New Music Alert: Our Lady Peace!
July 16th, 2009
Usually these Alert! posts are largely to make sure you’re in the know about and prepared for awesome music happenings for the future. But guys: the future is now. Our Lady Peace’s new album and seventh studio effort, Burn, Burn is gonna hit the stores on Tuesday. I guess to prevent any leaks, the guys have gone ahead and released the album to the internet for streaming themselves. Good thinking, guys! Let’s take a peak at it…
My first thoughts: sounds like OLP, but not like old school Clumsy-era OLP, you know what I mean? Still not sure if that makes it less good… The single “All You Did Was Save My Life” sounds pretty much like a single should; “Monkey Brains” has a pretty good hook; and I am really digging “Refuge”. But Raine Maida isn’t doing that screachy vocal thing he used to do anywhere, like in Superman Is Dead, which I was kinda looking forward to hearing. “White Flags” is probably the closest they’re getting to what I was hoping for.
What do you think of this one? Are you going to pick it up on Tuesday, or stream it forever? Am I right about it, or am I totally off track, sitting in the middle of a field somewhere, lost and confused?
Tags: new music, our lady peace
Posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 3:46 pm by Jessica M and is filed under Blog.
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“All You Did Was Save My Life,” IMO, should have been cut from the record. It’s definitely not reflective of the record’s overall sound. Aside from that track, though-there isn’t any song on Burn Burn that bombs, but a lot of the choruses sound humdrum. I’m not a big fan of “White Flags” which sounds like every other song on mainstream radio.
“Monkey Brains” sounds like it could have been on Naveed, although it isn’t my favourite track. The instrumentals in “Escape Artist” and “Refuge” are amazing…for the first time in years, OLP aren’t following some standard formula. I’m getting tinges of Happiness…is Not a Fish That You Can Catch from these songs. They’ve got this atmospheric quality. I also think “Paper Moon” is fantastic and probably the closest we’ll get to hearing Raine Maida’s falsetto again.
Is it OLP’s best record to date? No. But there’s enough solid tracks on this record for me to go out and buy it…