Average, darkly melodramatic modern rock fills out this four-track EP. If there weren’t already so many bands out there currently who mine a similar vein of this kind of music (think Incubus, among others), these guys might actually be hailed as something a bit more exciting than they actually are. But perhaps the local scene in Scandinavia doesn’t have as much of this sort of thing as we do here in the States. The problem is, at only four songs, Peel don’t have a whole lot of space to stretch out here. So the dark undertones that color “Falling from Grace” are pretty much the same ones that fill “Second Man on the Moon.” It all sounds very brooding, yet with that glimmer of hope way off in the distance. The kind of thing that would probably not be out of place in some superhero movie over the summer. But again, there are plenty of other bands out there doing this same thing who are just as mildly interesting. (Peelgrim Records)
