If you take the word "grunge" and throw in some catchy pop melodies and a touch of eccentricity you get the tone of The Briarwood Sessions, the third album by M.D.S.

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After the unproductive and indecisive year that was 2005 M.D.S. is back ! They have re-grouped with a new bandmate Greg Caissie and theyâve set out to write their best songs yet.

This time around, most of the songs were recorded in their new 24track studio. M.D.S. has reached new recording and creative heights by mixing hard rock with catchy pop hooks and a touch of their inevitable idiosyncrasies. These elements blend to create rock excellence on their third album, "The Briarwood Sessions."

The mini-album starts off with the 90âs grunge rocker "Slap Happy," a song thatâll make you dust off your flannel shirts and rock the torn jeans for three and a half minutes. The album then shifts into some deeper and darker places once unknown in the M.D.S. song realm ala âCollege Dropouts.â They have transcended above their joker-esque stereotype and have brought in some more melodic and abstract musicality into "The Briarwood Sessions" album.

People are products of their environments and in being true to their own setting: a seaside, blue-collar town with a hopeless outlook on the future, it lends to a certain state of mind that is quite apparent as an overlying theme throughout the songs. If you listen to the intro to âWish You Would,â you can almost hear the wind blowing over the ocean and causing the boats and buoys to rock in the bay. The song has a yearning quality as if one was abandoned and left at sea.

The last track âThis Gameâ is reminiscent of "The Cure" with its pleasing almost upbeat guitar harmonies paired with grim but interesting lyrics that leave you with a taste you will want to surrender to over and over.

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