Loss Rayne kicks off their debut album Fragile Mind with "Come With Me," the knock-down-the-door invitation to "rattle bars, despite your scars, break loose and run free."

The music slows down after this track, but the intense blues-driven sound continues throughout the twelve great tracks. Sadly, a lot of the tracks are not radio-friendly since many go over the five-minute mark.

"The day of her death was the day she was saved" goes the last line of "Faith," a song about someone with the name but not the life that went along with it. They slow it down for the classic blues-infused power ballad "Ode" that leads nicely into the beautiful "Here With Me."

The title song is actually my favorite on the disc. It starts with a crawl and builds up to a chorus that I can't get out of my head (in a good way). "I don't want to be a useless cause, sometimes just can't help the way I feel, I wonder why, wonder why things can't get back, to the way things used to be."

Throughout this disc I thought Keenan LeVick's guitar could very easily compete with Kasi Painter's vocals for front-position, but they meld together very nicely, creating a fantastic blues-based rock sound. Painter has a Janis Joplin quality to her voice - very powerful and soulful. LeVick's guitar is powerful without being overbearing.

Fragile Mind, recorded at Austin's A-Valve Studios by Rob Hinton of 2222 Productions, is a wonderful beginning for a band that will hopefully be around for years to come.

Grade: A

Sean Claes, Editor, Insite Magazine