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| Artist |
AC/DC *** |
| Album |
BLACK ICE |
| Genre |
Pop/Rock |
| Barcode |
600712453723 |
| Type |
CD |
| Status |
In stock! |
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R 163.99
(eB 1 640)
 
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Product Description
Just like going back home to savour your mother's cooking, there's something familiar, comforting and ultimately satisfying about a new AC/DC album. You'll never be surprised by a new sound, duets with the latest R&B diva, synthesiser solos or drastic line-up changes. You never have to listen to the CD before you buy it because YOU KNOW. They've been making the same great Rock 'n Roll album since 1975. Praise the lord.
That said, their last album, 2000's "Stiff Upper Lip", felt a little tired and without inspiration. The big tracks didn't have the bite or huge choruses that make them the arena-pleasing juggernaut they are today and the album felt a little rushed. "Black Ice" has a laid-back Southern swagger to it that reminds one of Bon Scott-era AC/DC but with 35 years of experience and confidence and the knowledge that they are still one of the biggest bands in the world. This doesn't mean to say that they have softened their approach or compromised their trademark sound in any way they simply seem to know what they want and have no trouble laying it down.
The staple AC/DC nuts and bolts are all there Brian Johnson's cheeky snarl, Malcolm Young's solid-as-cement rhythm guitar and let's face it, Angus. The only granddad that still runs up and down stages all around the world in a schoolboy's outfit still sounds as exciting and downright perfect as he did when he first stepped onto the boards in the Seventies. Without him, you probably wouldn't recognise the band, so iconic is the tiny Australian with the devil-horns. The solos are as raunchy and electric as ever, the boogie so thick you can't help but feel it, the choruses catchy and loud and the bass and drums pounding and full of ball-crushing attitude. Solid Rock 'n Roll, complete with denim long hair, sweat and foot-against-the-monitor banging of the head.
Standout tracks are "Skies On Fire", "Big Jack" (a throwback to "The Jack" perhaps?) "Black Ice", "War Machine" and "Rocking All The Way", but the whole album moves along with razor-sharp precision and there is no time for wasted space. Picture ZZ Top in their prime jamming with Buddy Guy and Ted Nugent and you're about halfway there, given that when all is said and done, it sounds like AC/DC and you can never help but smile when you hear 'that sound'.
Much like Motorhead, Ozzy, KISS and Iron Maiden, the Hard Rock world without this incredible band would be a much colder and emptier place. As was the case with the Ramones, because they've been around for so long and made so many albums, one takes them for granted until they're gone for whatever reason and it shouldn't be that way. A new AC/DC album is something to be celebrated and treasured because in a world with fewer and fewer credible Rock stars that we can truly call legends, they still are and this album kicks ass, 'nuff said.
JOHN MORROW
STORE BUYER
LOOK & LISTEN FOURWAYS CROSSING
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