The mid-tempo cut features a guest hook from fellow Danish singer, Stine Bramsen, of the band Alphabeat, and it's a sweet, swaying duet that alternates between English and Danish lyricism. If that song is the hooky shot, then "Dagen Før" is the down-tempo chaser. The former is a swingin' summer jam that finds the midway point between catchy SoCal pop-punk and Volbeat's affinity for retro rock & roll. Volbeat Rewind, Replay, Rebound Written by: AP on 23:17:36Īs this country’s biggest rock/metal export, Volbeat have had to endure their fair share of derision during their skyrocketing career, its volume and nastiness growing in tune with the band’s success.Titled "Wait a Minute My Girl" and "Dagen Før," the tracks mark the band's first new material since their 2019 full-length, Rewind, Replay, Rebound.
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NEW VOLBEAT ALBUM TITLE CODEĪ lot of the critique can be explained by Janteloven (a Nordic social code that disdains individual achievement), but it would be overly dismissive not to recognise that some of the most vocal critics of the Copenhagen-born outfit have a point. It has been a long time since Volbeat last released a record worth batting an eyelid over, and this latest offering, “Rewind, Replay, Rebound”, is hardly capable of reversing that trend. In fact, the album’s title neatly explains what the problem is, namely that it feels like the four musicians have no interest in taking their fans by surprise anymore, preferring instead to repackage a tried and tested formula endlessly, and without inspiration. Nowhere is this complacent mindset more obvious than in the opening track and lead single, “Last Day Under the Sun”, which, as well as sounding like a prosaic alternative rock anthem instrumentally, hits a new low in terms of the band’s songwriting.
In lieu of actual lyrics, frontman Michael Poulsen seems to have realised that your average Volbeat fan only needs an easy melody to mumble along to between swigs of beer at their concerts, and thus decided that it would be sufficient just to mindlessly repeat the title of the song in the chorus: “Well, it’s the last day under / Last day under the / Last day under / Last day under the / Last day under, under the sun / Yeah, it’s the last day under, under the sun”.
It is the worst example to be sure, but lazy writing rears its head all across the album, while tracks worth raising an eyebrow about turn out to be something of a rarity.
One of the better cuts arrives early in the shape of “Pelvis on Fire”, which recalls Volbeat’s breakthrough circa 2007’s “Rock the Rebel / Metal the Devil”, when their signature fusion of late-era Elvis, heavy metal and rockabilly still carried an irresistible swagger. It is somewhat ironic that much of the appeal of this song owes to Poulsen’s sprightly vocal antics, with plenty of mm-hmm’s, ah-hah’s and brisk singing jazzing up its punk-style rhythm and riffs. In general, it is the songs that find Volbeat steering their gaze back toward their heyday, as well as the ones featuring guest musicians that stand tallest on “Rewind, Replay, Rebound”. One of the more star-studded pieces is “Die to Live”, which enlists the services of Clutch’s Neil Fallon, pianist Raynier Jacob Jacildo and saxophonist Doug Corcoran to generate the consummate highlight of this rather half-baked album. Upbeat and rowdy, it is the sort of festive boogie-woogie psalm that Volbeat was all about when they still used to play in intimate pubs in the mid-‘00s, and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t leave me feeling a bit nostalgic.
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