Date Released: 23/09/2016
Label: Spinefarm Records
No wheels are
being reinvented here, no boundaries are being broken down and nothing is being
challenged. You get eleven tracks of uniformly good rock. The album kicks major
arse, it's rock n' roll, I like it and if you like AC/DC and/or songs about
rockin', drinkin', fightin' and fuckin' then you will too.
“Breakin' Outta Hell” CD//DD//LP track listing
1 Breakin’ Outta Hell
2 Rivalry
3 Get Back Up
4 It's Never Too Loud For Me
5 Thin The Blood
6 I'm Going To Hell For This
7 Down On You
8 Rocked Like This
9 When I Drink I Go Crazy
10 Do Me Like You Do Yourself
11 It's All For Rock 'n' Roll
The Review:
Airbourne are, without doubt, the
foremost soundalikes to AC/DC of the current era. That is not
criticism, either. What Airbourne offer is no frills, working class
rock n' roll. Nothing fancy, nothing new. Lots of protestations about being
“born to...” do certain things, whether it be rocking or killing or living fast
or drinking loads or what have you.
Much
like their heroes Acca Dacca, they deliver either quick or mid
paced songs and are not afraid to crank up their amps and let the volume do the
talking. If you have heard “Runnin' Wild”
or “No Guts No Glory” or “Black Dog Barking...” or anything they
may have put out as a B-side, you know what to expect here.
Over
the course of eleven tracks, the band impressively run the gamut of Scott and
Johnson era DC
with a good measure of Rose Tattoo thrown in. From the fast paced
title track to the slower chug of “Rivalry”
and ” Get Back Up” and then beyond
that the band play it hard and tight. No messing, no fuss- straight from the
bar rooms of small town Australia
A
track by track critique here is largely pointless, suffice it to say that I, on
balance, prefer the faster paced material but can find nothing wrong with any
of the songs here. The performances by all band members are excellent- some
great vocals from Joel O'Keefe and his brother ably holds down the beat while
the whole band coalesce into a lock tight unit. There are some cracking riffs
here and there; the one for “Down On You”
is a killer (and the track is a hymn to cunnilingus- what did you expect?
Subtlety?!). Only two songs contain the word “rock” here, but they are both
predictably badass.
No
wheels are being reinvented here, no boundaries are being broken down and
nothing is being challenged. You get eleven tracks of uniformly good rock. The
album kicks major arse, it's rock n' roll, I like it and if you like AC/DC
and/or songs about rockin', drinkin', fightin' and fuckin' then you will too.
“Breakin’ Outta Hell” is available here
