In the glut of grungy power pop bands that flooded the mid-'90s, it was pretty easy to write off
Superdrag as "just another rock band." The difference is that
Superdrag is essentially a pop band, as
Regretfully Yours proves. While the band's sound itself is nothing terribly exciting, most of the songwriting lives up to the promise of the album's saccharine-rush single, "Sucked Out" -- full of hooks and tightly constructed. This is somewhat surprising, considering the album was the band's first for a major audience, and the norm of the time period was for producers and labels to reduce every rock band to a Seattle clone.
Regretfully Yours will certainly satisfy the pop/rock and pop-punk crowds --
Weezer and
Bad Religion fans alike -- but indie rock lovers should look to the band's early independent singles. ~ Nitsuh Abebe