(Photograph: Emma Gillett)
Australian artist and guitar ace Hamish Anderson is nearly 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 observe is “All people”, which has a bluesy John Lennon really feel.
Anderson’s album bought me musing concerning the decline of rock typically. It’s ironic that the radio format “Traditional Rock” remains to be going sturdy, at the same time as 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 assume they might be at the very least a little interested in artists like Hamish Anderson.
In the meantime, most Millennials have little allegiance to rock, and the younger individuals who nonetheless hear 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 Conflict On Medicine) and enlisted the assistance of Jessy Inexperienced, who has performed strings on Foo Fighters albums. The purpose 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 right now’s YouTube movies present younger artists noodling round on a synth moderately than coaxing sounds from a six-string.
However, the twelve songs on Anderson’s ELECTRIC album present why rock was the heartbeat of the music biz for therefore many a long time. For instance, his guitar work on “Stir Loopy” seems like a tribute to Deep Purple’s extraordinary axe-man Ritchie Blackmore.
So when you’re uninterested in listening to AC/DC’s “Again In Black” for the umpteenth time, try this fab assortment.
When the rock spirit meets nice songwriting, wonderful issues can occur.
