This is album number thirteen for San Fran’s finest melodic rockers, released in 2021. They have gone though a few personnel changes since the good old days, and Brad Gillis and Kelly Keagy are the only originals left, although Jack Blades has only missed playing on one album.
Opener track Coming For You has quite an aggressive riff and groove that powers the song along in quite a non-Night Ranger away. Then that is followed by a more melodic and radio friendly tune in Bring It All Hime To Me. This is the blueprint for most of the album, a hard rocker followed by a more melodic tune. Only one ballad to report with The Hardest Road, and I’ll give them that one. The rest of the album is a very classy Night Ranger album, my favourite song of which is Monkey. A good old, kick ass, rock n’ roller. With customary big hook and chorus and lots of guitar.
This is a Frontiers pressing and it is so quiet that I have to really crank it more than should be necessary. It’s good to know that Night Ranger still pump out great records.
8.5/10 from The Grooveman.
