HOODOO GURUS – Chariot of the Gods (Big Time/EMI, 2022) english version

Twelve years between one record and another are definitely too many, even for a band like Hoodoo Gurus that has written indelible pages in the history of rock, in forty years of activity, even with a brief interlude of actual dissolution. Yet judging from what we hear in "Chariot of the Gods" , the time lapse that divides it from the excellent "Purity of Essence", the passage of time has not scratched the creative vein of Dave Faulkner and members who have returned with a record that is the sum of what was previously proposed. Opened by "Early Opener" a short intro in which the typical background of the voices of the patrons of a bar, you hear in the distance the same Faulkner singing on acoustic guitar the classic "Come Anytime" from the best seller "Magnum Cum Louder", before the tribal pace of the drums of Nick Reith introduces the real opening track that is "World of Pain" , a ballad mid-tempo gritty that imme...