Ok, here it is. Today I just got reminded of how great Our Lady Peace really is. Their sound is just so unique and myserious and melodic. They remind me a lot of Smashing Pumpkins. Who to this day will be my favorite band. For the people who are reading this and know how much I really appreciate the sound that is ska...well, that's true...I really do. Hell, I had ska withdrawel the other day. I need my wonderful happy tones to get me through the week. Without them I think I would just wither away in a sort of depression. I think that ska is great for what it does for my feelings and emotions. Literally, it gives me the happiest feeling in the world. But it's just not the same as listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, whose emotion is so powerful and moving. Well, the reason for this post has something to do with Our Lady Peace...so, I'll just cut the crap and will post this. Have fun and enjoy!

Boldly changing shape to go with the musical times, Canadian quartet Our Lady Peace has evolved from the power-guitar proto-grunge band that gave us "Starseed" in 1995 into an appealingly melodic emocore/alt-rock group with its third album. Many of the musical changes on Happpinessx Is Not a fish that You Can Catch are due to the band's vast growth in the songwriting and arranging department. While Raine Maida's quavering vocals, with their swoops into falsetto and hiccuping interval leaps, owe a bit too much to established brow-furrowers like Billy Corgan, Thom Yorke and Ed Kowalczyk, guitarist Mike Turner has shed his Nirvana chordings for a wide assortment of textures and tones that gives these 11 catchy songs the updraft needed to soar. And for the most part they do, especially "Blister," with its helium-heavenly chorus, "Waited," featuring an explosive elevating guitar break," and "Happiness & the Fish," whose thoughtful lyrics decode the album-title haiku.

By the way, the album title is so not a haiku! I hate people who can distinguish the different types of poetry.

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