They're Canadian, you know. A nation that's never spawned any real, rock & roll dissent, so accordingly, from the beginning, Happiness...Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch looks like a clumsy, cack-handed take on skewed alternative rock. Get a load of that cover--a bowler-hatted businessman standing on a beach, holding a fish in some hopeless major-label stab at anti-corporate symbolism of Nirvana's Nevermind sleeve. Check out the music--crunchy, guitar-heavy … mehrStone-Temple-Pilots-meet-U2-in-an-appallingly-expensive-studio rock tunes that could have been made anytime between now and 1992. And check out those lyrics--shallow stabs at jukebox depression, with frontman Raine Maida delivering pearls like "the world is a blister / but I'm OK with it". Yeah, Our Lady Peace are the Canadian Stereophonics. And so it's pretty annoying when, just occasionally, they come up trumps--the gutsy explosion of "Potato Girl", for instance, which could just eat MTV whole. --Louis Pattison weniger
CD 1
01 - One Man Army
02 - Happiness & The Fish
03 - Potato Girl
04 - Blister… mehr
05 - Is Anybody Home?
06 - Waited
07 - Thief
08 - Lying Awake
09 - Annie
10 - Consequence Of Laughing
11 - Stealing Babies (Featuring Elvin Jones) weniger