THE HARD STUFF ALBUMS
Michael Monroe
One Man Gang Silver Lining Music Silver Lining Music
The Double M is back on a new label for solo album number nine…
With hero status guaranteed due to his tenure in Hanoi Rocks, Michael Monroe’s only real problem has been in getting enough punters interested in his studio work to give him a hit record. He should have done it with Sensory Overdrive (this magazine’s Album of the Year in 2011). Or with Horns And Halos (2013) or 2015’s Blackout States. Now, after a four-year interval, he tries again, with hope – like the fountain of youth he washes in each day – gushing from every track.
Like the previous album this was recorded and mixed in Finland by Petri Majuri, and continuity is further maintained by using the same band – Rich Jones and Steve Conte on guitar/vocals, Sami Yaffa on bass and drummer Karl Rockfist. As Monroe has never been a prolific writer, he’s smart to retain those two guitarists, who support him in the same way Andy McCoy did in the Hanoi days. Jones, originally drafted into Monroe’s touring band in 2010, now
