Lifehouse - Who We Are (2007) ↓

Lifehouse - Who We Are

ARTIST.....: Lifehouse
TITLE......: Who We Are
LABEL......: Geffen Records
URL........: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7441341&BAB=M

RIP DATE...: Jun-18-2007
STORE DATE.: Jun-19-2007
GENRE......: Rock
QUALITY....: VBR  /  44.1Hz  /  Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 67,9 MB


Track Listing:

01 - Disarray                                   03:46
02 - First Time                                 03:24
03 - Whatever It Takes                          03:27
04 - Who We Are                                 03:27
05 - Broken                                     04:47
06 - The Joke                                   03:56
07 - Easier To Be                               03:31
08 - Make Me Over                               03:57
09 - Mesmerized                                 03:13
10 - Bridges                                    04:02
11 - Learn You Inside Out                       04:27
12 - Storm                                      04:26

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                                                46:23 min
Release Notes:

Questions of identity seem to loom large on Lifehouse's mind. On
their third album, they titled it after themselves, and now on its
2007 follow-up, they state Who We Are - a declaration that could
easily be a question depending on the punctuation and emphasis.
Does this fourth album add up to a statement or question? It's the
former, but that doesn't necessarily provide a fulfilling answer
for those doubters who can't tell Lifehouse apart from all the
other polished post-grungers out there like…well, there's not as
many of them in 2007 as there was in 2000 when they released their
debut, but the curious thing about Who We Are is that the trio
still parties like we've just left Y2K. This is utterly untouched
by any new millennium trend - there's no garage-punk, no emo, no
spacey precious pop, no electronic flourishes - it's post-
alternative guitar-rock preserved in amber, all shallow angst and
earnestness, communicated through music that surges without hooks.
Since the band is starting to see the twilight of their 20s, this
doesn't hit as hard as they used to - despite
guitarist/singer/songwriter Jason Wade's contention that he's
battling inner demons by wresting angels on the opening
“Disarray,” it's hard to feel and toil and trouble here - and
they're starting to mellow, crossing over to soccer moms, either
intentionally or not. And they do it as they always have: with
sincerity but little melody. So, again, Lifehouse is pleasant
enough, but hardly memorable, and hardly answering the question of
who they are no matter how they try. Indeed, they only leave the
lingering question: why does a band that cribbed its name from
Pete Townshend's legendarily complex rock opera - so confounding
to its creator that it sent him into a nervous breakdown before he
abandoned it - choose to sound just a little bit tougher than the
latter-day Goo Goo Dolls?