Thundermother - Rock 'N' Roll Disaster

Published March 30 2014

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Genre	Hard Rock	Clare Cunningham	Vocals
Tracks	10	Filippa Nässil	Guitar
Running time	34 Min.	Giorgia Carteri	Guitar
Label	Warner Music	Linda Ström	Bass
Release	02 April 2014	Tilda Stenqvist	Drums
Country	Sweden	-	Keyboard
Producer	---
Similar artists	---

When I listen to this debut album, I mainly hear ten hard rock songs with inspiration from several decades back. Personally, I realized a long time ago that I was sick of obvious AC/DC wannabes and it didn't take me five seconds to see in which direction this piece was heading; a pretty decent release at the better moments, yet ordinary and standardized.

Even though the band themselves admit that they derived their inspiration from the mega-dinosaur, it would be a greater experience if they did focus more on an own orientation. Thundermother is decidedly no replica of the past, but it's a little too obvious from where they have gathered their foundations, and with this amount of bands already following this concept, I rapidly put up a barricade of doubt and it becomes difficult to not compare them against the originals.

These five chicks, mainly hailing from Sweden, possesses a good singer in Clare Cunningham, who absolutely works well with the music. No question about it. On the other hand, with a guitar tune that often has rather the same settings as the old giants had, my attention is set a little too much on past stuff instead of on what is offered here. However, if you have never or rarely listened to older bands playing this type of music, perhaps you can find satisfaction in Thundermother's efforts. It's after all pretty rough hard rock with a kind of scarred appearance.

I have given this album around fifteen spins and the more I listen to it, the more it feels very common and everyday. I don't think that it's really bad or totally worthless, but it shows me no signs of something extra and it feels somewhat monotonous as well. I don't find a pulsating vibe during this half hour and I don't find anything that is able to lift this one to a satisfactory level. Even if the music has some attitude, it lacks that powerful fuck you-feeling, which in some cases can take things to higher grounds and make your blood rush faster.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
5	2	6	7	4

Summary
3 chalices of 10 - Tobbe