Nickelback
All The Right Reasons

THE REVIEW

It starts well. "Follow you home" is damn catchy, especially with the involvement of Billy Gibbons, who sings a small verse. The riffs are harsher than those in previous albums, even though the typical Nickelback style inevitably emerges in the subsequent tracks. "Fight for all the right reasons" is even catchier than "Follow you home", with the "capra" unleashing in the 3 minutes and 50 seconds. However, the pace is immediately broken with the most unfortunate track of the album, "Photograph". The basic idea isn't bad, acoustic guitar interspersed with very catchy choruses, designed to conquer the radio. BUT the song turns out to be too cheesy, and tiresome by the third listen.
Probably the least successful piece of the album. Chad "capra" Kroeger slams the pedal back on the accelerator with a very "on the road" song, certainly one of the best pieces of the album. It's "Animals", a rocket of a song, for blasting at full volume, which reflects the album cover. The drums mark a very precise rhythm, and Chad unleashes."Savin me" is an acoustic ballad with calm tones, but it doesn't come off as cheesy like "Photograph", the rhythm is less sickly sweet, with a more than decent chorus shouting Savin meee savin meee.

We come to the second single from the album, the initial chords are very catchy and the song flows well, driven by various drum samples and with a very sweet chorus. This is the more commercial side of Nickelback. But the song does its job well. We resume with "Next Contestant", a very strange track, with flashes of electronics, certainly not a "Nickelback-like" track, although Kroeger's influence is undeniable. The next piece "Side of a Bullet" is very nice, harsh, and engaging.
The third single is "If everyone cared", a bland song that says little, a lot of pop that hardly scratches. We come to the track "Someone that you're with" perhaps the strangest and most beautiful of the album. 80s style with a well-paced chorus.
It ends with "Rockstars", the idea of the lyrics is very original, but the musical idea is underutilized.

In short, it's a Nickelback album, a band you may or may not like, whose most frequent mistake is promoting albums with singles that are too commercial and banal, thereby overshadowing the content of the album itself, which most of the time consists of excellent pieces.