Dosage

Performer: Collective Soul
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Collective Soul: Ed Roland (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Ross Childress (guitar, programming); Dean Roland (guitar); Will Turpin (bass, percussion); Shane Evans (drums, percussion, programming). Additional personnel: Jun-Ching Lin, Christopher Pulgram (violin); Paul Murphy (viola); Danile O. Laufer (cello). Engineers include: Chris Carrol, Jason Elgin, Greg Archilla. Recorded at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida & Tree Studios, Atlanta, Georgia. DOSAGE, an infectious slab of modern rock, is the fourth album from the Georgia-based quintet. It is the group's effective use of melodic hooks that makes this record work. Those same hooks garnered the group mega-success in the grunge-dominated mid- '90s. DOSAGE is the brainchild of Ed Roland (vocals, keyboards, guitar, production). He shows his vocal range on the Peter Gabriel-like "Tremble For My Beloved," and the much smoother ballad "Needs." "No More No Less" is powered by an excellent piano-based arrangement, while "Dandy Life" features the British-sounding vocals of guitarist Ross Childress. "Run," the album's first single (also featured in the film Varsity Blues,) is a pop hit with acoustic guitar and strings over a drum loop. DOSAGE is another winner from this hard-working, earnest-but-not-pretentious band.

Rolling Stone (2/18/99, pp.58-60) - "...they've sustained their R&B- and pop-inflected rock with a rare naturalness....DOSAGE words because it isn't grounded in any heavy-duty retro concept..." Entertainment Weekly (2/12/99, p.82) - "...there are plenty [of] pop touchdowns in the DOSAGE game." - Rating: B+ Q (8/99, p.107) - 3 stars (out of 5) - "...muscular...crafted, vaguely angsty pop-rock of the kind that middle America will embrace..."

Riding the crest of the grunge movement as it crashed on the shores of mainstream rock, Georgia's Collective Soul showed up in the mid 1990s with everything rock fans wanted, and now expect, from their radio stars: big, compressed, gut-wrenching guitars, sensitive lyrics and emotive wailing that presaged emo vocals, and hooks galore. Their debut album went double-platinum, largely due to the lovely power ballad "Shine." They continued to release solid, hit-spawning albums for Atlantic Records, but left after a greatest-hits package in 2001, and began self-releasing their recordings to a still-enthusiastic base of loyal fans.

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