Nickelback
Since it rolled out of Alberta some 13 years ago, Nickelback has been
hit-making, multi-platinum concern whose last album, 2005's All The
Right Reasons is one of the most successful of the century, and has
stoked great expectations for the quartet's sixth album, Dark Horse. A
lesser group might rest on its proverbial laurels and assume the world
is anxiously waiting for it, but Nickelback -- Chad Kroeger, his
brother and bassist Mike Kroeger, guitarist Ryan Peake and drummer
Daniel Adair -- still feel like a new album is a fresh opportunity to
prove themselves.
Their latest, Dark Horse, is an 11-track survey of everything the group
has done so well to this point -- fist-pumping anthems, grinding
rockers, soaring power ballads, heart-wringing romanticism, choruses
that stick in your ears after the first listen and hooks so big they
practically boomerang through the songs.