Artist: Fallen Red
   Title: Shake The Faith
   Label:
Rocksector Records

Hailing from Cumbria Falling Red are one of those rare breeds of young bands who don’t fall for convention and do the music they want to do, hard, fast and dirty.

This album is a real insight into the minds of these four young guys, they’ve been described as a modern Guns n' Roses by some, but they are so much more than that, this band don’t have attitudes bigger than the band and its music.

The album gets underway with ‘How You Feel (On Me)' and from here on in you're thrown back to that Sunset Strip style, but with a modern edge.  Yes the bad ass rock is there in spades, but the boys also have a punk influence, not your Sex Pistols more The Ramones or even a New York Dolls vibe, groove filled rock with attitude.

The album continues with ‘Thrive’, again a huge guitar sound wrapped around a monster back beat, as frontman Rozey delivers a sleaze driven vocal as well as pumping out the licks on lead guitar faster than a Uzi delivers rounds.

To keep this style fresh and modern you’ve got to have belief in yourselves to deliver the goods and bring in something new and the band have it in buckets full, as one of my favourite tracks off the album ‘Out Of Control” shows.  This is groove filled rock at its best and it has one of the best sing-a-long chorus lines I’ve heard this year.

‘You Were Out To Get Me’ and ‘Sue You For Your Soul’ are straight up rock n' roll, think Helicopters or Backyard Babies and you won't be far wrong with what these guys sound like.

There's no rest for the wicked as things continue at breakneck speed with ‘Immoral Heights Of A Lowlife’ and the anthemic tones of ‘No Good, So Wrong, So Right’, before this tremendous album closes with the title track ‘Shake The Faith’, a real stomping rocker.

The band are currently on tour with Dave Evans and ripping up a storm and later are touring the UK, so if you missed them this time, check them out next time, because these guys sure know how to rock and keeping the sleaze flag flying here in the UK.

 Tracklisting:

01.How You Feel (On Me)
02. Thrive
03. Out Of Control
04. You Were Out To Get Me
05. Sue You For Your Soul
06. Immoral Heights Of A Lowlife
07. No Good, So Wrong, So Right
08. Shake The Faith  

 

                  

 

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