They're back! A decade on from their last album, ‘Sin-Sational’, the Sabrejets have just unleashed another high-octane long-player of timeless rock'n'roll. Featuring fifteen foot-stomping tracks, 'The Restless Kind' is greaser heaven from start to finish.
‘The Restless Kind’ is in many ways an appropriate title for the band as well as the album.` Core members Brian Young (ex Rudi) on guitar and lead vocals, Liam Killen on guitar and vocals, and “Wild” Bill Johnston on bass have been together for a quarter of a century and show no sign of picking up their pensions anytime soon. Joining the rock’n’roll veterans on this long-player is the newest Sabrejets member Lou Steele on drums and vocals.
Songwriting duties on the album are shared between Young and Killen. The subject matter is classic old-school greaser rock. ‘Hell Yeah’ and ‘Storm In A ‘d’ Cup’ are riddled with sexual innuendo, inappropriate situations and puns, yet never condescend their characters. ‘Faster Than The Eye Can See’ is a driving epic featuring guns, booze, and fast cars while ‘Zorita’ pays tribute to the famous burlesque dancer.
The music throughout is tight and perfectly executed with energetic abandon as guitars twang and riff out blazing solos alongside pounding drums and buoyant bass. The Killen-penned instrumental ‘Lightnin’, the Western-inspired ‘Train To Hell’, and the deceptively upbeat ‘Don’t Turn Your Back On Love’ could sit easily on the soundtrack of a Tarantino movie.
The twelve original songs on the album are rounded out by three cover versions including standout versions of the Willie Cobbs blues classic ‘You Don’t Love Me’ and Nigel Dixon’s ‘Someone’s On The Loose’. Both transformed into rockabilly stompers by the frantic Sabrejets treatment.
With subject material that harkens back to the silver age of cinema and black and white movies about fast cars, alcohol, women, and motorcycles, ‘The Restless Kind’ delivers entertainment in glorious technicolor with rip-roaring music and style.
‘The Restless Kind’ is available now via Raucous Records.