ELECTRIC BOYS
Ups!de Down [Mighty Music]
lectric Boys’ Conny Bloom and bassist Andy Christell are joined by Slim Thomander and drummer Jolle Atlagic. They’ve crafted the most mature classic rock-oriented album of their careers. In the past the Electric Boys mostly made fun, hedonistic rock’n’roll. Here they’ve gone in a different direction. Once you’re past the 8-minute instrumental opener that will weed out the casual fans, lead-off single is the closest they get to the ‘classic’ EB sound, albeit filtered through an organ-heavy Deep Purple crunch. But the funky, wah-wah-drenched guitars, leggy), Beatlesesque psychedelic ballads (), post-grunge power ballads (Never Again Your Slave), and a handful of straight-ahead 70s hard rockers. All of it is extremely well done, impeccably produced and played.
