Hunter's Lullaby

Raine Maida

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 26, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nettwerk Records
• ASIN: B000XSLW6U
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,628 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida has long been considered intense--not just musically but also in his day-to-day political activism--so it should come as no surprise that his debut solo CD, The Hunters Lullaby, is neither light nor fluffy. Including similar but slightly different versions of the four tracks that comprise his 2006 EP, Love Hope Hero, this ten-song CD, according to Maida, didn’t start out as musical numbers, but instead as poems. In fact, poetry runs throughout this disc, whereby Maida repeatedly breaks out of singing and veers into rhymes a la Patti Smith, Saul Williams, and Leonard Cohen. The disc's catchiest tune--lead-off single "Yellow Brick Road" (no relation to Sir Elton's similarly named track)--is quite unlike OLP, with a Middle Eastern-sounding fiddle weaving around Maida's Beat-meets-Slam-poetry, as he recollects his early punk-rock roots. Much of the CD is jam-packed with deep convictions, ranging from topics including politics and activists ("One Second Chance"), to moving his family from Canada to L.A. ("Careful What You Wish For"), to a song inspired by Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth ("China Doll.") That said, every instrument used on the disc is acoustic, not electric (including wife Chantal Kreviazuk on piano and vocals), resulting in a lyrically noisy but sonically subdued disc. --Denise Sheppard

Product Description
After ten years as the lead singer and songwriter for iconic Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace this is Raine Maida's first solo album.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Something New, November 13, 2007

By	J. C. Straccia "Wu Tzu" (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As is to be expected from a solo album, this CD does not sound like Our Lady Peace. Raine Maida said that he enjoyed making the album because he could hear himself sing and was able to focus on this and the product is a vocally driven CD. In many of the songs Maida's singing sounds more like a `rap' i.e. a melodic fast procession of clever lyrics. This rapping of sorts in pronounced in songs like `The Less I Know' which features Jared Paul who appears to be a hip-hop/rap singer. The message of the songs range from broad political songs like `One Second Chance' to personal songs like the kind message in `Earthless' or the personal reverie in `Yellow Brick Road'. There are a few weaker songs on the album in my opinion like `Confessional' but I think that many of the songs like `Rat Race' will continue to grow on me in the way that OLP songs always did. All in all, a neat solo album that allows you to get a more personal view of Maida and a feeling for what he wants his music to sound like. My personal favorites so far are `Yellow Brick Road' which sounds most like OLP, `Careful What You Wish For' and `Earthless' which I identify with personally. I will be using it to hold me over until the new OLP CD comes out mid next year.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album!, February 8, 2008

By	B. Chodkowski "Brenda1636" (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Hunter's Lullaby (Digital Version) (MP3 Download)

I am a huge fan of Our Lady Peace and I found out about two months after the solo album came out that Raine did a solo album. I bought the album digitally because its often hard to find Our Lady Peace albums here, so this way I was saved from searching stores for the album. Since I've downloaded I can't stop listening to it! It is completely different from anything OLP has out and just great! Pick it up and have a listen. I'm sure you'll enjoy it!

5.0 out of 5 stars If you think about it..., March 16, 2009

By	Brandon McKinney (OKC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Hunter's Lullaby (Digital Version) (MP3 Download)

Honestly, if you think about it... this is where OLP has been headed for a while. There have been elements of this album in OLP for a while. This is an absolutely fantastic album. Unlike some other reviews, I don't find a weak song in the mix. It does a wonderful job of taking you through a rollercoaster of emotions and feelings. It has a strong attitude, it has deep emotion spilling out, it's got an arrogance to it, it's got angst. Everything you could want. It just does all of this without masses of distorted guitars.

It's definitely arranged a little different than OLP, but I think true OLP fans will appreciate it for what it is, rather than being disappointed because it's not what they want from OLP.

This is easily one of the best albums I've come across lately.