It’s not every day that I get a relatively professionally packaged record all the way from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in my mailbox. Unfortunately, I think Fat Boys Records could have saved themselves the stamps, and stuck to chugging out more imitation groups instead of sending their releases half-way across the world. Disagree’s debut “At the End of the Day” (cleverly, they decided to call themselves “Disagree” after a long session of brainstorming for names which none of the members could agree on) is chock full of melodic rock songs, at times angst-ridden and utterly unoriginal, reminiscent of certain popular nu-metal/emo groups plaguing the airwaves with their post-post grunge, overly commercialised and glossified music for the last few years. The vocals on “At the End of the Day” are at times identical to that of Creed’s frontman - I’ll let the readers decide whether that’s a good thing, although I suspect most will find it disagreeable. Citing Pearl Jam and the post-grunge movement as an influence to their music is little more than an insult to those groups playing under that banner. Production is clean, and the artwork is professional, but it is in the musical department which I find Disagree lacking.

While I won’t claim to know much about the state of the Malaysian rock scene, I sincerely hope that the country will be able to offer something at least slightly more innovative or even remotely exciting than this American-imitation drivel in the future.

Year Released: 2004
Label: Fat Boys Records
Related Link: Disagree Official Site
Date Reviewed: 2004-09-27
Author: Andreas