IN REVIEW: Fever 333 - "Strength in Numb333rs"

Like Rage Against the Machine reincarnated for the SJW generation, Fever 333 marries radio ready modern rock with commentaries on social issues and addresses the issues while offering banging beats and big choruses.

Spearheaded by one of the most energetic and passionate front people in today's musical climate (Jason Aalon Butler, formerly of letlive), Fever 333 delivers manifestos in the form of hard charging modern rock vignettes, and their debut LP builds on the promise of their 2018 EP Made an America, though Strength in Numb333rs may have been better served as an album had it been bolstered by a couple of the previous EP's highlights; still, the album's nine songs and three interludes pack a lot of heat over 41 minutes.

Singles Burn It and One Of Us are plenty enjoyable on the surface while offering galvanizing messages of inclusion and rallying cries to action for anyone choosing to dig a little deeper. Throughout there are several explosive moments, but there is also a considerable amount of heart here; the quieter moments, such as Inglewood and Am I Here?, offer reprieve from the intensity and helps to lend the album some much needed variety.

All told, Strength in Numb333rs is a musically impressive album that falls just a little short in its intentions; too commercial to be dangerous and too confrontational to be widely accepted, it's nonetheless an interesting statement album that leaves wiggle room for the band to aspire for either side of the fence without too much resistance.

January 18, 2019 • Roadrunner
Highlights Burn It • One Of Us • Inglewood

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