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Kix - Rock Your Face Off

Published August 29 2014


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=Staff's pick

Wheels In Motion*
You're Gone
Can't Stop The Show
Rollin' In Honey*
Rock Your Face Off
All The Right Things
Dirty Girls
Inside Outside Inn
Mean Miss Adventure*
Love Me With Your Top Down*
Tail On The Wag
Rock & Roll Showdown
- Bonus tracks:
Love Pollution (Live 2008)
Midnite Dynamite (Live 2008)


Genre Hard Rock
Steve Whiteman
Vocals
Tracks 14
Ronnie Younkins
Guitar
Running time 56 Min.
Brian Forsythe
Guitar
Label earMusic
Mark Schenker
Bass
Release 20 August 2014
Jimmy Chalfant
Drums
Country USA
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Keyboard
Producer Taylor Rhodes
Similar artists ---

US street date August 5th via Loud & Proud Records.

I'm the first to admit that I never really listened to Kix back in the day. I heard a few songs here and there, but I never actually gave this unit any time and effort to really see what they were made of. When the opportunity arose to check out the band's seventh album and the first in nineteen years, I therefore decided that it was time to pick up on passed time.

What I mainly hear is a bunch of grown men who still sings about youthful things, despite their own aging. It's like the band is still living the dream and this release is more or less a journey back to American late eighties or early nineties hard rock. The songs are pretty much in the same vein overall, meaning a good authentic groove, perhaps comprised of a little boogie oriented structures occasionally and also pretty direct with classic and rather cool guitar playing.

The song material differs a lot in caliber all throughout the record though. I see all kinds of quality changes taking place. A few songs are close to being awesome and some are fairly catchy, yet not totally arresting to make me pay full attention. It continues all the way down to what I believe are tracks which should never have left the state of demo recordings. At the end of the day, a decent record with high mountains and deep valleys which probably will be best served on a designated playlist.

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Vocals
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Summary



5 chalices of 10 - Tobbe


Related links:

www.kixband.com
www.facebook.com/officialkix