Following 2024’s resurgent release Happiness Bastards, Atlanta, Georgia brothers Chris and Rich Robinson return with their 10th album in four up-and-down decades, with a belting release packed with Stones/ Keith Richards-style riffs, and a full-blooded, full-throttle classic and catchy rock. Whatever current trends, the Robinsons have stuck to their guns in this regard, and this is no different, the burners at full blast with fabulous Stones’ Keef/Angus of AC/DC inspired sounds from the off with the meaty opener Profane Prophecy, the narrator giving in bombast with: “My pedigree and debauchery is my claim to fame / This profane prophecy has got me in its sweet embrace.” It’s not an album to pick out deep philosophy, more punch-the-air rock, rich in riffs and powerful rock vocal delivery, channelling the genre’s colourful indulgences from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Other standouts include the equally voluminous Cruel Streak, followed by the gentler country rock and piano rolling of Pharmacy Chronicles charts other hedonist weaknesses and health consequences, and yet “the good times never end … don’t call the doctor don’t call the priest.” Do The Parasite! is another turn-it-right-up defiant belter, acoustic contrast comes in the middle tracks High and Lonesome and Queen of the B Sides, while the high-octane chorus rock returns with It’s Like That. There’s a real dose of AC/DC on the hedonist You Call This A Good Time?, a delicate pause on the initally gentle Eros Rock (“If I find my way to morning”) before it explodes into guitar and Hammond organ, before the resonant dark, Deep Purple and onwards vibe of closer Doomsday Doggerel. Mortality and roads to ruin may be on their minds, but there’s no stopping this train until it hits the buffers. Full fat sounds? Rock on! Out on Silver Arrow Records.
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