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 immediately makes it clear that there will be
fun listening to this album.
Around the solid rhythm section formed by the former
drummer of Radio Birdman, The New Christs and Celibate Rifles, who replaced the
resigning Mark Kingsmill, and the bass of Rick Grossman, most of the
songs revolve and allow the guitars of Faulkner and Brad Shepherd
to free themselves in creativity and range as always between excellent examples
of power pop as the single "Carry On" or "Equinox"
characterized by the choirs of Beatlesian memory, and the rock tinged with pop of songs like "Get
Out of Dodge", "Hang With A Girl", the garage of "Don't
Try To Save My Soul" and potential radio hits like the ballad "My
Imaginary Friend" in which you can hear the traditional trademark of a
great songwriter like Dave Faulkner.
"Chariot of the Gods"
does not suffer from the excessive body of an album that has 13 tracks on the
CD, which become 16 in the vinyl version, because it never has a drop in tone,
even when you go to the end where there are some of the best songs of the lot
as the "birdman" "I Come From Your Future", the
magnificent "Settle Down" that we can say, without a shadow of
a doubt, that it becomes an authentic hit of the entire catalog of Gurus. The
closure is entrusted to "Got To Get Out Of My Life" in which
the guiding spirit of Lou Reed is evoked all too openly to put a final
seal on what is a serious candidate to be one of the best albums of 2022.
Welcome back Hoodoo Gurus.
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