Cat: 784767. Rel: 26 Feb 24
Rock
Side 1 - Track 1. 10,000 Volts |
Side 1 - Track 2. Walkin' On The Moon |
Side 1 - Track 3. Cosmic Heart |
Side 1 - Track 4. Cherry Medicine |
Side 1 - Track 5. Back Into My Arms Again |
Side 2 - Track 1. Fightin' For Life |
Side 2 - Track 2. Blinded |
Side 2 - Track 3. Constantly Cute |
Side 2 - Track 4. Life Of A Stranger |
Side 2 - Track 5. Up In The Sky |
Side 2 - Track 6. Stratosphere |
Guitarist extraordinaire and former Kiss vociferator Ace Frehley's tenth solo album 10,000 Volts is the sonic equivalent of Gakuryu Ishii's bolshy film 'Electric Dragon 80,000 Volts' - a massive, electrifying, out-of-this-world experience that embraces the pure shreddage of the electric guitar, in an ultimate face-off between human and machine. The analogy of overridden circuitry is unsurprisingly useful for evoking related emotions in Frehley's case, as on the title track, on which a perfectly phased-out riff accompanies the lyric, "She hit me like 10,000 volts, when I saw her face". Then come the covers, such as 'Walkin' On The Moon' and the equally raw in-your-facers such as 'Cosmic Heart' and 'Life Of A Stranger'. No fillers here.