Album Review: The Flaming Sideburns - "Silver Flames"
Much hyped at the time, I have to be honest and say that I found the sole Flaming Sideburns album that I heard during their first run, 2001's Hallelujah Rock 'n' Rollah to be a bit of a disappointment, kind of lacking the bite of similar bands at the time like the Hellacopters, Turbonegro and Gluecifer. To be honest, the main thing I seem to remember about them rather than any of their tunes was the fact that their singer looked like a cross between Dee Dee Ramone and Ian Brown... Twenty or so years later, these Finland glam-punks are back and, much as they were back in the day, they've come back with a solid album rather than a spectacular one. However, that's not to say it's a bad effort - certainly the swaggering vocals, chugging guitars and Johnny Thunders style solos on the likes of Perfect Storm and Cast Out My Demons definitely tick the necessary boxes. It's just that it sounds a bit "heard it all before" compared to the sheer fury of s...