It's been more than 20 years since the Danish 'Mike Tramp' started a solo career in parallel with his participation in 'White Lion' whose last album 'Return to the Pride' already dates from 2008 and his last studio album of 2017 (see here). Mixing song and rock, he continues the tradition of this style as did artists like 'Bryan Adams', 'John Mellecamp', 'Elton John' or 'Bruce Springsteen' and it is this latter name that comes to my mind when listening to 'Dead and Ride', the ballad 'Homesick' or 'Live It Out' that have melodies terribly effective and immediately catch and are well in the style of the American. But beyond this aspect, it also delivers us a more dense title 'End of War' of more than 8 minutes which alternates several tempos and which comes out of a classic construction and which brings a slight progressive side. In summary, 'Mike Tramp' offers us an 11th album very enjoyable to listen to and continues to maintain the style of rock artists of the 80s, I quote: « I am a torchbearer of my musical heroes. The seed they planted in me keeps growing and I keep going on and on »... | |
