of Def Leppard. (CD). Edel Germany GmbH/"Union Music". 2015
Legendary group "new wave of the British fate" so hurried to return on a scene, what even forgot to think up the name to the eleventh album. Under show business laws anonymous disks are let out by the actors only beginning career. Legends of the 80-90th Def Leppard did not let out studio albums since 2008. .
the Permanent soloist Joe Elliot still sings p with picturesque hripottsy and soft, enveloping, almost cat's intonations though already, of course, you will not call him the bawler and the rebel. Guitarists (too the same - Phil Colin and Vivian Campbell) it is excited exchange guitar solo, on - peacock competing in the one who for distortion of a sound uses more lotions. But anything new do not invent. Melodies of group are simple and simple, but are perfectly affectionate. But from former weight did not remain also a trace.
In the past still had albums Pyromania and Hysteria, from the first chords lifting crowds at stadiums. Nowadays Def Leppard - simply very professional AOR group, that is the collective playing any more the arena fate, and "for adults" or even glem-threw fate... And ballads in it again worthy (We Belong, Blind Faith). But hardly Def Leppard become now someone's new heroes. Though the disposition in world fate will not spoil. Present place of group in it already rather nostalgic.
I in a new album it is more pleasant to p to focus attention on Joe Elliot's qualitative and passionate vocal; how on drums and plates one-armed Ric Allen unrestrainedly thrashes, and on methods of processing of a sound of the producer Ron Makhyyu.
of Sound, attracting tracks on the eleventh studio album Def Leppard again it is a lot of p. It and Let s Go single - so fervent and invocatory, as well as its name (in translation - "Let's go"). And pride bugi-march of Man Enough (that is "Quite to itself man"). And a call of Sea of Love with the choral soft muffled background vocals typical for group and rough skirmish of two leading guitars. Did not manage and without small plagiarism - compare the introduction of the same Man Enough to the first steps of the song Dragon Attack of Queen group and not only with the first. . Well and guitar parties in Battle of My Own is already partial use of a creative heritage of Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin. That too at all does not afflict.
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