No fixed address nickelback album review
No Fixed Address was written and recorded in far-flung locales like London, Berlin and Budapest, and it’s easy to draw a line between Nickelback’s globetrotting and the material’s genre hops. Nickelback Hater Launches Campaign to Deter Band from Playing London And while “She Keeps Me Up,” with its porno-funk riff and a rhythm lifted from Franz Ferdinand‘s “Take Me Out,” is unexpectedly nimble dance-rock, the similarly minded “Got Me Runnin’ Round” piles on horn blasts and a guest rap from Flo Rida to plodding rather than playful results. “What Are You Waiting For” is all pop shimmer, riding on waves of airy synths and processed sounds, with nary a guitar - or, at least, a guitar that sounds like a guitar - in earshot. Nickelback Take on Haters: ‘We Don’t Hear Many Complaints’įrom there the band ventures even further afield. The insurgent message is half-baked, but the arrangement - electro-grunge guitars, cannon-size drums and angry-mob chants - is a triumph of sonic sensory overload. First single “Edge of a Revolution” dives headfirst into political waters, with Kroeger railing against the NSA, CIA and Wall Street.
No Fixed Address kicks off with standard-issue burner “Million Miles an Hour,” in which singer Chad Kroeger pronounces himself “10 feet tall and f-ing bulletproof” over a brawny guitar-rock chug.
What results is a new-ish, but not necessarily improved, Nickelback.