Superstereo

I expected a lot from this, cause their previous record is one of my personal best rock albums of the last decade (and of course I'm a big FWF fan). Their weird idea of pop is always there, but there are not as many memorable melodies. Lias singing is very similar to the last FWF album, that's good, creepy and trippy, but I was hoping for more hooks. I'm not disappointed anyway, the sound is amazing, they traded the psychedelic 60s for dark electro moods ("Yama Yama" ... read more

The album starts with a couple of songs that are way too typical for Viagra Boys so my first thought was like "ok they're just being themselves doing themselves and I won't be excited", and it happens a couple of times again, cause they have a template and now we know it very well and it can turn things a bit too predictable. BUT, there are also great variations of their classic themes ("Dirty Boys") and some new approaches ("Store Policy" and "Uno ... read more

Maybe the rest is not as good as "The Way" (that's an unbeatable 100/100 masterpiece of the nineties), but the power pop is strong in this record and there are a lot of classic hooks an melodies that just makes you feel good.

When this came out it was 10 years after their first album but they sound like at least 30 years passed. Sadly for them 1979 rock music was going somewhere else but Led Zeppelin didn't seem to notice and thanks to the heavy hand of John Paul Jones they're already projecting themselves in the 80s big dumb mainstream rock act mood. From this point of view you can even think they were ahead of time. To be fair, Bonzo is trying his best to give some vitality to the material and sometimes ... read more