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Head For The Door
01/06/2005 9:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Rob O'Connor
Ever since the beginning of time--or at least the beginning of rock ’n’ roll--kids haven’t wanted to rock. They have wanted songs that speak for them and that allow them to throw their fist in the air with reckless abandon. Every generation looks for heroes and every generation has someone who wishes to be that hero. L.A’s Exies want to be those heroes. They write very concise hard rock tunes that recall Nirvana and Stone Temple Pilots (whose Dean DeLeo was an early fan) in their angst and any number of modern rock combos in their anthemic urgency. They can slow things down for a reflective pause (“Tired Of You”), but they’re perched for stadium grandeur with the balls-out “Ugly,” “Splinter” and “Slow Drain.” Singer Scott Stevens has the voice that all today’s aspiring rock stars dream of--and with his backing wall of guitars and arsenal of alternative rock riffs, is clearly up to the challenge of scaling the heights of stardom.
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