Roll With The Punches (2025)

""Roll With The Punches" is his sixteenth album and the first on his own label, and he’s been churning them out at an astonishingly reliable rate since 1980. From the opening title track, with its nod to "Proud Mary", the rhymes are cheerfully, clangingly, unapologetically obvious. There are bluesy breakdowns and, in "Two Arms To Hold You", the mandatory erection-section romantic waltz. There’s a sweet, cards-on-the-table, pro-choice, anti-war message in the gentle, squishy ballad "Life Is Beautiful", and a Bon Jovi-esque portrait of a soldier writing home in the peacenik, harmonica-flecked "Love Is Stronger Than Hate". Most surprisingly, "Never Ever Let You Go" suggests he’s been listening to some of the HIM back catalogue, taking notes, and cleaning it up for his own audience. For a man now bang into his mid-60s, there’s still something oddly teenage about Bryan Adams – for much of "Roll With The Punches" he sounds like he’s in his first flush of love." (Classic Rock; 3,5 uit 5 sterren)

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