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Music : Hunter's Lullaby
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Hunter's Lullaby by: Raine Maida |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0067003076425 Label: Nettwerk Records Manufacturer: Nettwerk Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Nettwerk Records Release Date: August 26, 2008 Studio: Nettwerk Records Sales Rank: 42692 MPN: 30764 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: After ten years as the lead singer and songwriter for iconic Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace this is Raine Maida's first solo album. Amazon.com: Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida has long been considered intense--not just musically but also in his day-to-day political activism--so it should come as no surprise that his debut solo CD, The Hunters Lullaby, is neither light nor fluffy. Including similar but slightly different versions of the four tracks that comprise his 2006 EP, Love Hope Hero, this ten-song CD, according to Maida, didn’t start out as musical numbers, but instead as poems. In fact, poetry runs throughout this disc, whereby Maida repeatedly breaks out of singing and veers into rhymes a la Patti Smith, Saul Williams, and Leonard Cohen. The disc's catchiest tune--lead-off single "Yellow Brick Road" (no relation to Sir Elton's similarly named track)--is quite unlike OLP, with a Middle Eastern-sounding fiddle weaving around Maida's Beat-meets-Slam-poetry, as he recollects his early punk-rock roots. Much of the CD is jam-packed with deep convictions, ranging from topics including politics and activists ("One Second Chance"), to moving his family from Canada to L.A. ("Careful What You Wish For"), to a song inspired by Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth ("China Doll.") That said, every instrument used on the disc is acoustic, not electric (including wife Chantal Kreviazuk on piano and vocals), resulting in a lyrically noisy but sonically subdued disc. --Denise Sheppard Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - This is my "Confession"This album is great - from begining to end. I like to put this on in work to unwind. If you are an OLP fan you may be confused on your first listen. THIS IS NOT OLP but Raine in all his glory. I wish he would tour here in the US more often, I miss the live performances so very much. Anyways, the CD is very good with "Careful what you wish for", "Yellow Brick Road', and "Confession" being my favorites. I don't know if OLP will ever make another CD together but I'd like to publicly thank them for great music and great concert memories. And as for Mr. Maida, can't wait to hear more from him. "I'm an Italian, Catholic, Punk and I'm on my way" Rating:  - Average CDThis is Our Lady Peace lead singer's Raine Maida's solo effort. Except for vocals, it sounds nothing like Our Lady Peace. It's more instrumental and acoustic, but that's all right. It has some very good like Confessional and Yellow Brick Road. There was only one song I could do without - China Doll - BORING. I like the CD, but it's nothing special and that's why I gave it 3 stars. Raine seems to think he's the next Bono. Can a musician, any musician, make a CD without getting political? It's old. Why can't they just strum the guitar and sing? Would I recommend buying the CD? Only if I was a big OLP fan (which I am). Rating: - Great Album!I am a huge fan of Our Lady Peace and I found out about two months after the solo album came out that Raine did a solo album. I bought the album digitally because its often hard to find Our Lady Peace albums here, so this way I was saved from searching stores for the album. Since I've downloaded I can't stop listening to it! It is completely different from anything OLP has out and just great! Pick it up and have a listen. I'm sure you'll enjoy it! Rating: - Nothing like OLP but Great CDHe may be the singer that helped make Our Lady Peace one of the best bands in the world, but his solo album may be better than anything that OLP did. My fav off the bat was Careful What You Wish For, but after alot of listenings, Songs like Yellow Brick Road and The Less I Know have grown so much on me. This is a album that is worth buying and listening to so much. If you enjoy listening to great music, you should just stop now and pick up this great album. Rating:  - Something NewAs is to be expected from a solo album, this CD does not sound like Our Lady Peace. Raine Maida said that he enjoyed making the album because he could hear himself sing and was able to focus on this and the product is a vocally driven CD. In many of the songs Maida's singing sounds more like a `rap' i.e. a melodic fast procession of clever lyrics. This rapping of sorts in pronounced in songs like `The Less I Know' which features Jared Paul who appears to be a hip-hop/rap singer. The message of the songs range from broad political songs like `One Second Chance' to personal songs like the kind message in `Earthless' or the personal reverie in `Yellow Brick Road'. There are a few weaker songs on the album in my opinion like `Confessional' but I ... Read More: |
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