Airbourne
No Guts. No Glory.
Roadrunner Records
5/5
To say that Airbourne’s 2008 debut Runnin’ Wild sounds like an AC/DC album is a fairly huge understatement. Same screeching guitars, similar growling vocals and same pure balls to the wall, pure rock and roll philosophy. Hell, if their guitarist donned a school uniform, there’d be little difference. But blasting out No Guts. No Glory. it’s hard to see how this is a bad thing.
What you get here is the usual formula of chant laden anthems about sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, with a few songs about booze thrown in for good measure. The perfect encapsulation of this is ‘It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over’, the fastest, catchiest song on the album without a shadow of a doubt. Other favourites here include ‘Blonde, Bad And Beautiful’, ‘Raise The Flag’ and ‘Get Busy Livin.’’ Whilst you’ll win no prizes for guessing what either of them are about (aside from scattered double entendre’s, what you see is what you get), you’ll be screaming their chorus out loud before it’s even hit.
Though the album is going to do nothing to shake off the sound-alike comparisons, Airbourne have achieved something spectacular here; they’ve released the best AC/DC album since 1981.
