Saves the Day
Daybreak
(Razor & Tie)
2/5
The new album by New Jersey indie rockers Saves the Day will be a hard sell to fans who’ve waited four years for the 11-track offering. The album is a follow-up to 2006’s Sound the Alarm and 2007’s Under the Boards, and, unfortunately, doesn’t offer anything new to the trilogy.
Daybreak sounds like a mixture of overly repetitive melodies with songs that sound far too similar to other recent rock artists. For example, “1984” has striking resemblance to Green Day’s “Holiday,” and “Living without Love” is very close to the Plain White T’s most recent work.
It’s too bad that Save the Day didn’t use these other artists as inspiration and find their niche in an overcrowded market. Instead they came out with an album that’s unoriginal and full of pop-punk songs that sound just like those that have been played on the radio over the past decade.