No Fixed Address

by Nickelback

Overview

Always a tad bit cleverer than he's ever given credit for, Chad Kroeger is perfectly aware not only of his encroaching middle age but also the shifting commercial marketplace and where Nickelback fit within that. No Fixed Address, Nickelback's eighth album and by some measure their most adventurous record, doesn't find Kroeger abandoning his gift for brutish hooks, but he has moved his band away from its reliance on Paleozoic power chords. This is entirely a production move. He writes the same kinds of songs, but he's swapped out canned digital distortion for burbling cauldrons of EDM, looping rhythms so it appears they overlap (although he never hints at anything like a polyrhythm), ladling synthesizers into every empty crevice, carving out space for Flo Rida on "Got Me Runnin' Round," and going full-bore disco on "Get 'Em Up" and "She Keeps Me Up." The barely disguised double-entendre joke in that latter title shows Kroeger still finds smuttiness irresistible -- and he can still find fresh new ways to be grotesque, as when he slips "you were busy motorboating on that blonde girl" into "Got Me Runnin' Round" -- but this isn't his default mode: he'd rather layer on the sentiment, illustrated in both the power ballad "Satellite" and "Miss You," which could easily be mistaken for adult contemporary pop from Y2K, and he even attempts something of a political stance on "Edge of a Revolution," where the asides to the NSA are muddled but appreciated. Bizarrely enough, in this context all the electronic flirtation doesn't sound craven but rather crafty. With a decade of hitmaking under his belt, he knows what keeps a song on the top of the charts -- and he knows what is currently on the charts, as evidenced by the Imagine Dragons/Kongos stomp fueling the closing "Sister Sin" -- so he's shifting his band away from its antiquated post-grunge into a sound that is self-consciously fresher and mature. It's not only a commercially canny move, it generates the best Nickelback record to date. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	06/13/2025
Label:	Atlantic
UPC:	0603497816385

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nickelback   Primary Artist
Flo Rida   Primary Artist
Ryan Peake   Guitar,Vocals (Background)
Dan Higgins   Saxophone
Gary Grant   Trumpet
Daniel Adair   Drums,Vocals (Background)
Mike Kroeger   Bass
Dave Martone   Vocals
Michael Sanders   Guitar
Melanie Taylor   Vocals (Background)
Steven Holtman   Trombone
Ali Tamposi   Vocals
Kenna Ramsay   Vocals (Background)
Chad Kroeger   Guitar,Vocals

Technical Credits

Mike Kroeger   Lyricist,Composer
Nickelback   Composer,Producer
Ryan Peake   Composer,Lyricist
Jerry Hey   Horn Arrangements
Brian Howes   Producer,Additional Production
Randy Staub   Mixing,Mixing Engineer
Jason "JVP" VanPoederooyen   Producer,Additional Production
Chris Lord-Alge   Mixing,Mixing Engineer
Jacob Kasher   Composer,Lyricist
Kris Dawson   Guitar Technician,Studio Technician
Gordon Sran   Composer,Lyricist,Producer
Rob Dawson   Bass Technician,Sound Technician
Josh Ramsay   Composer,Lyricist
Bradlee Kind   Assistant
Michael Mueller   Band Photo
Gordini Sran   Editing,Composer,Engineer,Programming,Additional Production
Ted Jensen   Mastering,Mastering Engineer
Chris Baseford   Mixing,Engineer,Producer
David Hodges   Composer,Lyricist
Chad Kroeger   Composer,Lyricist