It is common, even in our country, for bands from the past to reunite to perform live, while fewer bands even proceed to recording new material. But sometimes inspiration won't follow and time cannot go back... In the case of the greatest English-speaking group of our country in the last 30 years, the return is more than worthy.
The album, which will also be released in a few days as vinyl, opens with A glass of broken dreams, one of the best compositions of Drive ever. In Magdalene George sings angry, while the guitars of Thanos and George follow. Headlong to the edge is a pure blues composition we could hardly hear from the band in the 80's and 90's. In Hang the bone guitars sound like they come from the American South. The recently lost Lux Interior of the Cramps, one of the three persons to which Heavy Liquid is dedicated, would be especially proud to hear the Mountains. This song could be in Heat Wave back in 1988 or in their first album, Underworld Shakedown. In Get off my world with the killing guitar riffs, the band goes back to the days of Blood Nirvana and Fuck head Entropy, while Pantherman, which in their concert in Gagarin last month Alexis dedicated to Lux, is one of the most speedy moments pf the album. The Hole in the wall brings to mind the releases by the Earthbound, and Maureen the last albums by Last Drive. Jack of the Highway, which is a duet with George and Alexis, will prepare us for the last song of the album: the Last Drive close their return album after Subliminal back in 1994, with an almost 10-minute cover of Alabama Blues of JB Lenoir, bringing the song to their fit.
Heavy Liquid is one of the best albums by Last Drive, and some argue that it is their best or at least the most mature one. It mesures up to Heat Wave, Blood Nirvana, Underworld Shakedown and it forms a sound collage of all their great past moments. They forget neither their rockabilly and rock'n'roll origins, nor their or their favorite garage bands, or the grunge guitars of the 90's. I must admit that I was anxious to listen to their new material fearing I might be disappointed, which is common with record returns of foreign bands, but Heavy Liquid is already placed among the most important releases of 2009.
8.5/10
The album, which will also be released in a few days as vinyl, opens with A glass of broken dreams, one of the best compositions of Drive ever. In Magdalene George sings angry, while the guitars of Thanos and George follow. Headlong to the edge is a pure blues composition we could hardly hear from the band in the 80's and 90's. In Hang the bone guitars sound like they come from the American South. The recently lost Lux Interior of the Cramps, one of the three persons to which Heavy Liquid is dedicated, would be especially proud to hear the Mountains. This song could be in Heat Wave back in 1988 or in their first album, Underworld Shakedown. In Get off my world with the killing guitar riffs, the band goes back to the days of Blood Nirvana and Fuck head Entropy, while Pantherman, which in their concert in Gagarin last month Alexis dedicated to Lux, is one of the most speedy moments pf the album. The Hole in the wall brings to mind the releases by the Earthbound, and Maureen the last albums by Last Drive. Jack of the Highway, which is a duet with George and Alexis, will prepare us for the last song of the album: the Last Drive close their return album after Subliminal back in 1994, with an almost 10-minute cover of Alabama Blues of JB Lenoir, bringing the song to their fit.
Heavy Liquid is one of the best albums by Last Drive, and some argue that it is their best or at least the most mature one. It mesures up to Heat Wave, Blood Nirvana, Underworld Shakedown and it forms a sound collage of all their great past moments. They forget neither their rockabilly and rock'n'roll origins, nor their or their favorite garage bands, or the grunge guitars of the 90's. I must admit that I was anxious to listen to their new material fearing I might be disappointed, which is common with record returns of foreign bands, but Heavy Liquid is already placed among the most important releases of 2009.
8.5/10
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