{"id":17384,"date":"2021-12-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=17384"},"modified":"2021-12-13T18:38:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:38:21","slug":"dirtbag-republic-tear-down-your-idols-shock-records-vanity-music-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=17384","title":{"rendered":"Dirtbag Republic \u2013 \u2018Tear Down Your Idols\u2019 (Shock Records\/Vanity Music Group)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As retro-obsessed as I am, a proper throwback of an album would surely be a fine way to round off my reviewing duties for the year. That album? \u2018Tear Down Your Idols\u2019, the just-released new album from Canadian gutter rockers, Dirtbag Republic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Formed by singer Sandy Hazard and guitarist Mick Wood in 2014, \u2018Tear Down Your Idols\u2019 (titled in reference to both the tearing down of favourite bands that blow up big and heritage acts going through the motions on stage) is the Vancouver band\u2019s third album, following 2015\u2019s self-titled debut and 2017\u2019s \u2018Downtown Eastside\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Described in the press blurb as having definite Hanoi Rocks and Dead Boys influences, I\u2019d be lying if I said there wasn\u2019t more than a whiff of the former in the sonics ensconced in this eleven-track long player \u2013 \u2018Sorry\u2019 being a fine example. It\u2019s a much more harder-edged album, though \u2013 more of a street rock \u2018n\u2019 roll record that will appeal to fans of Backyard Babies (probably the clearest soundalike here) and Buckcherry. There\u2019s a mainlining of prime, pre-MTV Aerosmith here too. I\u2019m guessing that you\u2019ve already decided as to whether you\u2019re going to check this album out just because of the bands that I\u2019ve just mentioned? Well, here\u2019s another one: I couldn\u2019t help but be reminded of Helsinki scuzz rockers Hybrid Children when listening to \u2018Tear Down Your Idols\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The barroom piano on \u2018Don\u2019t Answer To No One\u2019 adds another classic rock \u2018n\u2019 roll element, elevating the track to the top of my \u2018must-play\u2019 list from this album. At the bottom? Throwback records often trawl up questionable lyrics and this one is no different: the \u201canorexia nervosa\u201d refrain in \u2018Skinny\u2019 is an eyebrow- rather than a fist-raiser that made even my headphones wince. The Manic Street Preachers\u2019 \u20184st 7lb\u2019 it is not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even though an idea that should never have made it past the rehearsal room does take the foot off the class, the band never takes it off the gas for the majority of the album; \u2018Tear Down Your Idols\u2019 could easily fill a space in your low-slung rock \u2018n\u2019 roll music collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Gaz Tidey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As retro-obsessed as I am, a proper throwback of an album would surely be a fine way to round off my reviewing duties for the year. That album? \u2018Tear Down Your Idols\u2019, the just-released new album from Canadian gutter rockers, Dirtbag Republic. Formed by singer Sandy Hazard and guitarist Mick Wood in 2014, \u2018Tear Down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2113,1710,1681],"class_list":["post-17384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-gaz-tidey","tag-rpm-online","tag-rpmnews1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17386,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384\/revisions\/17386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}