Frontiers Music [Release date : 27.3.26]
We’re cranking the machine back to 1986. Yes, sounding like every Desmond Child Holly Knight/Diane Warren penned AOR hit 40 years ago, the album launches with the title track, ‘Restless’. Only this time with a scantily clad Chez Kane up front, and Danny (Crazy Lixx) Rexon writing and producing.
Is that a bad thing? Well no. Originality is an elusive quality in the music business. Great backing vocals too, used sparingly and made more effective as a result.
Dance floor fillers ‘Bodyrock’ and ‘Personal Rock’n’Roll’ are hi-energy, infectious poprock anthems of the type that defined the 80s, recalling Kenny Loggins’ ‘Footloose’.
Comparatively, ‘Night Of Passion’ is a slick, sophisticated slice of Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, US chart aimed soft rock. Rexon has layered the sound well, giving it depth and width. Underpinned by keyboards and time stamped synths.
‘Bad Girl’ and ‘Street Survivor’ remind us of just how distinctive and dynamic this often derided style of melodic rock can be. And that’s not easy when a well thumbed copy of the blueprint is all you’ve got to guide you.
Further evidence is provided by ‘Strip Me Down’s helter skelter melodic rock ride, a frantic dash for the finishing line. And by the Go-Go ish ‘Love Tornado’, which adds a golden glow to Kane’s/ Rexon’s trashy aesthetic, illuminated by a slice of deceptively simple, neon lit pop music.
Much of Reckless the album may now sound dated, but equally, it vividly evokes the era that defined melodic rock. ***
Review by Brian McGowan
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