On their seventh album, The Toadies has returned with an album full of purpose and meaning. After 2015\u2019s semi-acoustic misstep Heretics<\/i>, they have come back with a rockin\u2019 sound once again. Kicking things off with the slow burning rocker \u201cWhen I Die,\u201d the band has made a statement: \u201cRock isn\u2019t dead!\u201d<\/p>\n
Personal favorites include \u201cPolly Jean,\u201d a track on which bassist Doni Blair has to be applauded for his work and the intensity of the riff all throughout. \u201cHuman Cannonball\u201d is a catchy sing-along and one of the catchiest songs the band has released in quite some time. \u201cMama Take Me Home\u201d reminds me of something off of Hell Below\/Stars Above<\/i> and would be great for slow dancing to a moon-filled night.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou Know The Words\u201d works as another slow-burning rocker with some great backing vocals from the band. Not everything is a winner, however; the unnecessary cover of the classic \u201cI Put A Spell on You\u201d featuring organ from Journey\/Santana keyboardist Gregg Rolie does absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n
First single \u201cBroke Down Stupid\u201d is a good track; it\u2019s not heavy enough for the radio but is still a pretty decent song that one will remember long after the record is over. \u201cEcho\u201d is a quick little cut but works really well.<\/p>\n
All in all, though the band has gotten a bit greyer and older and the songs have slowed down a bit tempo-wise, they have proved they can still rock with the best of them. They are also one of those few \u201890s bands that I feel can give some of the newer \u2018rock\u2019 bands a run for their money. As it turned out, this is one of the finest rock albums to come out this year and deserves to be heard by as many people who still love good ol\u2019 alternative rock without any frills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8387],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45122","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-toadies","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45122"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45122"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}