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Backstreet Boys - Unbreakable
| Billboard | | While the turn of phrase may be cliché, the overall sound of "Unbreakable" screams it loud and clear: Backstreet's back. Unlike 2005's uneven "comeback" album "Never Gone," its follow-up finds the Boys dipping into their old bag of classic pop songs. They are a boy band with spot-on harmonies: They sing huge, hooky choruses; belt out sappy bridges ("I'm a house of cards in a hurricane," the group wails on "Helpless When She Smiles"); and bop and groove to slickly produced dance numbers. Nearly everything here is top 40 or AC radio-ready, particularly the piano-driven first single, "Inconsolable," and the Beatles-y "Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon....full text |
| | Sputnikmusic | | At face value, it’s hard not to be cynical about the Backstreet’s fifth studio album, Unbreakable. It courts just about every popular music style and demographic out there, from the pre-teen schmaltz market through Timbaland-inspired electronic pop and adult contemporary country a la Rascal Flatts. But dig deeper, and it’s a little more complicated than that. In the past, the Backstreet Boys, or at least the real brains behind them, have (if nothing else) understood the value of utility; for four straight albums, they essentially recorded four killer singles, and picked up whatever shit was laying on the studio floor to fluff the record. (And judging by recent revelations about Lou Pearlman, that’s not the only fluffing they had to do.)...full text |
| | Allmusic | | The Backstreet Boys struck a defensive stance on their 2005 comeback, titling it Never Gone as if they hadn't been dormant for about five years. Never Gone was greeted by the requisite flurry of press and a modest amount of success, turning platinum without really generating any real hits -- enough to revive their career but falling just short of making them stars again -- so it's not entirely a surprise that in the year following its release, Kevin Richardson left the band for a solo career while Nick Carter tried his hand at reality TV, teaming up with his sibling for E!'s House of Carters, a move that gained Backstreet Boys about as much publicity as Tommy Lee Goes to College did for Mötley Crüe. Carter wasn't about to leave BSB, though, he was just biding time until the group assembled their next album, 2007's Unbreakable....full text |
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