A good hard rock album can hide another because, after the French of 'Blackrain' with 'Hot Rock Time Machine', it's the Scots from 'Gun' who are releasing a new album 'Hombres' and continuing their adventure started almost 40 years later early with a hiatus between the late 90s and early 2010s, their last album 'The Calton Songs' from 2022 containing acoustic or semi-acoustic covers of old songs.No need to make you languish, this 'Hombres' contains a series of hits which could all have been released as singles. Moreover, out of the 10 compositions, 6 are the subject of a video on their YouTube page: 'All Fired up' opens the album with a first energetic and super effective melodic hit which directly puts the machine into motion. headbanging (see the video above), then, 'Boys Don't Cry', on a well-paced mid-tempo, continues in this well-trodden path of direct and concise hard rock which should work well in concert (see the video here) and 'Take Me Back Home' is not to be outdone with a chorus which gives an irresistible desire to accompany the radiant choirs (see the video here). Also accompanied by a video, 'Falling' allows us to slow down the rhythm to offer us a very beautiful ballad (see the video here), then, 'You Are What I Need', with its well-defined rhythm shows a more blues/rock face with the little guitar solo which goes well (see the video here) and 'Lucky Guy' is still a model of the genre with the three basic rock chords and its bass line which can only make you want to clap your hands to accompany it (see the video here). And it's not because the other titles only benefited from a video with lyrics that they are inferior to the others because the 'Fake Life', 'Never Enough' and 'Don't Hide Your Fears Tonight ' have nothing to envy of the compositions already mentioned and 'A Shift in Time' concludes this album with a semi-acoustic ballad to add to the best hard rock ballads and which should be taken up by an entire audience in concert.In summary, the Scots of 'Gun', almost forty years after their debut, signed an album which would have caused havoc in the 80s and perpetuates a direct and effective hard rock designed for live performance with melodies that we have an irresistible desire to listen to it on repeat...
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