Blacklist Union are one of those bands destined to forever carry the label ‘the next Guns N’ Roses’, and their fourth album isn’t likely to change that, even if it does take off like a Jack-’n’-coke-fuelled rocket. The problem is that it peaks way too early with Shake It Off, Mirror Mirror and Evil Eye tumbling over each other in a helter-skelter welter of riffs and rapid-fire guitar solos.
Thereafter things get just a tad patchy – Graveyard Valentine and We Are Not Saints are simply not good enough to transcend the clichés – and the band seem stuck in one breakneck gear and lacking the solid-gold hooks to liven up their tales of sleaze and debauchery. Back To Momo has plenty of swagger, but too many songs are lacking substance.
