Las Vegas Mercury Interview November 4, 2004 4 out of 5 Stars Industry Preservation America Industry has slipped into the foggy limbo awaiting local bands that don't break up or break out within five years, a purgatory where acts excel at a style of music that, alas, is no longer in vogue. See, Industry has been around since 1997, and in this era of garage rock, hip hop and candy-glazed pop, the Las Vegas band sounds like a flashback radio dose of that one group from the '90s you can't quite put your finger on. A spin of Preservation America offers Soundgarden sprawl, STP arena rock, Alice In Chains hesher-grunge and Jane's Addiction groove. Yet Preservation America is fine enough to make you give the finger to music trends altogether. The album holds a stiff posture born of maturity, painstaking craft and professional pretension, yet, refreshingly, Industry rocks because it takes itself so seriously. And doing so many things right--the guitar bombast of "Innate," the surgical riffs on "Shrine"--more than earns Industry the privilege of an excellent cover of "I Am the Walrus" that's all glorious industrial scourpads and pistoning guitars. Let's hope paying dues in purgatory soon garners Industry a higher reward. --Andrew Kiraly  BACK