broken boy soldiers

[Sage 703]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  the record is headed in that direction but to me it sounds like benson singing lead on white stripes songs and visa versa... they craft records differently as benson takes his time where as white does it in a couple weeks... it would seem some of the tracks were finished up by benson after the initial recording was done and the rest left as is. the record shows promise for better things to come    

Agreed.  But I'd go farther and say that this somewhat of a failure of a record.  The singles sound so much more developed and polished in concept and production.  I think Kosmo's earlier statement that it sounds incomplete - like they rushed to finish it to capitalize on their own buzz - was pretty close to being right on.  Most of these songs sound like watered down White Stripes songs to me.

[kosmo vinyl]

Seeing as this project was dimissed as a rumour the minute word got out about it, it would appear that white and benson happened to be in Detroit at the same time and decided to write some songs together and roll tape to capture that process at brendan's home studio.  people heard it and thought that it should see the light of day.  It didn't help that for me at least the first two songs posted on the bands website were killer and left me wanting more...