Hoobastank - Every Man For Himself (Expanded Edition) (2006/2019)

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Date: April 20, 2019

Hoobastank - Every Man For Himself (Expanded Edition) (2006/2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 435 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 MB | 00:58:08
Alternative Rock | Label: Mercury Records

Hoobastank once and forever banished any lingering doubts that they were a bunch of Bonnaroo hippies, à la Ekoostik Hookah, with their 2003 sophomore effort, The Reason, a strident collection of loud, angsty rockers that sounded as if it could have come out in the twilight days of post-grunge in 1997/1998. Not catchy or bratty enough to truly be pigeonholed as punk-pop and way too big and slick to be emo, they were a straight-up, hard-edged alt-rock band, only without any suggestion of being outsiders, either in their sound or intent. They were anthemic, and nowhere more so than on the power ballad title track, which became a smash in 2004, climbing all the way to number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Two years after that, Hoobastank delivered Every Man for Himself, their third album and their first as bona fide rock stars, and it sure sounds like the work of a band that's now established: it's slick and stylish, big and bright, designed for arenas and as bumper music on both MTV and VH1. Bassist Markku Lappalaninen may have left the fold, but his absence is not the reason for the slight changes in their sound; he would not be the one to polish the production, to add the strings, or to add a heavy dose of Franz Ferdinand-styled disco-rock, either. These are all things that the remaining three vocalist Douglas Robb, guitarist Dan Estrin, and drummer Chris Hesse along with returning producer Howard Benson brought to the table, and the result is a record that sounds a little more colorful and a little more appropriate than its two predecessors, which tended to be slightly monotonous and dull. The proliferation of keyboards, strings, acoustic guitars, and even horns gives this some welcome sonic variety, which helps balance the plodding sincerity of the group's grinding guitars and Robb's ham-fisted lyrics ("I am not the next of them/I am the first of me"). And since Hoobastank is about the overall sound instead of the specifics of the song or performances, it is good that there is more happening on the surface, since it makes the album coherent and easier to digest. But even if Every Man for Himself was constructed with the mainstream in mind, it likely won't win any new converts, since at their core Hoobastank remains unchanged: their songs aren't particularly dynamic or catchy, the band doggedly follows alt-rock conventions as if adherence to clichés gives the group legitimacy, and Robb's pedestrian voice alternately disappears into the mix or veers flat when he holds a note. No matter how flashy their new production is, these are things that are hard to ignore, and they prevent Every Man for Himself from being the kind of mass-audience-consolidating big statement that it was surely intended to be.

TRACKLIST

01. The Rules
02. Born To Lead
03. Moving Forward
04. Inside Of You
05. The First Of Me
06. Good Enough
07. If I Were You
08. Without A Fight
09. Don't Tell Me
10. Look Where We Are
11. Say The Same
12. If Only
13. More Than A Memory
14. Finally Awake (Bonus Track)
15. Waiting (Bonus Track)

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