Nickelback - Dark Horse Review

While most of the music world was making fun of Nickelback after their 2005 release, All The Right Reasons, Nickelback was tirelessly tuning, and tweaking their sound, for their next release. If anything, this is nothing less than obvious with their new album, Dark Horse. Nickelback has never been the best way to court music fans but with this release, the band has broken new ground. From the slide guitar introduction in Something In Your Mouth, to the sure-to-be-classic party song, This Afternoon, Dark Horse never questions who it is, and that's being awesome.

The opening song, Something In Your Mouth is an erotic battlefield, with the booming drums acting as mortars and Chad Kroeger's mouth, the machine guns. He rapidly spits out the first words in this fist pumping assault, got to meet the hottie with the million dollar body they say its over budget but you'd pay her just to touch it and with those words, you can tell that this is a different kind of Nickelback, this isn't your Mom's Nickelback anymore, Nickelback is all grown up and ready to fuck your shit up! On a first listen, the only issue with Something In Your Mouth is that it looks to be only 3:39 long, but Nickelback, being the brilliant motherfuckers they are, had the second track pretty much the exact same song. Fantastically played Nickelback.

But I think the best instance of Chad Kroeger's lyrical genius is best represented in the chorus from, S.E.X.

S is for the simple need.
E is for the ecstasy.
X is just to mark the spot,
Because that's the one you really want.
(Yes!) Sex is always the answer, it's never a question,
'Coz the answer's yes, oh the answers (Yes)
Not just a suggestion, if you ask a question,
Then it's always yes. Yeeeah!

With his effortless use of spell poetry, to his bold answer to the question that there isn't a question but only an answer when it comes to sex. Kroeger so wonderfully weaves these words together that I would go so far as to say that it lyrically surpasses even, Photograph.

With this release, Nickelback is back and they're here to carry out a full front assault on your ears. They are going to kick the fucking shit out of your fucking eardrums and you're going to fucking love it.