Point #1

Chevelle - Point #1

Point #1
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Artist: Chevelle
Brand: CHEVELLE
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-05-04
Music Label: Word Entertainment
Product features:
  • Point #1 (remix edit)
  • Point #1 (edit w/bridge)
  • Point #1 (album version)
Soundtracks:
  1. Open
  2. Point #1
  3. Prove To You
  4. Mia
  5. Skeptic
  6. Anticipation
  7. Dos
  8. Long
  9. Blank Earth
  10. Sma
  11. Peer

Music reviews of Point #1

Music Review: Good even if they are a Christian band
Rating: 4 Stars

I don't know what tricks Chevelle uses, but they have one of the best guitar sounds around. Their heavily distorted guitars somehow sound really dark without being the least bit metal. Even better, the clean guitar tone used in many songs on this album (such the verse for Mia) will simply blow you away.

Producer Steve Albini accounts for some of the album's sound, but not as much as you would normally expect. I've had this CD forever and I've always wondered what Chevelle would sound like live, since Albini is known for putting his trademark sound all over everything he does. I bought a couple of concert tickets when I heard they were opening for Local H, and after hearing them play its more than apparent that the sound of Point #1 is definately their own vision. Believe it or not, they actually sound just as good live as they do on the album. That's not something you can say about a lot of bands these days. Also, the way the title track somehow became a nihilistic moshing anthem during their live show was pretty impressive. I never would have considered it to be that kind of song but during the show it seemed entirely appropriate.

The best way to describe Chevelle's sound would be maybe a comination of Tool's Undertow (the singer sounds a lot like Maynard) crossed with Nirvana's In Utero, with some of the more standard indie/college rock band sound thrown in. But that really falls short, and even though the singer could probably fill in Maynard any day, he still has his own unique style.

The only thing that annoys me about this band is that they technically fall into the category of Christian rock. In the liner notes they even say something to the effect of "thank you to so-and-so for believing with us that this is god's plan." And the singer somehow works god into about half of the songs here, although only one of them, "Long", is actually a song about finding religion. For a while I couldn't even listen to this CD because of that, but then I realized that was kind of dumb of me. If I only listened to the bands that have the same belief systems that I do, I'd be left with a pretty small number of CDs in my collection. Besides, Chevelle aren't as preachy as bands like P.O.D., and as an added bonus they don't even mention god during their live shows, so I guess I can deal with it. The music is simply too good to dismiss them based on their religious beliefs alone. And despite the god references, the lead singer really is a great lyricist. He uses a fairly vague but complicated writing style that really takes some thinking about until you know what each song is really about.

Anyhow, check Chevelle out next time you're in the mood for some intelligent, heavy alternative rock. I'm skeptical about the songs from their next album, due out later this year, but the material from Point #1 was enough to blow Local H right off the stage.

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Media Type: CD
Artist: CHEVELLE
Title: POINT 1
Street Release Date: 05/04/1999
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Genre: ROCK/POP

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