CD Review
The Alexander  A City in Ruins
The Alexander's CD A City in Ruins has a great alt rock sound.  The band is tight and the lyrics are scarce but powerful.  One song has only 21 words, but it's a great song.  It takes great music and powerful lyrics to be able to do that.  Occasionally the instrumentals got a bit lengthy.  After an instrumental goes on for about a minute people start to get bored with it, and it's time to either end the song or start a new verse.  I loved I Have Seen the Promise Land where they set a Martin Luther King, Jr. speech to music.  I thought it was unique and clever.  Thalessa was gorgeous but one of the examples of a song that could have gone ahead and ended sooner without loosing a thing.  It still would have been a great song.  All in all this one is worth checking out.

Gin-E
dallasmusic.com
staff writer