New Album in 2012 - "Curve" April 3rd

[bd007h]

Wish I didn't have to wait til April 17th when it is released in the states to hear it at CD Quality. Maybe I'll download a CD Rip to tide me over til the physical release in a couple weeks, whenever one surfaces. But hell yeah I'll buy this album. I bought the last 3 albums on their release date

[todddowney]

You can rationalize it as much as you need to, but I think his good voice is gone forever. I think he can still pull it off, but chooses not to. Maybe it's more difficult as he ages, or maybe Bob Rock seeped into him and he thinks (in retrospect) it was immature. He now seems to think that people want falsetto, but from what I hear from most people they don't want the falsetto, they want the countertenor sound and paranoid edge present in the first 4 albums. When he does falsetto now it's something that anyone else could do, but what he did before was something unique. I think it's fine to be disappointed that it's not coming back (for whatever reason), and I don't like when people gloss over it because it was at least 50% of what made OLP unique.

Curve is better than anything since SM, but it's not in the same league as the first 4 albums simply because of his vocal delivery.

I don't mind the criticism and discussion about this. However, I do find myself enjoying Curve in a big way without really thinking about the past. This album isn't lacking in the vocal department the way Burn Burn was. I will say that I wish there were more odd, signature moments. For example, before and after the big solo in Find Our Way. The song is awesome regardless, but that puts it over the top for me.

[todddowney]

You can rationalize it as much as you need to, but I think his good voice is gone forever. I think he can still pull it off, but chooses not to. Maybe it's more difficult as he ages, or maybe Bob Rock seeped into him and he thinks (in retrospect) it was immature. He now seems to think that people want falsetto, but from what I hear from most people they don't want the falsetto, they want the countertenor sound and paranoid edge present in the first 4 albums. When he does falsetto now it's something that anyone else could do, but what he did before was something unique. I think it's fine to be disappointed that it's not coming back (for whatever reason), and I don't like when people gloss over it because it was at least 50% of what made OLP unique.

Curve is better than anything since SM, but it's not in the same league as the first 4 albums simply because of his vocal delivery.

I don't mind the criticism and discussion about this. However, I do find myself enjoying Curve in a big way without really thinking about the past. This album isn't lacking in the vocal department the way Burn Burn was. I will say that I wish there were more odd, signature moments. For example, before and after the big solo in Find Our Way. The song is awesome regardless, but that puts it over the top for me.

New review:

Our Lady Peace

Curve

Coalition Entertainment

4 out of five stars

Our Lady Peace hasn’t always been given enough credit for its adventurousness – say what you will about the strobe-lit bombast of 2002’s Gravity, but it wasn’t a rehash of earlier albums. On Curve, the credit is harder than ever to withhold: from Allowance’s android rhythm section to the spoken samples that bond the ruminative Mettle, there’s a sense of a group itching to redefine itself as a borderline-experimental outfit. Borderline because the 10-ton hooks are still there in Heavyweight and As Fast as You Can, and because Raine Maida’s tender/tough vocals still forge a deep connection with the masses. Guitarist Steve Mazur emerges as the MVP here, expanding his reach far beyond previous workaday solos and economical riffs, but top marks all around for a band that isn’t hesitant to demand more from itself and from its audience.

Podworthy: Allowance



Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertai ... z1qvS4mrKX

[todddowney]

Have to say again that this record sounds awesome in full quality.

[bd007h]

Have to say again that this record sounds awesome in full quality.

Which us people in the states won't get to hear for another 2 weeks :/. At least it's not as bad as it was with Spiritual Machines when the US Release was 3 months after the Canadian release haha. I at least had a cousin that had the CD already when she was over around Christmas time that year and I recorded it to a cassette to tide me over til March.

[bd007h]

Wait, you're in New York and the Preorder came today? I thought the album wasn't being released til the 17th here in the states

[faninor]

The signed pre-order offer was from a Canadian company.

Back to Raine's vocals -- I gloss over it a little bit because, even though I found OLP right around Spiritual Machines came out and he was still using that voice, I think I was drawn in more by the songs themselves than by the paranoid siren that was singing.

Sure it was more unique back then and I can see how some people are still disappointed if that was their main draw, but I feel like there are 2 different issues here... well 3 now that you mention it... there is the go-to range he's using, the delivery, and the falsetto. Just trying to pick apart the different things that people are referring to when comparing Raine's voice from one album to another. Personally for me, good delivery is key -- I don't really mind the lower go-to range as long as the delivery is good and I think it's pretty darn good on Curve (not quite perfect, I think there's 2 songs where I'm not quite feeling it during a couple short sections). That line towards the end of Find Our Way sounds like it has some of the "paranoid edge" of the old days... (or maybe it's all in the production and effects, will find out when I hear the full quality version but does it matter?) more of that would be cool, sure, but I don't need it all the time and I don't think that's the only way Raine can sing that sounds good.

[DG]

When they perform Heavyweight live, when Raine sings "weightless", the less part deffinitly sounds like that whiney edge from days gone by.

[wl671127]

Hey guys, an American here. For those that have a cd quality copy, would it be kosher to ask for an upload?

[katshimmers]

ONE MORE SLEEP!

[DudeLove721]

Anyone know when/how to access the digital copy of the album for those of us who pre-ordered via Rhino? Will it be up at midnight EST and, if so, do we get an e-mail or is there someplace we have to go to download it?

[dumbandjaded13]

I have to say, listening to the CD really brings the songs out... I didn't even hear the depth of the acoustic guitar in the intro/outro of Allowance, for instance, on the rip.

Rabbits is just... epic, absolutely epic.

*lucky American with a Canadian CD*

[bd007h]

Can't. stop. listening. to. Rabbits

[Fox84]

It's on iTunes now!

[Maine Raida]

Yep, I just noticed it downloading now. I found a use for my iTunes giftcard.

[Furious George]

I was able to buy it through iTunes Canada from the states. Cd quality = SEXXXYY.

[faninor]

iTunes store < CD quality but yeah

[MindsOnLoan]

They're currently the 10th overall album and 2nd Rock album on iTunes Canada.

[Maine Raida]

iTunes store < CD quality but yeah

Agreed, but iTunes store > webrip. I'm saving my studio monitors for the CD though. Already, I can hear many more nuances in the iTunes version than the webrip. I'm a happy man.

[Furious George]

iTunes store < CD quality but yeah

Agreed, but iTunes store > webrip. I'm saving my studio monitors for the CD though. Already, I can hear many more nuances in the iTunes version than the webrip. I'm a happy man.

Ok fine. But that will only mean that CD version = hyperporn.