AMG Review of All American Nightmare

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music Guide

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 don’t 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.