Junior Giant

Add Date: January 25 

Artist: Junior Giant 

Album: True North 

Label: Bay 4 

Genre: Alternative rock 

Comments: From the band's Facebook page: "You can call it Indie pop. You can call Alternative Rock. It's like hearing Beck or Green Day for the first time. You can't quite put your finger on it, but you love the music. It is familiar yet new. Peace Up."

Maybe the first half of the album fits that description--though it's still too flattering--but the second half definitely has some moments of Green Day wanting to impersonate Vanilla Ice or something. Let's just say I'd stick with Vanilla Ice in that case. The guys tried; I'll give them that. "Euphoria" is decent.