To the rest of the world, Harder Faster is April Wine’s most popular album. Hey, it got them on the original Monsters Of Rock festival at Castle Donnington, so they must have been doing something right. Canada, however, knew them from way back, and were known for more poppier tunes like Bad Side Of The Moon and You Could Have Been A Lady. So, was Harder Faster a one off?
This album came out in ’84 and was three albums after Harder Faster. I would say, yes, they had reverted back to a more poppy sound with only a couple of hard rockin’ references. Hard Rock Kid is one of them but it could have been so much more, and Rock Tonite, which is head and shoulders above anything else on the album and is my favourite.
I find this album a bit if a mish-mash, and it feels like they are trying to please everyone instead of concentrating on what they were good at.
6/10 from The Grooveman.
