Let there be nodoubt: The Answer are now Ireland’s prime purveyors of commercial metallic rock. Their’s is a bluesy rock, shorn of hardcore grit and debauched demonic dealings – and all the more accesible as a result. ‘Trouble’ has the dirty swagger of early Whitesnake with a muscular Aerosmith meets Thunder feel. The initial melancholic meander of ‘Tornado’ opens into a primal riff that in turn pushes the vocals into the Golden God hollershpere. This is a good thing! We need more of it.
The pace continues with the impressive, galloping ‘Caught On The Riverbed’. Respite from the juggernaut arrives in the shape of the loose, trippy Jane’s Addiction-esque ‘Destroy Me’. Meanwhile, the inspired, thunderstruck riffing of ‘New Day Rising’ has US rock radio friendly unit shifter stamped all over it. And the ballad ‘Can’t Remember, Can’t Forget’ takes a grungey bent that would fit snuggly on the soundtrack of a US teen TV romance. All they need are a few placements and the Billboard Hot 100 will be theirs.