Label: MNRK Records (US), MNK-CD-440141
Style: Hard Rock, Rock
Country: New York City, U.S. (April 27, 1951)
Time: 41:06
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 321 Mb
Music Review: Ex-Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley is back with another great solo album. (By WAYNE PARRY. February 26, 2024)
No shock here: Ace Frehley has still got the power.
The
former Kiss guitarist whose vocal debut came on 1977’s “Shock Me” is
back with “10,000 Volts,” a new solo album that’s crackling with energy
and personality.
The title track is another electricity-themed song
from Frehley, who sustained a major electrical shock on stage in 1976
from touching an ungrounded metal railing. The foundational guitar riff
is true ear candy, one that will stay in your brain for weeks with just a
single listen.
“Up In The Sky” is vintage Space Ace wondering about
mysterious lights in the heavens (“I know what I saw!”) and “Cosmic
Heart” is a dark, slower-paced rocker reminiscent of Kiss’s “She” from
1975.
Frehley remains one of hard rock’s classic guitar pioneers,
with a string-bending, blues-based vibrato sound that’s instantly
recognizable.
“Back Into My Arms Again” is a holdover from his first
solo tour in 1985 that was never recorded until now. It’s the kind of
power ballad MTV ate up in the 1980s; it remains to be seen how well it
might do now.
“Fightin’ For Life” is the album’s hardest rocker,
about his days running with a street gang in New York City. “Constantly
Cute” is a catchy pop-rocker marred by truly cringe-worthy lyrics that
even a puppy-love-smitten 12-year old wouldn’t use, and “Blinded” takes
aim at the risks of artificial intelligence.
It ends, as all Ace
Frehley solo albums do, with an instrumental in the style and spirit of
“Fractured Mirror,” the acoustic-electric composition that closed his
self-titled 1978 solo album. This one is called “Stratosphere,” and it
highlights Ace’s creativity and songwriting talents better than many of
the vocal tracks.
(apnews.com/article/ace-frehley-10000-volts-kiss-guitarist-review-fa7f0dd0b4ab051dc6847f64785c6278)
01. 10,000 Volts (03:26)
02. Walkin' On The Moon (03:46)
03. Cosmic Heart (03:56)
04. Cherry Medicine (03:42)
05. Back Into My Arms Again (03:38)
06. Fightin' For Life (03:23)
07. Blinded (03:56)
08. Constantly Cute (03:40)
09. Life Of A Stranger (03:59)
10. Up In The Sky (04:30)
11. Stratosphere (03:06)
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