Buy Backstreet Boys - Unbreakable
So the Backstreet Boys - unlike most of their late '90s bubblegum pop contemporaries, including Britney Spears - have gamely decided to face the reality of their peculiar situation.
They know boy bands always trump "man bands." Nonetheless, the Backstreet Boys have opted to trot out age-appropriate songs on the new "Unbreakable" (Jive) album, trying to make it work on the strength of their strong (and still-improving) voices instead of up-to-the-moment production.
It's a noble enough ambition, but the execution is a bit lacking. The Backstreet Boys, who have found a home on adult contemporary radio in recent years with big power ballads like 2000's "The Shape of My Heart" and 2005's "Incomplete," offer up lots more to choose from on "Unbreakable." The problem is there's very little separating the new single "Inconsolable," a piano-driven, sorta-rock, sorta-R&B ballad, from "Incomplete," or from the new songs "Unmistakable" and "Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon," for that matter.
Buy Backstreet Boys - Unbreakable
01 Intro
02 Everything But Mine
03 Inconsolable
04 Something That I Already Know
05 Helpless When She Smiles
06 Any Other Way
07 One In A Million
08 Panic
09 You Can Let Go
10 Trouble Is
11 Treat Me Right
12 Love Will Keep You Up All Night
13 Unmistakable
14 Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon
15 Downpour (bonus tracks)
16 In Pieces(bonus tracks)
17 Nowhere To Go (Bonus Track)
Backstreet Boys - Unbreakable
