No fixed address (2014)/ Nickelback

"Always a tad bit cleverer than he's ever given credit for, Chad Kroeger is perfectly aware not only of his encroaching middle age but also the shifting commercial marketplace and where Nickelback fit within that. Nickelback's eighth and by some measure their most adventurous record, doesn't find Kroeger abandoning his gift for brutish hooks, but he has moved his band away from its reliance on power chords. This is entirely a production move. He writes the same kinds of songs, but he's swapped out canned digital distortion for burbling cauldrons of EDM, looping rhythms so it appears they overlap (although he never hints at anything polyrhythmic), ladling synthesizers into every empty crevice, and going full-bore disco on "Get 'Em Up" and "She Keeps Me Up." So he's shifting his band away from its antiquated post-grunge into a sound that is self-consciously fresher and mature. It's not only a commercially canny move, it generates the best Nickelback record to date." (S.T. Erlewine, Allmusic; 3,5 uit 5 sterren)

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