Title: Hooba Who?
Product review: In late 2005, Ryan, Marshal, Jeremy, Jeremy, and Josh barricaded themselves in a suburban southern California basement with a copy of GarageBand and a handful of Hoobastank guitar tabs. The resulting self-titled debut album, Faktion, is an exploration of the vast expanse of angstrock suckdom that is somehow overproduced, while remaining rough-around-the-edges.Vacillating frantically between self-loating and self-pity, each track masterfully blends off-the-shelf lyrics and uninspired guitar licks into a whole so much less than the sum of its parts as to be nearly mathematically impossible. The appropriately entitled first track "Forgive Me" not only sets the mood for the rest of the album, it serves as a warning and pre-apology as well.While a seeming contradiction, "Indie label sellout" is the only appropriate designation available for this aural felony. The shame is how cheaply they must have sold out.
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