This, combined with a considerably broader sonic palette - previous Nickelback albums were on a grayscale this is defiantly colorful thanks in large part to so many guitar and vocal overdubs that the record sometimes feels like the Mutt Lange job the producer should have given them on Dark Horse - turns Here and Now into what’s Nickelback’s easiest album to enjoy by some considerable measure. “Gotta Get Me Some” abandons the brutal four-on-the-floor Nickelback signature in favor of an actual groove and the group even sounds nimble on its power ballads. True, this signature sound still underpins much of Here and Now, but the group is now loose enough to throw in a disco-rock thumper (“Kiss It Goodbye,” another in a long line of anti-Hollywood, anti-plasticity anthems destined to be staples in Hollywood strip clubs) and even dabbles in a bit of power pop on “When We Stand Together,” giving it an actual swing, something unheard on previous Nickelback albums, and this isn’t an isolated incident. Nickelback ranks as the 11th best selling music act of the 2000s, and places as the 2nd best selling foreign act in the US behind The Beatles for. Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian groups, having sold 30 million records worldwide. This doesn’t quite mean he’s left his misogyny behind - it lingers, infecting otherwise innocuous songs - but it does mean that Nickelback no longer rely solely on heavy-footed power chords set to lumbering rhythms. Nickelback is a rock band which formed in Hanna, Alberta, Canada in 1995.

Chad Kroeger’s brow is no longer furrowed, treating rock & roll as an ordeal he’s stepped back a bit, allowing himself to have a good time. Left to their own devices on Here and Now, Nickelback have done the unthinkable: they’ve embraced who they are.

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