The RA-6600 - Followed a Boy review

Year : 2017
Genre : glam rock
Label : HEMBOT Records
Origin : United States
Official site: > here <

The RA-6600 duo is still adamant at delivering the best traditions of free spirited glam rock with new found vigor to define the genre as fresh and relevant. Their latest effort is an extended play, an addendum to a series of EPs the duo has been releasing throughout 2016, now continuing this optimistically invasive trend with another collection of hefty, straight-to-the-point glam tracks that radiate the charm of the style with undeniable convince power and production-rawness you are not used to hear.

As is the usual case with this duo, the most optimal trait of this release is how it does not concern itself with super-clean production values. The aim of the game is to get hold of the given idea with the least amount of required effort possible, but NEVER less. As result of this creative stance, the music successfully finds a constant source of joy via the act of creatively de-bunking the most secretively kept tricks and techniques of glam, and, the best part is, that the members never abuse their position after a thorough investigation. Instead, they rob a given idea clean, and they are moving on, no time to waste: we have came to exploit this idea, but we are interested only in THIS and THAT, thank you very much!

The lyrics are similarly indicative of this sanely defined flexibility, painting pictures that are relentlessly playful and heart-wrenchingly unfulfilled in SOME sense - but these percepts are way too delicate to project insatiable conclusions on, and this is why the record emerges as yet another honest, and authentic delivery of the duo. After all, there are things you can NOT talk about - and you best remain silent about those. Highly ironic, and this is the music that openly chases mentioned irony in the context of bare-to-the-bone glam. A safe recommendation for the fans of the genre, but all music lovers will be prone to admire its wild, manic, exploitative demeanor that simply does not give a damn of what you think about it.

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THE RA-6600 - Alien Planet review

Year : 2015
Genre :Vintage Piano Rock with Glam, Psychedelic, and Doom Drone affections
Label : HEMBOT Records
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

The (Panasonic) RA-6600 is not only a highly renowned vintage equipment suitable for multitrack ound recording, it also is the chosen moniker to highlight occurrences of a quite distinctive brand of sound manipulation - both rhetorically invented and masterminded by RA-6600's premier songwriter and frontman Daniel Olivas.

The disc is a self-referential looped chronicle of insatiably eager introspection, deliberately filtered through the reality tunnel of a 14 year old youngster: a series of six-, straight-to-the-point status reports on six different shades of the ever-abundant cartoon elegy. Filled with harmonic structures that skillfully reflect the most well established traditions of massively piano driven melodic rock, what separates the Ra-6600 project from the countless peers stuck on the Sir Elton John bandwagon, - not as if there were anything necessarily shameful about being stuck in/on anything/anyone - is the sense of evident irony Olivas is able to court these familiar musical passages with. Read on to know more.

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Adam Gilbert - A Generation of Forgotten Kings review

Year : 2014
Genre : Glam Rock
Origin : United States
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With his latest to date LP "A Generation of Forgotten Kings", Adam Gilbert has constructed and soulfully realized a larger than life glam rock effort that remains faithful to the consensus meta-image of the genre as it was/is/will be portrayed by such pivotal notabilities of the style as prime Elton John, or prime Meat Loaf. The position of the music critic is equally pleasant and relatively uncomfortable in the present context, as this here immense bulk - 58 minutes - of exigent glam stimuli is doing everything in a manner as to politely and skillfully court the ethos of traditional glam narratives, - be prepared to be moved tremendously OR not at all - and the spin surely utilizes an ambitious and rich sound selection to pull this feat out with. The flow is relentless and more serious than death. Which is the proper way to play glam, and that is the frightening/laughable part. If you are into glam rock, then this exactly is what you want to hear, so the disc is a stable and solid effort. Read on to know more about it.

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Kiss - Monster review

Year : 2012
Genre : Glam Rock
Label : Universal Music Group
Origin : United States
Rating : 9.0 / 10

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Experience knows no age. You can think about Kiss what you want, - and no one will give a shit - but the one thing you won't ever be able to take away from this band is that they are the masters of their craft of delivering covert operation family friendly gla... chick metal. PMS metal. The Monster LP is the picture perfect reproduction of the old school BUT exigent registers of late '80s early '90s glam metal. The package - hihi. - really has no shortcomings - ihihi, and hihihi. - to it and renders a rigorously, meticulously and competently constructed glam rock soundscape from beginning to end, top to bottom. You literally have to be a troll-prospect to find a flaw in its fabric, such steep is the level of attention that has been devoted to the creation process of this album. Read on to know more.

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