The Struts – Strange Days (Interscope)
I am in love with this record.
Is it great? No, not really.
Is it profound? Oh, good lord, no!
Is it Kiss with a frontman who can sing? YES!
The title track opens the album and features Robbie Williams’s unbelievable pipes, and is the least Kiss-like track on the entire presentation. From that point on, Strange Days is a non-stop festival of power chords, wailing vocals, songs with almost no substance, and a whole lot of volume. IT MUST BE PLAYED LOUD. It loses so much if it’s not just ripping through the speakers.
And honestly, it’s just that kind of music. What kind of mole-person listens to Kiss softly? No one!
Oh, the icing on the cake of this leather-vested glam-rock magnum opus? A cover of “Do You Love Me”, by…oh, you get it by now.
There are plenty of other tracks to get your hair moving though. “All Dressed Up (With Nowhere To Go)” is reminiscent of “Hot Blooded”, “Wild Child” features Tom Morello, doing his thing, and “Cool” has elements of Jet and early Mooney Suzuki. There’s a whole lot of distortion to be had here, and none of the tracks are skip-worthy. Give yourself a party and jam this loud.
FFO: The Darkness, KISS, Jet
- J-J-J-J-JR
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