The term “concept album” has always brought with it promises of twenty-minute epics, mind-boggling signature shifts, and countless solos from every member of the band. To see the idea carried out a little differently, look no further than On the Eve of Absolute Get Down, the debut album from Player/Kommander. Not a single song breaks the four-minute mark; instead, its ambition lies in a broad range of musical influences brought in to accent this otherwise straightforward rock album. Over the course of the thirteen songs, broken up into four rather indistinguishable “phases,” frontman James Hall tries everything from a Bee Gees croon to a raspy shout, and the results are equally scattered across the board. As a group, P/K moves from the mellow ballad “All Night Wednesday” to the sludge rock of “Way Faux El Diablo,” but the best cuts come when they find a happy medium. Tracks like “White-Out of the Mind” and “Easy When It’s On” are catchy and upbeat, the latter riding a boogie rock sensibility and full-bodied riffing from guitarists Jim Troglen and John Fuller. “Be This Way” sounds a little too much like Kings Of Leon to earn originality points, but it opens the album in style and ends before it grows tired.
Of course, it’s the lyrics that make this a concept album, but don’t expect to find any Floydian acid poetry. Get Down follows a night in the life of an anxiety disorder patient battling drug problems, though it’s hardly the selling point of the album. These are pop songs through and through, and the goal of entertainment takes precedent over any kind of storyline. And with lyrics like “I got a comfort / it’s makin’ me comfortable,” you can be glad of that.
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