Hinder Makes One Wonder, “How Can A Band That’s So Bad Be So Polarizing?”

Our look at the closing lines of reviews of the week’s biggest new music continues with a look at the reviews of Take It To The Limit by the patriotically minded Oklahoma band Hinder, which lands in stores tomorrow:

• “It’s also not enough to overcome the most glaring flaw here: Hinder wants so badly to live up to Motley Crue’s standard of debauchery that having fun starts to seem like an exhausting obligation.” [Hartford Courant]

• “So if you were ever young and in love, dumb with drink, and had a head swimming with not just Boone’s Farm wine but also Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, and AC/ DC (to name these guys’ most blatant anthemic influences), you may be willing to forgive Hinder’s lack of originality and preponderance of madonna/whore issues. If only the whiplash they induce resulted from real headbanging, not from trying to follow Hinder’s song-to-song indecision about whether to be studs or wimps.” [EW]

• “[F]rontman Austin Winkler is a bad representative for emotional frat dudes, especially when he suggests on one wistful power ballad that we ‘live life with no regrets.’ Thanks for the advice, bro.” [RS]

• “Like them or not Hinder is one of the bands leading the revival for straight up rock-n-roll and Take It To The Limit is going to go a long way in helping the cause.” [Hard Rock Hideout]