Nickelback - Dark Horse reviewed

Dark Horse Nickelback Roadrunner Records Rating: 2 stars (out of 5)

Vancouver rockers Nickelback return with their fifth studio album Dark Horse after riding the success of 2005's All the Right Reasons. Dark Horse, however, conjures up the image of a slow-footed Clysedale rather than a sleek-hoofed race horse.

In typical Nickelback fashion, the album features a mix of hard-rock tunes, big ballads and lead singer Chad Kroeger's love for strippers, with an emphasis on huge melodic choruses. The most alarming result of the album is the obvious attempt to turn each song into a platinum-selling single. Ballads like "Gotta Be Somebody" and "Come For You" feature average musicianship and sound eerily similar to ballads of years past, causing solid rock tracks such as "Just to Get High" to be overlooked.

Nickelback is in need of rejuvenation. Although Dark Horse has its share of huge hooks and grinding guitar riffs, the lack of diversity from the band's previous two CDs keep this latest effort stuck in the stable.

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