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Sweden’s Thundermother are back… female founded, hard nosed hard rock, with added cowbells.
Now that guitarist/ band founder, Filippa Nasil has brought in new members, vocalist Linnea Vikström Egg and drummer, Joan Massing, the band are truly plugged into the history of seventies music. And although Dirty & Divine is a much more grown up, mature affair than the two previous albums, the music still resonates with that shout it out, Heart meets the Runaways sound, just bristling with leather clad, glam inspired rock.
Live in the studio? Yes, and everything is cleanly miked up, deliciously recorded, exquisitely mixed. Production duties are shared between Soren Anderson and Chris Laney.
The analogue mix is clear as a bell, solid, three dimensional, with enough textural detail to satisfy stereo buffs as well as fans.
The album is peppered with strong, bright, invigorating aural confections like ‘I Left My License In The Future’, ‘Dead Or Alive’ and ‘Take The Power’, all fuelled up with red hot licks and swaggeringly confident choruses.
‘Speaking Of The Devil’, concise, punchy, has a rough and ready verse gilded by an anthemic chorus of stadium dimensions. It’s probably the album’s standout track.
And then there’s ‘Can’t Put Out The Fire’. It has that frantic, cooked up live in the studio feel, with plenty of shout it out loud backing vocals, never an imposition, all perfectly tailored to suit the song.
Out front, Vikstrom Egg struts and sways with the rhythms and the rising heat.
She cools it down a little for ‘Feeling Alright’, a song that is no more than its title suggests, nor less. A feelgood rock song that might make you think the band had spent some time listening to the catchy, anthemic material in The Darkness back catalogue.
And who could find fault with that? ***1/2
Review by Brian McGowan
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