Three albums since L.A. Weapons guitarist Tracii Weapons and singer Phil Lewis patched up their variations and received again collectively, and the reunion appears to be holding. Black Diamond, their fourteenth album in whole, is a blast of unadulterated onerous rock that calls again to the Sundown Strip’s late-80s heyday with out dropping itself in nostalgia.
Howling opening observe You Betray crackles with electrical energy and menace, rooting it squarely within the right here and now, and Gonna Lose’s sleaze rock vitality is punctuated by a billowing, jangling breakdown, however Black Diamonds principally wears its Hollywood heritage on the sleeve of its battered leather-based jacket.
Bought It Flawed hitches Lewis’ charisma-over-technique vocal to an itchy Weapons riff, the sneering Babylon may have snuck onto both of their first two albums with out anybody noticing, and Diamonds is a scuffed, unhealthy boy ballad with a killer refrain.
The occasional concession to modernity apart, there’s little right here to scare the horses. However then nobody is coming to an L.A. Weapons album for prog-jazz epics, simply pure-blooded rock’n’roll. And with Black Diamonds, it’s job performed on that entrance.
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