CD Review: ScribbleMonster, “Songs with No Character”

Nov 6, 08 • In Music

ScribbleMonster – Songs with No Character (ScribbleSongs, 2008) purchase this album (CD Baby) Boasting “more musical variety than a classic K-Tel record,” Chicago’s ScribbleMonster — guitarist and singer James Dague, drummer Brett Goral, bassist Brian Hufnagl, and vocalists Jayne Sniat and Joyce Stuart — dispenses with the goofy character voices (sorry, ScribbleCharacter voices) for its just-released third album, the appropriately titled Songs with No Character. Having never listened to any of the band’s other work, I can’t vouch for how it holds up against previous releases, but as a stand-alone collection, this 14-song CD does everything you want a kids’ album to do — namely, make the little ones happy while reinforcing a positive life lesson or two. As is the case with most albums that go over 10 songs, Songs with No Character can