Hinder have a lot invested in being the bad boys of rock & roll, of being the “All American Nightmare.” Of course, their conception of danger is tied to the late 80s, when the hellions of Hollywood escaped from L.A. to rule America and elsewhere. Hinder is proud to be conservative, boasting Just leave the Jack and take your Hennessy/Take your Kanye out of my player please/that Zeppelin 45 is staying with me” on the staunchly anti hip-hop Hey Ho, and they live so far in the past they dont quite realize how their power ballads evoke the Reagan years. The new wrinkles are the Nickelback grind of Striptease, and strumming singalongs in the vein of Uncle Kracker. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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