THUNDER – WONDER DAYS
FOR a band who said they were packing it in some years ago, Thunder have been remarkably busy. The English hard rockers’ last studio album, Bang!, may have been back in 2008 but it hasn’t stopped the quintet performing live.
There was The Union in between but now, here, Danny Bowes, Luke Morley, Gary ‘Harry’ James, Ben Matthews and Chris Childs are back with a new album of original material.
As before, the band’s stock-in-trade hard rock is well in evidence but tempered with blues and a fine ear for melody.
Danny’s voice is still top in the genre and the songwriting is up there with the best. With its sharp production, Thunder’s tenth album rocks along, fresh but still in the classic rock mould, showing us how it’s done.
8/10 – STEVE GRANTHAM
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