Since the dawning of Steel Panther - a band which I never thought I'd appreciate but do in droves - there seems to be a few acts trying their hand at a cheesy style pomp rock. Some of the bands are doing it for a joke - all well and good but many aren't as musically adequate as SP - and are falling flat on their faces - whilst some of the bands are doing it straight, Reckless Love could be perceived as one of those acts. The trouble is, such a lightweight journey leaves me begging for Steel Panther's...er...steely growl, because Reckless Love have leapt on the Def Leppard bandwagon and are refusing to get off. 'Animal...' is their second opus and it reeks of Leppard, circa 'Hysteria' etc. It borrows so heavily, and also likes to steal one or two Van Halen grooves too, that it becomes a puffy mess of powdery pomp. Vocally it's just the Lepp's Joe Elliot swooning over a collection of fragile mid tempo plodders, from the synth driven 'Hot', the dreamy 'Fantasy' and 'Dirty Dreams' which sounds as though it's stolen various '80s rock ideas. Steel Panther may be crude but they still know how to rock, and if I wanted music like this then I'd simply go and put a Def Leppard record one. Why oh why do bands mimic so heavily ? I guess this sort of stuff doesn't deserve to be on this blog - and alongside so many formulaic and yet allegedly current 'thrash' bands, I'm finding all this 'paying homage to the '80s' metal rather vomit inducing. Wednesday 21 December 2011
Reckless Love - Animal Attraction (2011)
Since the dawning of Steel Panther - a band which I never thought I'd appreciate but do in droves - there seems to be a few acts trying their hand at a cheesy style pomp rock. Some of the bands are doing it for a joke - all well and good but many aren't as musically adequate as SP - and are falling flat on their faces - whilst some of the bands are doing it straight, Reckless Love could be perceived as one of those acts. The trouble is, such a lightweight journey leaves me begging for Steel Panther's...er...steely growl, because Reckless Love have leapt on the Def Leppard bandwagon and are refusing to get off. 'Animal...' is their second opus and it reeks of Leppard, circa 'Hysteria' etc. It borrows so heavily, and also likes to steal one or two Van Halen grooves too, that it becomes a puffy mess of powdery pomp. Vocally it's just the Lepp's Joe Elliot swooning over a collection of fragile mid tempo plodders, from the synth driven 'Hot', the dreamy 'Fantasy' and 'Dirty Dreams' which sounds as though it's stolen various '80s rock ideas. Steel Panther may be crude but they still know how to rock, and if I wanted music like this then I'd simply go and put a Def Leppard record one. Why oh why do bands mimic so heavily ? I guess this sort of stuff doesn't deserve to be on this blog - and alongside so many formulaic and yet allegedly current 'thrash' bands, I'm finding all this 'paying homage to the '80s' metal rather vomit inducing. 
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