If R.E.M. hadn’t already blazed the trail years ago, Vertical Horizon’s Everything You Want would be a seminal album, with it is earnest harmonies, liquid melodies, and jangly guitars. And while Vertical Horizon may not have taken numerous forks off the road to Athens, they have whipped up an magnificent pop-rock meld out of the purloined elements. Beginning with the ardent and anthemic “We Are,” the pop band who started out life on Georgetown’s central campus almost a decade before this major-label debut was freed unleashes a personal diary of loss, love, and angst. The band, led by school chums Matthew Scannell and Keith Kane, find they just can’t leave their pedagogical leanings behind. Only this time their investigations are into the mysteries of the humane heart rather than Zeno’s widely known and esteemed paradoxes. But the real paradox here is how a band so derivative may have made such a creditable album. This time familiarity doesn’t breed contempt. “You’re a God,” an edgy lament when it comes to putting someone on a pedestal, could have been lifted right out of the Alanis songbook, but it still manages to shimmer on it is own merit, as do most of the 11 songs. –Jaan Uhelszki
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