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\"\"<\/a>Beat City Tubeworks have gone and recorded the long lost follow up the Paul Stanley’s\u00a0 ’78 solo album. I shit you not \u2026..<\/p>\n

No sooner has album opener \u201cRoad Runner\u201d kicked in, a voice from the back seat of the car says \u201ccool album daddy,\u201d and kids know best.<\/p>\n

We’ve got Slade, we’ve got Mud and we’ve even got a bit of Quo….. and okay there’s a little bit of Hellacopters in there too. In fact, Beat City Tubeworks may have succeeded where Nicke Andersson didn’t quite hit the spot in melding the sounds of Hellacopters and KISS together with his own currently dormant quartet, Imperial State Electric ( ooohh did I say that out loud?).<\/p>\n

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Next up is the lead video track for the album, \u201cSuccumbs\u201d and it’s classic KISS. \u201cIvory Wave\u201d is a little more British glitter, with more lead guitar than you could shake two sticks at. This is rock\u201dn\u201d roll and I like it. Love it. Like it. Love it.<\/p>\n

\u201cFading to Grey\u201d is probably the most ‘copters track on offer here tonight but with enough swagger to hold it head up high.<\/p>\n

Paul Stanley would suck the chrome off bed knobs to get hold of tunes like \u201cEstranged\u201d and \u201cArchaic Approach\u201d. I tell you people, \u201cTop Rock\u201d is so good that continued listening demands wank breaks. Too much???<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Joke’s On You\u201d is glam rock perfection, like the bastard son of Paul Stanley and Noddy Holder. It’s so jam-packed with energetic 70’s glamtastic rock’n’roll and super sleazy garage rocky-ness that it demands to be played at every party, pub and club the world over.<\/p>\n

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While \u201cIdiot Savant\u201d has a little bit of a laid back groove, \u201cTake Two Of These And Call Me In The Morning\u201d is another tribute to early KISS and all the other cool records of the early 70’s that you nicked of your older brother and cool uncle.<\/p>\n

Okay, we’ve come to the end of the show and Beat City Tubeworks play us out the door with the fast and furious \u201c80’s Forest Treasure = Hands Of Sin\u201d. Top marks, 10 out of 10. Gold star.<\/p>\n

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The \u201cTop Rock\u201d is available from the band’s Band Camp page at the bargain price of 199 SEK (or 21 Yankee dollars or even 16 quid to you and me) but the shipping from Sweden is a little eye-watering at about the same money on top again to us non-Swedes. But don’t despair, demand that the band play your town and pick it up at their merch stand.<\/p>\n

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Spend big and buy both \u201cTop Rock\u201d and the band’s debut LP \u201cI Cannot Believe Its the Incredible…Beat City Tubeworks\u201d at the same time or just download it for a small fee like the cool kids do. Just get hold of it somehow and make your world a better place, at least in 30-minute chunks.<\/p>\n

Is January too early to declare the winner of the album of the year?<\/p>\n

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Author: Fraser Munro<\/p>\n

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