Author: 311

Features:

• 311 EVOLVER

PartNumber: 8 3 00537142

Release Date: 01-12-2000

Details: Amazon.caIt takes some nerve nicking an album title from the Beatles, even in a slightly modified state. But since this Omaha, Nebraska band went through so many significant changes leading up to the release of its seventh studio album, at least it’s a logical move. The aggressive Woody Woodpecker-style lyrical play and needling funk core of career lows, 1997’s Transistor and 1999’s Soundsystem, are toned down, replaced by a more sophisticated sound that stretches the group’s well-trounced reggae-rap-rock template to include wisps of electronica and soul. The members of 311 still aspire to be half-as-clever as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but finally seem satisfied in their on skin on tracks such as “Creatures (For a While)” and the emotional “Beyond the Gray Sky.” The psychedelic exper