RAINE MAIDA-The Hunter’s Lullaby
Posted on October 29th, 2007 by ekkoThe lead singer of Our Lady Peace has gone indie! Canada’s Raine Maida is releasing a solo album on
Kingnoise Records, and he’s abandoned the falsetto affect you might be familiar with (well, not abandoned—he still falls into it occasionally, especially when he’s harmonizing with himself on overdubs), and traded it for an honest, rock and roll voice.
“Hunter’s Lullaby,†like most indie rock coming out these days, is a little dark, a little creepy, but there’s traces of the pop chops he showed when he helped write Kelly Clarkson’s, “Walk Away.” “The Less I Know,†for example, has an Alice In Chains lite
feel, and it would be easy to imagine that in a teen girl’s hands, with a big band a crashing flourish, it would be a monster hit. (I could do without the rap break, though—whoever Jared Paul is, he should hang it up.) “The Snake and the Crown†has a Buck 65 feel—it’s edgier than Everlast, but its white blues rap all the same. I’m interested, but I’m not loving it until the bridge into the alt-rock chant, “Who let
you down? We did. We did.†Other tracks keep the grimey feel going, like creeping menace of “Careful What You Wish For,†which could easily be a Nick Cave outtake, featuring a chilling recurring piano riff crawling through darkness.
Check it out.
Bonus live cuts!
Comment By: Thomas
October 30th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Raine Maida has a solo CD? What! That’s pretty good. Do you have the whole CD for leak?
Comment By: ekko
October 31st, 2007 at 8:59 am
I do not post leaks or entire albums. This is not that kind of blog.
Comment By: Deryk
October 31st, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Ummm the three bonus live cuts is not raine maida. you should give us three bonus cuts from his album. lol
Comment By: ekko
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:44 am
Uhhhhh … Then who is it?
Comment By: gm
November 5th, 2007 at 1:22 am
yeah..those bonus tracks are definately NOT raine maida.
Comment By: crackerjunkie
November 7th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Those are tracks by Rainer Maria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria
Close, but no cigar.
Comment By: JKL
November 8th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Those tracks ARE RM. I have that whole bootleg.
It sucks.
Comment By: Phil
November 13th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
thanks for sharing