(Photograph: Emma Gillett)
Australian artist and guitar ace Hamish Anderson is sort of singlehandedly reviving a style we used to fondly name “rock”.
His new album ELECTRIC will remind you a little bit of The Foo Fighters and Led Zep’s Jimmy Web page. However my favourite monitor is “Everyone”, which has a bluesy John Lennon really feel.
Anderson’s album obtained me musing in regards to the decline of rock usually. It’s ironic that the radio format “Traditional Rock” continues to be going robust, whilst Child Boomers get nearer to the ultimate curtain name. Most Boomers are completely content material listening to Tom Petty’s “Freefallin’” and The Eagles’ “Lodge California” for the eight billionth time. You’d suppose they’d be no less than a little inquisitive about artists like Hamish Anderson.
In the meantime, most Millennials have little allegiance to rock, and the younger individuals who nonetheless pay attention are likely to favor the “take no prisoners” hardcore sound of bands like Knocked Free versus the blues/rock masters like Stevie Ray Vaughn.
That leaves a handful of artists like Hamish Anderson to hold on the custom of midtempo melodic rockers (Beatles/Stones) and riff-heavy bands like Deep Purple and Led Zep.
Anderson co-produced his new album with David Davis (The Struggle On Medicine) and enlisted the assistance of Jessy Inexperienced, who has performed strings on Foo Fighters albums. The intention was to modernize Seventies rock and make it extra palatable to younger individuals who by no means heard Jeff Beck or Eric Clapton.
That’s a tall order, as a result of 95% of as we speak’s YouTube movies present younger artists noodling round on a synth fairly than coaxing sounds from a six-string.
Nonetheless, the twelve songs on Anderson’s ELECTRIC album present why rock was the heartbeat of the music biz for thus many many years. For instance, his guitar work on “Stir Loopy” appears like a tribute to Deep Purple’s extraordinary axe-man Ritchie Blackmore.
So for those who’re bored with listening to AC/DC’s “Again In Black” for the umpteenth time, try this fab assortment.
When the rock spirit meets nice songwriting, superb issues can occur.
