Rod is a retread of Blink 182, Green Day, and every other pop band with punk influences. It is easy to anticipate where the songs are going because we have heard it all before from more talented bands. This sort of disc reminds me of the end of the hair band days, when every band was doing the same thing. Even when lead singer Mark McMillon sings the first line of S.O.S, Bombarded, defeated, I m worked up and feeling inadequate and obsolete and nothing good at all, he fails to sell it. The angst is not believable, and the emotions seem contrived.