Three Days Grace
Album: Life Starts Now
Label: RCA/Sony
Rating: **

This album by is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with mainstream radio rock. Slick production seems to bleed every bit of life out of songs that had little to begin with. Meaningless guitar solos fail to fill the void left by plodding chord progressions. Adam Gontier’s forced and overwrought vocals do little to add believability to the contrived and cliched lyrics. “Living in a shell with no soul,” Gontier pines on the power ballad World So Cold. Gontier’s own words are an apt description for the kind of lifeless tracks Three Days Grace has released after a lengthy absence from the charts. Sticking to the same tired formula, the Toronto-based band delivers music that fits the play-it-safe needs of rock radio programmers who will undoubtedly flood the airwaves with this album over the next few months.

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