This house is not for sale

"The arena-filling sound that runs through modern music owes something to Bon Jovi, but This House... comes across more like their third-tier spiritual successors, comprised of forgettable dance-rock and schmaltzy slow-burners loaded with endless platitudes and those echoey, staccato guitar lines that bands do when they want to sound big".

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"Bon Jovi's first album since guitarist Richie Sambora's departure doesn't tear up the old formula. There are still stadium-ready rock songs and chant-friendly choruses".

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"Thirty years into his career and Jon Bon Jovi still acts like the underdog ("Every day I wake up with my back against the wall/Anytime you get up, someone wants to see you fall"), and he still sings like he has scores to settle ... Bon Jovi and Shanks may not have done much to freshen up the band's sound - they don't take any mid-2010s musical trends into consideration - but that simmering defiance does mean this is the band's liveliest album in years".

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"New Jersey-bandet forsøger febrilsk at holde liv i fortiden. I de puddelhårs-80ere, hvor manken var fyldigere, damerne stod i kø backstage, og læderbukserne ikke strammede. Men tiderne skifter, og i dag lyder Bon Jovis opulente softrock mere bedaget og brugt end gribende og oprigtig".

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"Bon Jovi er radiorock, man kan have bragende ud af højtalerne, mens man håbefuldt kører ud af New Jersey, men det er ikke sangskrivning, der kører langt på literen. Uden ideer eller gnist er det bare et band i tomgang".

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