Gravity Review
A. Ethan Miles, HMV.com

With the departure of longtime guitarist Mike Turner and the arrival of new shredder Steve Mazur, Canadian alt-rock poster boys Our Lady Peace are entering a new, and not entirely unwelcome, phase in their career. Shedding the conceptual conceits that permeated their last album, Spiritual Machines, this time around OLP is favouring a meatier, heavier sound much more in line with Creed, Nickelback and the current crop of modern rock growlers. Everything from the undertstated album art (no arty etchings to be found here) to the title itself suggests the band is getting back down to earth. Sonically, the grit suits them - tracks like album opener All For You and Do You Like It are perhaps the heaviest things OLP has offered up since the Naveed days, and producer Bob Rock (the man behind the board for Metallica and The Cult, among others) has done a wonderful job in getting the band to focus on the simple, sheer power within the Rock Song template. Kudos also to lead singer/ lyricist Raine Maida, whose lyrics are refreshingly direct this time around, and there's nary an 'Ee-yahee, yahee' (as in Superman's Dead) to be heard anywhere here.