![]() ![]() The musicianship is dead solid and tight as on other Papa albums, and as the next few songs show the playing can also be a little of what we haven't considered this band in the past. Kicking it up another notch with the next track "Alive", and the group gives their Nu-Metal fans of old something to chew on with fast, heavy guitar riffing and the solid and brisk playing of drummer Dave Buckner. And from the outset its clear Papa Roach has Hard Rock 101 down to a sweet science, giving this track all the blistering guitar work, heavy bass thunder, and angsty lyrical edginess needed to draw old and new fans alike into the fold with very little to complain about from either side of the fence. Picking up basically where the band last left us on the "Getting Away With Murder" LP but with a heavier and more full bodied sound, the band rips into ".To Be Loved". And with that in mind this album delivers the hard, the heavy, and yes, the melodic sounds of the modern rock mainstream in spades. The Paramour Sessions has the feel and ease of a good rock n roll band making great music with the confidence and assurance of a group who knows making music to please yourself ought to be enough for any rock fan who would care to listen and give it a fair shot on its own terms. ![]() Whether or not the album will please everyone who has an idea of what this band is supposed to be is most likely besides the point. ![]() Recorded in the Los Angeles artist/musician/actor/ community of Silverlake which lies just east of the sleazy streets of Hollywood and just west of the mexican barrios of the eastside of the city, Papa Roach took up residence for eight months in late '05 to mid '06 at the infamous mansion turned recording studio which gave this album its name and along with producer Howard Benson has crafted the most well rounded, confident, and best sounding music of of the bands thirteen year career. Or in this case what they were all about as this album finds Papa Roach growing further away from their musical roots and drawing closer to a modern hard rock style that allows them to flex their creative and musical muscles, yet stay fundamentally hard, thrashy, and for lack of a better term, true, to what fans of this group have come to want and expect of them. "Taking it back to a hardcore level/Better be ready put your pedal to the metal"įor some fans of this four piece rock band from Cali the above line which helps kick off "The Paramour Sessions" is what this group of once Rap Rock/Nu-Metal superstars is all about. The key here is matured songwriting and a sharp unified focus. Review Summary: Papa Roach hole up in a Los Angeles mansion and emerge several months later with perhaps the best modern rock album of the year. ![]()
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