This is great, good old Rock and Roll with a female vocalist with some serious pipes and a band who know how to lay down a great groove. If you like you hard rock back to basics this is a great record from Slovakia, and we should know because we’ve been waiting on this since the band’s self titled debut in 2017!
The opener and title track has it all – great song, great groove, great guitar and some killer vocals it’s all you need really to gauge if this is for you. ‘Bad Girl Boogie’ that follows sees vocalist Dory trying hard to be Joplin and she gets close before the band breaks into a hard and heavy Quo-like boogie based on Elvis’s ‘Hound Dog’ and to be honest its a lot of fun.
The rest of the album is equally enjoyable too – I love the crash and swagger of ‘Angel’ where Dory really takes off and there’s a little subtlety with ‘Your Love’ which along with ‘I Let You Go’ is as close as these guys get to a ballad. If you love all of that then you’ll really love the Bluesy Hard Rocking swagger of ‘Get Down Young Love’; and the Purple meets Rainbow Classic Rock power of ‘The Last Sign.’
Two of the best close though – the Bluesy groove of ‘Sold My Soul to Rock and Roll’ and the key-led gentle meditations and epic build of closer ‘All Fears Gone.’ Great stuff and maybe even better than that debut, for all lovers of old school hard rock.
Check them out at https://www.thegang.rocks
