Artist: Pink Cream 69 
   Title: In 10sity
   Label: Frontiers Records

If on hearing the name 'Pink Cream 69' you conjure up thoughts of spandex, make-up wearing glam rockers, then be prepared for those biased thoughts to be blown away as this is probably the best hard rock album you'll hear all year.

Not surprisingly with the band being multi-national, there's an Anglo-European feel to it, with its feet dipping into the early 90's bands influence that was so good back then.

The very Ozzy-esq 'Children Of The Dawn' starts things off and it's a case of here we go from then on with song after song of "old school" rock, tracks like 'No Way Out' and 'A New Religion' that wouldn't be out of place amongst the classics being played at rock nights across the country, with David Readman's exceptional voice throughout that would give any of the well known "stars" a run for their money on any given day, while the rest of the band sound as if they could play this stuff in their sleep!

'Desert Land' is a short but atmospheric song of only 1.27 minutes and it's such a pity they couldn't have made it longer as it would have been the stand out track it deserved to be, but that accolade quite rightly goes to 'Wanna Hear You Rock', the typical anthemic song that we all loved to hear in the days gone by that unfortunately you rarely get from bands these days.

The only slow song on the album is the bonus track 'My Darkest Hour', which gives your ears the chance to settle down a bit before flicking the CD back to the beginning as it's albums like this that makes rock music worth listening to, so hopefully Pink Cream 69 will gain more fans of the younger generation just getting into rock and at the same time put a smile on the faces of the more "senior" fans like me with the thoughts of "Thanks for the memories!!".

* Review by Bob.

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