Cold Chisel -"Blood moon"

                       Cold Chisel -"Blood moon"

 

Jimmy Barnes is the voice of Australia and one of my all favorite singers of all times. I was introduced to Cold Chisel in the late 80s by some Greek Australian friends (The Lord...R.I.P) and never left the building after that. The honesty of the lyrics, the heart of the music, the stripped to the bone rock n roll feeling, had and still have a major impact in me. With their latest work they start with a breathtaking self explanatory "Getting the band back together" and move on to a dark, sentimentally heavy, album. Cold Chisel are entertainers and story tellers. They re also musicians who are ageing and start counting losses. This album is the product of their maturity as persons and humans. It rocks not only with the drums and the screaming guitars but with the overall essence of the everlasting time, the loss and the decay of the humanity, all been brought in to our ears by the raw voice of the might Barnes. 

Songs like "I hit the wall" with its references to "I fought the law' is examples of the maturity of the band members as musicians and songwriters. Blues, jazz, swing, honky tonk, hard rock, rock n roll all  genres are infiltrated by Cold Chisel musical mastermind. The result is songs like 'Drive', 'Boundary street" songs so different , yet so similar as CC knows how to create the proper atmosphere to incorporate all of their influences to produce a solid rock(?) album. 

Cant think of a better soundtrack to accompany the recent Australia wildfires documentary, when someone in the future decide to tell the story.

7.5