The Feds

Panic, not so much. A Touch of Panic is more like a touch of emo, a touch of hardcore, and a touch -- more like a gallon, actually -- of utterly generic post Stone Temple Pilots '90s alternative rock. It all sounds far too studied and contrived to sound panicked; singer Matt Slider's sub Chris Cornell yarl of a voice and the heard-it-all-before riffage of guitarists Jason Jones and Matt Wright makes the Feds sound like just the band for 2007 high school students who are for some reason bummed that they were in diapers during the brief heyday of Candlebox. Yes, Candlebox: the thuddingly ordinary flannel-codpiece rawk of A Touch of Panic isn't even interesting enough to sound like the good bandwagon jumpers of the time, like Silverchair or Alice In Chains. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide