The trifecta of ballads in the album’s latter half are reminiscent of All the Right Reasons-era Nickelback, although that’s not to say they’re entirely unbearable after all, frontman Rick DeJesus is a much better singer than Chad Kroeger is, and he can inject quite a few doses of emotion into his vocals when he wants to. “Blur” manages to steal the exact same riff from “Little Things” that Bush used twenty years ago on one of the first post-grunge albums ever made, while “Stuck” sounds like an old Seether B-side, dragging along at a snail’s pace for four minutes, going nowhere at all.
Everything about this album has been done to death in some, way, shape or form, and I’ll be damned if anything hasn’t been done on a prior Adelitas Way record. The best word to describe the band’s third effort would be ‘generic’, which captures all aspects of it, whether it be the lyrical matter or instrumentation. It’s not like Stuck brings anything new to the table – the album follows the same formula that Adelitas Way have been using for the last two records. Like most other modern post-grunge acts, there’s a severe lack of variation that limits the output of the end product – you can only reuse the same guitar riff, vocal performance and lyrical matter so long before it becomes a carbon copy of everything else in your career. Raw 2010, they scored more hits with “Invincible Part II: This Time It’s Personal”, “Invincible Part III” and “Invincible Part IV” (better known to the general public as “Sick”, “The Collapse” and “Criticize”, respectively).
Rising to stardom after “Invincible” became the theme song for WWE Superstars and Smackdown vs. When they first came out with their self-titled debut back in 2009, the Las Vegas-based quartet made a name for themselves as just another generic post-grunge band, taking the place of Puddle of Mudd and Saliva once they had fallen into their well-deserved irrelevancy.
The quota for what many call “butt rock” on radio airwaves is diminishing, and music of higher quality has taken its place instead.īut then again, Adelitas Way are still scoring top ten hits. Generic post-grunge is slowly falling out of play, while newer acts that bring something slightly different to the table are ascending to popularity. Plenty of the same unoriginal, watered-down schlock that has entertained listeners for the past few years still does so today, although recently the tides have been changing for the better. Review Summary: Following the radio rock textbook one boring album at a time.Īlthough there are a few talented acts that manage to become successful on rock radio, they’re lost in the sea of mediocrity that is the norm in the genre.
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