The 21-track expanded edition includes the remastered original album and 10 “Live and Intimate” recordings from a special session captured at Capitol Studios.
Actually, the title of the Goo Goo Dolls’ 8th album can be taken somewhat literally: Let Love In is a welcoming collection of songs that eschews some of the darker currents roiling under the surface of their previous effort, 2002’s Gutterflower. Not that Gutterflower sounded bleak — it was clean and glossy, so much so that it would be easy to listen to it once and assume that there wasn’t much there. Such assumptions also come to mind after the first listen for 2006’s Let Love In, but unlike its predecessor, there isn’t much to dig into here; what you hear upon that first listen is…