Gravity Review
2002
By Mitch Joel
Blisteing.com
http://www.blistering.com/reviews/album.php3?ID=3345

Understanding what people want has always been one of Our Lady Peace's fortes. At a time when they could have segmented their crowd like The Tea Party's and I Mother Earth's from their fellow Toronto, the band split with guitarist Mike Turner, headed to Maui and enlisted the power rock skills of super-producer Bob Rock to bring it all back to the music. With new guitarist, Steve Mazur. and a straight-ahead rock attack, the band has dismantled the fruitier and cryptic messages, laying it flat out, four-four and all the way. The first single, from their latest (and fifth) disc, Gravity, is 'Somewhere Out There' - a monstrous rock radio hit. Gravity is packed with them as singer Raine Maida does his best to sing instead of shrill while drummer Jeremy Taggart asserts himself, even more so, as today's premier modern drummer. Without a doubt, they decided to go big or go home. After debuting in Billboard's top ten this week south of here, Gravity proves, without doubt, that the new formula of writing big-balled rock songs is working and the rest of the album just takes that concept and runs with it.