Symposium - One Day at a Time (1997/2022) Hi Res

At the beginning of 1997, Symposium was labeled one of the best new bands in Britain by the music weeklies, on the basis of a handful of singles and live shows. By the time the band released their debut mini-album, One Day at a Time, in October, they had fallen out of favor and it's not hard to see why their by-the-books pop-punk isn't particularly inventive or melodic, the kind of music that sounds much better in concert than it does on record. Symposium sounds like a second-rate Ash, without the hooks or energy to make One Day at a Time worth repeated listens.