STATISTICS
Leave Your Name (Jade Tree)
Reviewed by Erick Mertz

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Everything seems to point to a dropped or missed phone call: the album cover graced with outstretched lines, the constant allusions to someone not getting through, the sample of an operator droning on "...if you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again."

Even the title Leave Your Name suggests a missed call.

The guys from Statistics may have missed a call while out at the show, but the resulting album written about it does a pretty fair job capturing the solitude and isolation in reaching out, and being denied. Like a fusion of main stream classic and modern rock radio, Leave Your Name could be derivative of Dark Side of the Moon or, more contemporarily, Smashing Pumpkins. Not that Denver Dalley's brainchild is comparable yet to fathers Waters or Corrigan, but he has culled enough of their collective pathos to assemble a representation of their work.

The work is short and in places a bit too mainstream chunk of the dial to be challenging, but like an old sports adage goes, statistics don't lie. And neither do these guys.

© 2004 - Erick Mertz