Our second taste of this forthcoming Black Country Communion-offshoot band’s self-titled debut finds California Breed riding a firmament readjusting beat from Jason Bonham toward lip-smacking heavy-rock nirvana.
Guitarist Andrew Watt adds a riffy accompaniment to Glenn Hughes dangerous purr, and “Midnight Oil” — another advance track, after “Sweet Tea,” from California Breed — is complete. A throwback in every way, this is a terrific combination of Led Zeppelin’s montrous stomp (right down to Bonham’s eruptive final solo) and Deep Purple’s Hughes-era funky slink.
And also, the kind of music Hughes should have been making when he instead descended into a drug-induced post-Purple haze into the 1980s. As with the previous offering, “Midnight Oil” is as direct, as lean and unfrilly, as anything Hughes has done for a number of years, Black Country Communion included.
That points to an album filled with no-bullshit rock, aimed not at the head but at just below the belt. California Breed is due via Frontier Records on May 20, 2014.
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