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Contemplating that Buckcherry frontman Josh Todd as soon as advised Traditional Rock that Loopy Bitch is destined to be their epitaph, that music could be the explanation the band are doing the enterprise of rocking in 2025. In a approach, with added furore round alleged misogyny and liberal use of the ‘F’ phrase, it’s their Candy Little one O’ Mine – a music crafted shortly, demoed and never notably properly considered that someway surpassed every thing else they did. Humorous how issues work out.
However now, having just lately celebrated the twentieth anniversary of their platinum-selling album 15 – the one with stated Grammy-nominated monitor on – it’s credit score to the band that they’re nonetheless pumping out bottle-rocket earworms. And new album Roar Like Thunder has loads of them.
The title monitor opens with objective: punchy drums, lean guitar riffs and Todd’s distinctive vocals – gravelly and sonorous however with crystalline readability. Come On swaggers with the form of irresistible Malcolm Younger-esque riffs that you simply’re compelled to nod alongside to. The guitar break is tasty as properly. After all, AC/DC additionally love a double entendre, however Planet Buckcherry is a nuance-free zone. Enter Talkin’ Bout Intercourse: ‘Talkin’bout intercourse, within the morning, within the night, cos you’re prepared for love’, Todd declares. It’s daft, it feels like a sexy Black Stone Cherry, however rattling it’s catchy.
Deed accomplished, subsequent up is a music about getting pissed (Blackout), earlier than I Go Increase suggestions its hat to latter-day Aerosmith with high-octane horn sections. As for Howdy Goodbye’s jangly guitars and Todd’s suspiciously Gallagher-like phrasing, they’ve certainly succumbed to the current Oasis fever. To not say it isn’t first rate.
On the manufacturing desk as soon as once more is Marti Frederiksen, the band’s long-time collaborator whose resume is just about a Who’s Who of rock royalty. Clearly they’ve developed a fruitful dynamic with their fellow Californian.
Buckcherry’s type of sleazy, sun-soaked onerous rock takes ample cues from the greats, but it surely’s delivered with an ideal mix of exuberance and temerity that’s inherently them. Not too way back, Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott opined to this author that songwriters ought to usually get higher the extra they do it. It’s meals for thought. Whether or not it’s carpentry, images and even writing songs about post-booze guilt, doesn’t the ten,000-hour rule apply? Buckcherry are definitely exhibiting no indicators of decline, and Roar Like Thunder is as rollickingly targeted as they’ve ever sounded. Sexy or not.