Our Lady Peace - Gravity
Genre: rock
Chris van Oostrom
AAA (3 out of 5)
November 2002
Aloha
Translated and typed by Eelco den Boer

Canada's best kept secret. Despite numerous prizes in home country Canada and an increasing popularity in the United States, Our Lady Peace doesn't seem to be able to make it in Europe. However the prospects of their fifth album seem better. Producer Bob Rock has managed to put some direction in their energy without losing the vitality of their buzzing guitarwalls. Only the single Somewhere Out There, with violins and all, looks like an open request for American playlists. And singer Raine Maida rarely sounds anymore like an ongoing constipation and tormented chest have merged unpleasantly, so little seems to be in the way of the great songs. Not that the man seems to have more reason to be happy. 'I hate myself for listening to you', he grumbles in Do You Like It. New guitarist Steve Mazur adequatly manipulates the guitar to create the patented irreconcilability.