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Spinefarm Records/Caroline Australia
25th October, 2019
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Saviours Of Rock N' Roll

Airbourne have become an Australian rock institution.

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Since exploding onto the scene with debut Runnin’ Wild the band has had to deal with incessant comparisons to AC/DC in terms of musical presence, but as frontman and guitarist Joel O’Keeffe once stated in an interview, you can’t help but sound like who you sound like.



Over four previous albums, the boys from Warrnambool have delivered slab after high octane slab of rock n roll debauchery, with a dual-edged guitar assault courtesy of Joel and Matthew Harrison launching a multitude of instant classics that are guaranteed to get your heart racing and your hips shaking.

Airbourne live and breath rock music and with over 1000 live shows to their credit have injected themselves into the frontline of the finest this country has produced. With new album Boneshaker Airbourne have served up another meat and potatoes take on their beloved genre, following their now sacred formula of no ballads, no acoustic guitars and no keyboards.

If you think rock n roll is dying in this country, spend half an hour with this album through your speakers and your doubts will be cast aside.

Here is a band who considers the current trend of ‘evolving’ musically a cardinal sin, and instead choose to play to their strengths which is balls to the wall, take-no-prisoners Aussie rock.

To be released with a spoiler alert of ‘it’s a real fucken rock n roll record’, Boneshaker is ten songs and thirty minutes of tunes that do precisely as the title suggests. Opening with the title track which starts off almost subdued in comparison to their full sound, the guitars and Joel’s trademark vocals soon kick in and with them any slight niggles that may be weighing down your sub-conscious.

Burnout the Nitro fires out of the blocks with trademark twin guitars before morphing into a straight-out party track, while the dirty rock of This Is Our City is perhaps as mild as Airbourne will ever go while still maintaining their rock ethos. She Gives Me Hell, which relates a tale familiar to many males on the wrong side of a bad relationship, and Switchblade Angel are among the highlights, but it is the beautifully powerful Weapon of War which is dedicated to returning servicemen that gives hint to the true passion and bonds of brotherhood reflected by the band.

Album closer Rock ‘n’ Roll For Life could well be anointed the new national anthem for disenfranchised youth, with a blistering guitar display that highlights one of Airbourne’s many strengths.

Surprisingly recorded with Nashville’s number one producer Dave Cobb, whose credits include Chris Stapleton and the Star Is Born soundtrack, Boneshaker has managed to capture that live album feel that has eluded so many in the past.

If you think rock n roll is dying in this country, spend half an hour with this album through your speakers and your doubts will be cast aside.

Airbourne are the saviours of rock n roll—not that it ever really needed saving.

STANDOUT TRACKS: Rock ‘n’ Roll For Life, She Gives Me Hell, Boneshaker
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