Welcome, rock fanatics, to Vintage Rock’s newest Tracks Of The Week face-off. In final week’s contest former Lionize frontman Nate Bergman fought some stiff pageant and claimed first position along with his soulful solo observe Again To Nashville – a marked shift from his former reggae-rock guise, and a strong one.
In the meantime the mighty Blues Drugs got here an in depth 2d (freeing their first new song in 4 years), with the superb Tuk Smith & The Stressed Hearts claiming 3rd position. Congratulations to they all, and to everybody else featured. It’s a excitement having such a lot robust stuff in rivalry for those 8 areas, to not point out the public-voted most sensible spots.
This week brings 8 new tracks and bands from quite a lot of rock faculties of idea, each and every one vying on your votes. We are hoping you experience them. However first, right here’s final week’s successful observe, Nate Bergman’s Again To Nashville.
Royal Republic – LazerLove
The Swedish ‘power-disco’ funsters move full-80s on LazerLove, and now not within the fizzing turbo-boogie sense that fanatics would possibly be expecting. A minor-key, starry-eyed cascade of Def Leppard’s Hysteria with flecks of funky guitar immediately out of Michael Jackson’s finer moments, it’s a luxurious chronic ballad that bleeds glitter by way of the gallon – much less moshpit, extra brooding slow-dance. A primary for Royal Republic, and so they’ve nailed it.
Wine Lips – Fried IV
Canadian storage punks Wine Lips have written a model of Fried for all 4 in their data since they shaped in 2015. Occupying a manic, buzzy headspace between King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Dangerous Nerves, this newest one is a decent, ultra-caffeinated blast of distortion and psychedelic punk rock – dipping into sluggish stoney territory halfway thru that provides them a 90s sheen. Frantic, freaky and numerous amusing.
The Remedy – Let’s Wake Up This The city
“We needed to create an album that can pay homage to the golden technology of rock’n’roll whilst infusing our personal trendy twist,” the longstanding, lineup-shifting Cambridge rockers say in their upcoming 6th album, from which this one’s taken. We’re now not certain how a lot of a case there’s for the ‘trendy twist’ bit, however as a catchy, vigorous, gleefully tacky shot of AC/DC-style boogieing, Let’s Get up This The city rankings extremely. Be careful for the total album, Wake Up The Neighbourhood (it appears there’s a theme there…), due out in Might.
Dea Matrona – Black Rain
Final yr this Irish duo have been on shitkicking shape as they opened for Chris Shiflett’s rootsy solo presentations throughout the United Kingdom. Black Rain reveals them in additional brooding, atmospheric territory, construction from low acoustic guitar into one thing that rocks with the velvety mystique of Fleetwood Mac and First Assist Equipment, with a streak of Led Zeppelin III within the background. Great.
Marko Hietala – Left On Mars (feat Tarja Turunen)
Assembly in a juicy, hooky area between Nightwish and Led Zeppelin, former NW singer/bassist groups up with symphonic siren (and his former making a song partner-in-crime) Tarja in this style of his solo palate. “A love music to my spouse which finally ends up uniting two previous buddies,” Hietala says. “Although the music itself sucked, I might be grateful for the outcome!”
Jesse Dayton – The Exhausting Means
The final time we heard Jesse Dayton was once on file, and at the avenue, with fellow bluesy guitar celebrity Samantha Fish. Now the outlaw nation singer/guitarist returns as a soloist with the name observe from his subsequent album (Dayton’s first solo file since 2018, produced by way of Shooter Jennings), The Exhausting Means. A bouncing shot of bluesy, road-worn rock’n’roll, it hinges on despair storytelling advised in a heat voice, peppered with Dayton’s candy Telecaster stand and licks.
Kissin’ Dynamite – Lift Your Glass
Falling proudly into the ‘to blame excitement’ class (and sure we all know there’s ‘no such factor as a to blame excitement’… with the exception of stuff like this), Lift Your Glass is a vivid, big-hearted toast to the 80s at its happiest, all chugging riffs, Spandex and massive hair “Lift Your Glass is a hymn-like tribute to the greater than seventeen years spent facet by way of facet as buddies!” the German melodic rockers say. “And likely, there were setbacks, however in spite of everything our glasses have been at all times half-full and not half-empty! “
The Lemon Twigs – A Dream Is All I Know
The name observe of the New Yorkers’ subsequent album gives simply this sort of luscious pop rock we’ve come to be expecting from them. Construction its unfashionable textures (Seaside Boys, Beatles, Monkees…) on a basis of loving, considerate tunecraft, it’s an ode to the “impermanence and the dreamlike nature of our day after day lives.” “It was once written when I used to be feeling a powerful sense of unreality in my kitchen,” says Brian D’Addario, one half of of the Twigs’ core sibling duo. “Sadly, ‘Unreality In My Kitchen’ didn’t have a lot of a hoop to it so we needed to move with ‘A Dream Is All I Know’ because the name.”
