Jet Fuel Chemistry are a young band with a full-grown attitude and an insightful message to share. Social media is ripping the heart out of the younger generations, fuelling depression and aimlessness and robbing them of a true identity.
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Since signing with Frontiers Music last year, 2020 has been quite a prolific year in terms of releases for the mighty Blue Öyster Cult. The live album and DVD of the ‘Agents Of Fortune 40th Anniversary’ came out early this year, followed by very welcome re-releases of 1998’s ‘Heaven Forbid’ and 2001’s ‘Curse Of The Hidden Mirror’, both largely overlooked BÖC gems which had become pretty hard to get hold of. So ‘45th Anniversary – Live In London’ is the fourth release on Frontiers this year, with strong hints that a brand new studio album will follow before the year is out. So there’s plenty to cheer about for BÖC fans, despite the inevitable postponement of the live shows, mostly with Deep Purple, put back to next year.
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Well, this takes John B back to high school. This is exactly the kind of thing he listened to back then. He has spoken about this before but it warrants mentioning again here: sometimes nostalgia is best left in the past as things rarely live up to the memory but an album like this really works because this matched the memory he has rather than what the truth might have been. That makes this stand out as such a great album to me. It matches the nostalgia. This is what JB remembers loving – and an excellent example of it at that.
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Look up the term “kick-ass rock ‘n’ roll” in the Oxford Dictionary Of Musical Terminology and you will see a number of references. One of them, of course, is this very website that you are reading at this exact moment in time, as we have been delivering exactly that for the past decade… and another will be legendary Swedish glunkers Diamond Dogs, who have been doing the same since the early part of the 1990s and are serving us a reminder of their collective genius with this, the latest in a series of re-issues from their first decade of kickin’ those very same asses…
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This one is a bit out of left field. It took John B a little while to figure out what to make of what he was hearing. There is such a wide range of styles that all come into play throughout the album. You never feel totally grounded in what you are experiencing – but JB means that in a good way. Every layer adds depth and texture. While still feeling connected through the experience each track also feels very unique from one another. Kind of like when you are watching a TV show with very set characters but each episode is a self-contained story. Our man gets that kind of impression. Every track is in the same family but takes on its own style distinct from the rest. It makes for a really cool experience.
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