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It's the sound of the band maturing, and while it's certainly more laid-back than any of Live's previous records, that low-key approach feels right for the music on Songs from Black Mountain and helps make it one of their most consistent and successful records.
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Proves they can still write hummable pop-metal anthems and equally clunky lyrics. [16 Jun 2006, p.75]
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Kowalczyk is revisiting themes he's been mining for years. The band's signature sound of slowly rising choruses punctuated by Kowalczyk's rumbling wail has also grown quite stale.
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40Live has settled too comfortably into the skin of a middle-of-the-road rock act. [17 Jun 2006]
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It's sad to see a once-promising band reduced to dribbling out a mewling, half-baked effort such as this, an album with no redeeming value beyond soundtracking your next visit to Supercuts.
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20It's downright bad.
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Earnestly pompous. [Apr/May 2006, p.105]
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EricC.0They released one really good album, and have been struggling ever since. Some bands just aren't made to last.
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MArtinJ013 years ago 8 million America got a copy of throwing copper 13 years later only 50,000 people got a copy of their recent album