The Breakfast: Moxie Epoxy

CML call number: CD ROCK Breakfast
Brian LaRue wrote in the New Haven Advocate: "The long-running jam band busts out with a sprawling new disc — nine songs in 68 minutes. Damned if it doesn’t whiz right by, though. These guys cleverly integrate their jamming into songs in such a way that [a] listener might start out grooving on a midtempo pop-rocker, and next thing you know, the band has gone clear through a burbly funk-rock interlude and a noodly space-jam, and now guitarist Tim Palmieri is hammering on an anthemic melody set to a charging rock rhythm. These transitions are seamless, but would be self-indulgent without good songwriting. Fortunately, if this disc’s soul is the band’s chemistry and skill, its heart is the songs. At times the lyrics can be a bit silly — the love-interest-as-sweetened-condiment metaphor of 'Honey Butter,' the salute 'Here’s my ode to you with rock and roll' in 'The Late and the Great' — but they’re full of confident hooks and smart chord changes. The Breakfast could settle for dazzling with their chops, but choose to compose and arrange well, too, and deserve credit for that" ("Local CDs," 10/26/06, p. 28).