Kid Rock

Kid Rock

The good news about Kid Rock’s fourth album: He’s come up with five pretty strong songs that show a human being lurking beneath the swaggering rock god public persona. The bad news: You’ll have to wade through 10 others concerned with little beyond reminding everyone what a stud he is. While he clearly is having the most fun trying to prove he deserves a place in the upper echelon of rock’s bad boys, the only songs that don’t sound like a hundred others are the ones in which he drops his mask.

Take away: Softer rock

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Edited by Cara DiPasquale ([email protected]) and Joe Knowles ([email protected])