Review: Boysetsfire – The Misery Index

Another half-hearted attempt to prove nu-metal isn’t dead by adding sophomoric acoustic refrains, whiny power ballads or pointless samples to the landscape of paint-by-numbers distortion.

Even the angry pre-teens the group’s courting may think these guys are hacks.

Favorite track: “So Long … And Thanks For the Crutches”

Grade: D – Jetty, Spring 2006

About the author

Justin Vellucci is a staff writer for PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, and MusicTAP, a contributor to Pittsburgh Current, and a former staffer for Popdose, Punk Planet and Delusions of Adequacy. His music writing has appeared in national magazines such as American Songwriter, alt-pubs like The Brooklyn Rail, Pittsburgh CityPaper and San Diego CityBeat, blogs Swordfish, Punksburgh and Linoleum, and the Gannett magazine Jetty. He lives in Pittsburgh.