The energetic and experienced
Swedish sleaze/hard rock band Crazy
Lixx is back with a new and exciting album. Two
years has passed since their last album 'Riot
Avenue' hit the market and I wrote ''Riot Avenue''
was a bit lukewarm, but Ok album. It didn't strike
me as hard like this new self titled
album from Crazy Lixx has done. This
album is one of their strongest releases
ever. Big and powerful vocals from Danny Rexon, who actually sings quite
similar to the fine vocalist Jonny Lindqvist in Nocturnal Rites. The
opening song 'Hell Raising Women' is one
helluva starter with strong choruses and
catchy guitar playing and positive
feelings.
Crazy Lixx has taken their sound
a bit further into an more mature style and
are more adult in the play mode with
more precise guitar playing and the songs
are very much influenced by the 80's
hard rock. Take 'Sound of the Loud
Minority' as an example, it sounds
sensational delightful and tasty.
Half-Ballad 'Outlaw' is a pearl in the tracklist with superb guitar playing and
charming lead vocals. I get some
vibrations of the old, wayward Canadian
80's icon Aldo Nova in the song 'Girls
of the 80's'. One of the weaker cards in
the deck is 'I Missed the Mark', which
leaves me quite untouched, except those
blazing moments when they unleash their
guitars in the middle of the song.
One of the harder songs is the
raw and the bare track 'All Looks, No
Hooks' with razor sharp guitars and a
given party song to be played at high
volume. 'Is not No Rest In Rock N' Roll
'is a straight forward rock n roll song
that is the basic model, and goes with
full throttle on all the way into the
finish line. Fits very well on the stage, where
you learn the chorus in seconds. Some of
the more mature songs are 'Call to
Action' and 'Heroes are Forever' with
brilliant guitar playing and a little
calmer appearance. The powerful track
"Psycho City" with mighty drumming,
amazing string playing and catchy
choruses that along with Danny's
vigorous vocals grows into one of the
top songs on the album. The album ends
with the faster and lighter rock tune
'Wrecking Ball Crew'.
In my world Crazy Lixx has grown
into a capacity over the years and is now a
full fledged hard rock band, which stands
well in an international quality
comparison. The lyrics are better and
even guitars sound sharper than on the
last album. A very pleasant album to
spend time with, especially if you like
melodic hard rock with a driven sound.
Line up:
Danny Rexon - Vocals
Andy Zata - Guitar
Edd Liam - Guitar
Joél Cirera - Drums
Jens Sjöholm - Bass
