{"id":25862,"date":"2025-01-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=25862"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T23:03:48","slug":"prophets-of-addiction-face-the-musicbravewords-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=25862","title":{"rendered":"Prophets Of Addiction – ‘Face The Music'(Bravewords Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frontman Lesli Sanders put the band together in 2010 after finding sobriety, which he attributes to, \u201cIt was time for a change, time to get back to being me, time to make music, Time to make those people who cared proud, time to put a smile back on my<\/em> face.\u201d  The band released their debut effort, \u2018Babylon Boulevard\u2019 via Cargo Records UK the following year. but it’s taken him to the tail end of 2024 to find where he’s really at and deliver the album of his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to 2024 and Sanders is back in the saddle and has his Prophets Of Addiction ready cocked and loaded. Kicking things off with \u2018Flavor of the Danger\u2019 is a more gentle less bombastic opener but the familiar raspy vocals are present and correct and the tone is set for the brand new album. They\u2019re not reinventing the wheel here just rolling with it and drawing on a lifetime’s worth of tales and musical influences \u2013 having said that its mainly the 70s glam rockers and the offshoots that are the bass of the music with a darker edge coming to the front on \u2018Let\u2019s Get High\u2019.  That darker softer edge continues through the reflective \u2018Slipping Away\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band turn up the amps <\/span>on \u2018Walk The World\u2019 with a really good production giving the overall big studio feel with the guitars cutting through a strong melody. Halfway through the album, we\u2019re met with a sped up take on the Rod Stewart classic \u2018Maggie May\u2019 now there\u2019s nothing wrong with the cover, the playing is on point but I do wonder why? Sure it\u2019s a great song been covered to death but not quite sure it fits in here and besides I\u2019d have preferred to hear another original song but maybe it\u2019s just me here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onwards and upwards \u2018Superhero\u2019 is up next and a summery rocker with a nod to being a commercial hit the song builds well to the chorus and when it reaches the solo it sort of collides well all around with a top arrangement making for an all-round top tune. The songs keep flowing and the level of quality is high making it the best record Lesli has made thus far in his career. The gritty \u2018I Want You To Know\u2019 then followed by the smooth \u2018Hollywood\u2019 delving back in time to a laid-back Dogs\u2019D\u2019Amour feel and again maintaining the great songwriting and all-round production values that tap into the groove of the song and complement it really well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be fair on repeated plays this record gets stronger as it goes and the last few songs are possibly the strongest on offer sounding like the lyrics are Lesli wearing his heart on his sleeve and coming across as authentic and just in love with rock n roll and that\u2019s always a great place to be. This is a record the band should be proud of stacked with honest rockers n chart toppers Prophets of Addiction might not get to stadium-filling levels but they delivered a really strong album that\u2019s true and honest and well good. Never mind taking me to your leader just take me to the bar where these cats are paying and I\u2019ll have the best damn time rockin out. Check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Frontman Lesli Sanders put the band together in 2010 after finding sobriety, which he attributes to, \u201cIt was time for a change, time to get back to being me, time to make music, Time to make those people who cared proud, time to put a smile back on my face.\u201d  The band released their debut […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-25862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-prophets-of-addiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25862","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=25862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25878,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25862\/revisions\/25878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}