AMG Review of Stanley Climbfall [Bonus Tracks]

Dean Carlson
All Music Guide

Lifehouse's follow-up album, Stanley Climbfall, stresses impact over subtlety. In lieu of 2002's skate-metal and earnest AOR grunge, Lifehouse are more at ease than most with Scott Weiland's swampmonster vocals and power-crunched guitar riffs. The band also knows how to dig a big chorus out of its thick dynamics when called for, a useful tactic reminiscent of Silverchair's first album and the big-gestured rock of Creed and John Cougar Mellencamp.