As one of many boy bands vying for market share at the turn of the millennium, Point Break had their work cut out for them, with strong competition from Five, Westlife, Backstreet Boys, Boyzone and N-Sync to name but a few. As a result, on their debut album Apocadelic, they seem to have decided to adopt aspects of all their competitors' sounds in an attempt to become jacks-of-all-trades. The strange thing is that the end product sounds somewhat dated, more New Kids On The Block than the contemporaries whom they seem to be so desperate to emulate. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as storming tracks like "Stand Tough" and "Do We Rock" attest, however it also means that the listener is subjected to such abominations as "Freakytime" with its bizarre, and slightly menacing, refrain of "If you're looking for a freaky time, baby, you can always count on me, I'll be waiting". Had this been released in the late 1980s/early 1990s, Point Break would have been huge. As it is, they look destined to be just another boy band also ran, here today and gone tomorrow. --Helen Marquis
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