All Washed Up (2025)

"From the first riff, which hasn’t come to make small talk, Cheap Trick are plainly here to do what they do best. Punkily raucous but never losing control, these septuagenarians are still tapped into the motherlode of rock, 48 years since their debut. They’re still bright beasts who understand its essence: they know it, own it, like Parliament knew funk, like ABBA knew pop, like Hank knew country. If they’re less about straight lines than AC/DC, happy to allow the noise to spill outside its structures at times, they – and long-time producer Julian Raymond - are shrewd enough to know Route One still gets you there fastest. And so, still singing of wanting to touch you and be touched, of getting it on and whamming and booming and banging, 'Cheap Trick' stay eternally youthful, loyal servants of a genre which is lucky to have their priceless magic." (loudersound.com; 4 uit 5 sterren)

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