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Tuohi Records [Release date 07.10.22]
Recent Erja Lyytinen albums have seen the Finnish guitarist mixing up the genres and moving away from the more defined blues/blues rock that characterised earlier offerings.
Whether this is a natural development or a realisation that wider audiences await is a subject for debate. We’ve seen this happen with several artists, including Joanne Shaw Taylor. 2019′s previous ‘Another World’ was a further step in this new direction and, in particular, with the standout title track.
On this, her twelfth studio album (including two collaborations), the opener ‘Bad Seed’ is a case in point, showcasing Erja’s characteristic slide guitar but worked up into an infectious – and rocky – frenzy whilst the title track introduces proggy elements. Both are real standouts.
‘Last Girl’ and ‘Run Away’ maintain the consistency – and the rockiness – whilst ‘Never Really Had You’ is an excellent slow blues that early fans will relate to. ‘Diamonds On The Road’ is another bluesy groove and the frenetic ‘You Talk Dirty’ keeps up the more familiar blues rock quotient .
A track like ‘Love Bites’ is also quite arresting and reflects the passion which Erja has put into her songwriting even if it doesn’t quite chime with the rest of the album.
Throughout there’s good backup from her band including Harri Taittonen on Hammond.
Quite how the current direction of travel squares with her older fans, I’m not sure. If full daylight is not quite revealed for the uninitiated, her next album should confirm her triumphal trajectory and further attest a fiery, feisty and – yes – frequently dazzling performer. ****
Review by David Randall
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