Moggs Motel – ‘Moggs Motel’
Heavy Melodic Rock
SPV
Unencumber Date – September 6th 2024
Line Up:
Phil Mogg – Vocals
Tommy Gentry – Guitar
Tony Newton – Bass/Keyboards
Joe Lazarus – Drums
Neil Carter – Guitar/Keyboards/Backing Vocals
Tracklist:
1 – Apple Pie
2 – Sunny Aspect Of Heaven
3 – Face Of An Angel
4 – I Idea I Knew You
5 – Princess Bride
6 – Different Other folks’s Lives
7 – Tinker, Tailor
8 – Climate
9 – Harry’s Position
10 – The Improper Area
11 – Shane
12 – Storyville
What are you able to say about Phil Mogg? The phrases that come to my thoughts are survivor, underrated, and underestimated. Other folks infrequently point out how a lot of an integral a part of UFO he was once. He was once the only consistent with a maximum recognizable voice and a maximum underrated lyricist. Simply pay attention to The Wild, The Prepared And The Blameless for case in point of what a super wordsmith he’s. Concentrate to this new one too as it accommodates one of the crucial perfect songs he’s written in recent times.
Let’s face it, he will have opened his contacts guide and had a load of “names” pitch up and play “rock-by-numbers”, however now not Mr. Mogg. He’s assembled a crack unit of other folks like him – underrated and underestimated.
Kicking off with a hectic intro that develops into the forged groove of Apple Pie, the band sound recent and hungry, bolstering Mogg’s catchier-than-COVID-19 melody. Sunny Aspect Of Heaven continues that fabulous power with Tommy Gentry’s excellent riffage and the feminine co-vocal from Zoe Devlin including some colour. Rainfall and thunder introduce the darker Face Of An Angel sooner than some acoustic strumming and the band ease again on a bluesy stop-start rocker, all propelled by way of Tony Newton’s throbbing bassline. Then we get the dramatic I Idea I Knew You, the place Mogg’s lyrics inform the tale of being fucked over – I’m positive you’ll be able to relate.
Now for one thing other, Princess Bride – synth strings and a excellent lead ruin quit to an average chunky riff with the synth strings enjoying the riff, including energy beneath. Mogg’s efficiency is fairly shocking, and once more each Zoe Devlin and Neil Carter assist at the vocals right here and there. The drama and darkness proceed at the cinematic Different Other folks’s Lives, then we get a heavy rockin’ stomp on Tinker, Tailor sooner than the moody Climate.
Harry’s Position is a brief instrumental that will have been in a type of 60’s undercover agent spoofs with Neil Carter blowing his flue as Tony Newton and Joe Lazarus dangle down a jazzy rhythm sooner than it oozes into every other cinematic rocker, The Improper Area. Ultimate reduce Shane is a moody ballad and some of the non-public music Mogg has written and sung.
UFO are my band, and controversially I favor the Tonka Chapman technology, and this has sunglasses of the ones data. The songs inform tales with brilliant photographs and characters that arrive with punchy rhythms, melodic riffs, and the ones inimitable vocals – no person feels like Phil Mogg. It’s now not UFO and it’s now not meant to be, however there will probably be comparisons. Mogg and the band have stretched into some very other territory to make one thing distinctive. Nice songs, nice manufacturing, and nice performances make this a super album that has shot to the highest of the 2024 record.
Written by way of: Smudge
Rankings: 10/10
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