Beat Alley

New Jersey based band, Set It Free, will released their self titled debut EP on July 5th, 2011 through Gas Can Music. The five songs top out just shy of seventeen minutes, with Forget the Past as the song of focus for the release.

Home Alive

Brilliant Sound

Forget the Past

Everything in Motion

What Is This Love

From the opening guitar slide and riff, you might think that a new thrash rock band is percolating and about to explode, but the vocals soften the sound, instantly classifying them as a pop rock, alternative group.

There is something to be said about the melodies that will get you to bob your head or tap a foot, and the guitar pounds out a hard rock influenced groove that is complimented nicely by cascading drum fills and solid backbeat. The songs are well put together and the music is catchy, although the singing sounds strained in places.

Brilliant sound? Almost. They still have some work to do. Like the commercial sound that is so prevalent on the conglomerate radio stations, they might find a home on the top forty charts. Participating in a formula that seems like it has been beaten to death, Set It Free will need to build on their sound if they want to distinguish themselves from the cookie cutter masses that flood the airwaves of modern rock and roll.