Let Love In

Performer: The Goo Goo Dolls
Engineer: Doug McKean; Rick Santizo; Scott Campbell; Bill Malina
Producer: Glen Ballard; Goo Goo Dolls; Rob Cavallo; Glen Ballard
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: The Goo Goo Dolls: Robby Takac (bass guitar); Johnny Rzeznik, Mike Malinin. Personnel: Johnny Rzeznik (vocals, guitar); Robby Takac (vocals); Joel Shearer, Tim Pierce, Greg Suran (guitar); Paul Gordon, Zac Rae, Jason Freese (keyboards); Mike Malinin (drums, percussion); Brian Kilgore (percussion). Additional personnel: Joel Shearer, Paul Gordon, Tim Pierce, Zac Rae, Greg Suran, Brian Kilgore. Audio Mixer: Jack Joseph Puig. Photographers: Melanie Nissen; Josh Rothstein. The Goo Goo Dolls' transformation from thrashy alternative rockers to polished mainstream pop-rock stars was complete by the early 1990s, so it's no surprise that 2006's LET LOVE IN continues the sound that brought the band their greatest commercial success. In fact, LET LOVE IN is the group's cleanest and slickest effort, packed front to back with melodic, mid-tempo, and ballad-oriented MOR rock that borders at times on adult contemporary pop. Thanks in large part to the production of Glen Ballard (who has produced Alanis Morissette and the Dave Matthews Band) there are few of the Goo Goo Dolls' original edges left. Yet this shouldn't bother fans who came to love the band after albums like A BOY NAMED GOO. The pleasant, well-crafted music here should please fans of any style of mainstream rock that's not too hard on the ears.

Rolling Stone (p.59) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] outfits its trademark mix of stylized arena-rock guitars and huge romantic choruses with subtle atmospherics and a bright pop sheen." Q (p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Tempering their Bon Jovi-style bombast with chiming, U2-inspired atmospherics, this is music precision-built for vast stadiums."

The angst-ridden alt-rock that bands like Nirvana popularized in the early-1990s eventually branched off into a softer, more mature sound with such groups as the Goo Goo Dolls. Formed in Buffalo, New York in the 1980s, as raw and rowdy Replacements-style rockers, Johnny Rzeznik and company hit paydirt a decade later with the pop ballads "Name" and "Iris." They would remain steady hitmakers for over a decade.

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