Instant happiness? More like instant cure for insomnia. Reynolds and his Brides have managed to throw together a collection of some the most boring, disposable pop tracks that anyone has ever put on a CD. There is nothing original to report on this album. It is basic piano-driven power pop that usually feature gruff vocals, good piano, and redundant backing music that goes from anywhere between ‘80s metal and blues rock that has been done before and usually done better. The gruff vocals add a new element to the whole piano pop theme that is simultaneously helpful and detrimental to the album, with the roughness either adding to the music or utterly destroying any melodic element that it once possessed. There is one song on here, “Here We Go Again,” that does stand out as being an amazing track and a glimmer of what this album could have been. “Here We Go Again” has a sort of John Lee Hooker meets Ben Folds feel to it with what are the best lyrics on the album. Other than that track, this album comes very close to being the tapioca pudding of music: an album with a distinct flavor that isn’t strong enough to scare anyone away or attract anyone to it. A rather boring and sometimes pretentious album.

(Electrokitty Records, no address provided)