  
Oklahoma rockers Hinder are back with their forth
studio album ‘Welcome To The Freakshow’,
and it seems that they are continuing the routine
of making their albums bigger, faster and more
diverse sounding with each new album release as
‘Welcome To The Freakshow’ is easily
the most creative yet often confused album Hinder
have released to date.
‘Welcome To The Freakshow’ features
eleven diverse sounding songs which puts Hinder
up there with the likes of Nickleback, Blackstone
Cherry, Seether and Shinedown, the album opens
with ‘Save Me’ which happens to be
the lead single taken from the album and from
the opening riffs you can easily tell why this
was picked as the lead single as it packs an almighty
punch, as the song progresses Austin Winkler’s
vocals come in changing in sound and direction
through the song where one moment his vocals are
as smooth as silk and then the next they have
a big gruff sound like he has swallowed a massive
pile of gravel.
‘Ladies Come First’ is another heavy
sounding song with a slight sleezy vibe running
throughout with quirky lyrics and a mad flurry
of electronic synths. ‘Should Have Known
Better’ is a slow paced number where Austin
Winkler really shines with his vocals taking the
song by storm, the song does sound a bit like
a boy band song in places but Hinder manage to
pull it off. The album title track ‘Freakshow’
is a bonkers song opening up with some amazing
riffs and big drum beats, with funky guitar riffs
coming and going throughout the song as Joe Garvey
shows off his stuff, vocally the song is really
catcthy with a good set of lead vocals and chant-a-long
backing vocals of “woa-oah, woa-oah”.
‘Talk To Me’ see’s Hinder go
down the country music road and it works well,
the song is slow but have a really nice vibe.
With ‘Welcome To The Freakshow’ Hinder
have made a diverse sounding album where each
and every song is different from the last, there
are many quality sounding songs on the album but
at the same time it leaves you wonder what kind
of band Hinder want to be as there are heavy songs,
slow songs, electronic songs, country music songs
and even songs that verge on being poppy, I feel
that the once kings of sleazy rock are slowly
losing their crown.
3.5/5
Review By Trigger
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