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THE LATEST ALBUM RELEASES RATED AND REVIEWED
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BLACK HONEY
LEAD singer Izzy B Phillips’s dynamic vocals give this new release plenty of vigour and its tracks draw on a wide variety of influences.
Fire, I Do It To Myself and I Like The Way You Die are particular highlights.
While the bulk of the album is made up of high tempo, lively tracks, Gabrielle and Back Of The Bar offer a welcome change of pace to the driving melodies that dominate most of its songs.
Written & Directed’s title and album cover draw inspiration from the world of film.
Similarly, the compelling album’s powerful and emotive sound gives it an almost cinematic quality that is sure to delight crowds once the band can get out and perform their new music in front of audiences.
STILL WOMAN ENOUGH LORETTA LYNN
FOR her 50th solo studio album, Loretta Lynn is looking back as well as forward, re-examining her legacy and working with a new generation of country singers.
She has recorded new versions of some of her best-known tracks, as well as her takes on American traditional music.
But she kicks off with the incredibly catchy title track, featuring Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood. The joyous Keep On The Sunny Side, written in 1899, is as upbeat as the title suggests in homage to the very roots of country music and the Carter Family, who popularised it in the 1920s.
Other highlights include rising star Margo Price joining Lynn on a new recording of her 1971 satirical hit
One On The Way, a powerful version of Hank Williams’s I Saw The Light, and the traditional I Don’t Feel At Home Anymore.
ALL THE RIGHT NOISES THUNDER
THUNDER formed in London on the cusp of the 90s with voluminous hair and riffs straight out of the Led Zeppelin playbook. Their appearance, their sound, frankly everything about them, was unsuited to the times, which would soon be dominated by Britpop. But Thunder’s unbending commitment is exactly why they continue to record today.
Their 13th album, is part grunge extravaganza, part riotous rock and roll nostalgia trick. Danny Bowes and his band may be fathers now, but there is some serious hip-swinging going on here, that is before the subject turns to Trump and Brexit. Listen and you might be surprised.