sound even more - and their music is all the better for it. From the freeze-dried Fender Rhodes riffs of "Over the Line,'' which, bizarrely, resembles both Oasis and Air, to the rap-rock rave of "Name of the Game," which will hopefully give Fred Durst some new ideas,
Tweekend is a textbook definition of cheap techno thrills. The Crystal Method certainly haven't resorted to originality, but they have become the Bachman-Turner Overdrive of American techno. They use electronics to simulate some of rock's hoariest, and most dumbly pleasurable, cliches: The adrenalized "Tough Guy" isn't the only track on the album with synth lines that sound like wah-wah guitars. We can only hope that, by their next album, the Crystal Method have figured out how to get a sequencer to sound just like Peter Frampton's solo in "Do You Feel Like We Do.''
PAT BLASHILL
(RS 875 - August 16,2001)
