{"id":4815,"date":"2019-04-05T05:47:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T05:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2019-04-05T07:24:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T07:24:25","slug":"giuda-e-v-a-rise-above-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=4815","title":{"rendered":"Giuda – \u2018E.V.A\u2019 (Rise Above Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Four years on from the band\u2019s amazing \u2018Speaks Evil\u2019 album and Italian glam punks Giuda have produced perhaps one of their most surprising career moves to date, by signing with the UK doom metal label, Rise Above Records for the release of their fourth album \u2018E.V.A\u2019.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m certainly not knocking it, as I have a lot of time and respect for Lee Dorrian and his label having produced some superb doom releases over their 30 years in the business. It\u2019s just Giuda\u2026alongside the likes of Church Of Misery, Uncle Acid and Witchsorrow, I mean c\u2019mon c\u2019mon, do they really don\u2019t wanna be in this gang?<\/p>\n

In saying this though I do get that Rival Sons, Blackberry Smoke and The Temperance Movement signing for Earache didn\u2019t exactly do them any harm career-wise, and seeing that Giuda will also have the recently signed Danko Jones alongside as label mates it does all kind of stack up, and as long as they continue to pen the feel-good anthems we have all goto love them for then\u2026who cares?<\/p>\n

\u2018E.V.A\u2019 then picks up exactly where \u2018Speaks Evil\u2019 left off with \u2018Overdrive\u2019 the band\u2019s first single from the album, cruising along on a throbbing \u201870s AC\/DC rhythm complete with a glam rock hook that should have all the young Droogs screaming along at the tops of their voices when the band take the album on the road. This really is the sound of Giuda at the very top of their game.<\/p>\n

\u2018Space Walk\u2019 is the first of three glam slammers (the others \u2018Space Go\u2019 and \u2018Ravers Rock\u2019) on \u2018E.V.A\u2019 that harks back to the semi-instrumental highlights of \u2018Racey Roller\u2019 albeit here they have a touch of Space Ace sci-fi flair (rather than turned up denim flares)\u00a0 just to be added to the cool factor.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere \u2018Interplanetary Craft\u2019 has more than a hint of late \u201970s Who about it, resonating on an almost New Romantic melody line that sees Ntenda and the boys adding yet another new influence to their musical melting pot sound. This influence doesn\u2019t end here either as my favourite track on the album \u2018Cosmic Love\u2019 could very well have been an outtake from the first Duran Duran album, yes it really is that good.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure the band\u2019s fan base will be open-minded enough to accept the band moving to a more \u201880s influence sound as the New Romantic scene wasn\u2019t really such a seismic leap away from \u201870s glam was it?<\/p>\n

Of course there are still plenty of the band\u2019s trademark glamthems on \u2018E.V.A\u2019 and the pretty vacant \u2018I\u2019ve Had Enough\u2019, \u2018No Place To Hide\u2019, \u2018You\u2019ve Got The Power\u2019 and \u2018Junk\u2019 are all going to get you tucking your thumbs in your belt loopholes pretty damn sharpish, trust me.<\/p>\n

With their trademark ten songs and thirty three minutes of music designed to confuse and enthuse in equal amounts, \u2018E.V.A\u2019 – just like with \u2018Speaks Evil\u2019 – demands repeat plays to fully get the tunes embedded in your cranium, but once they are in there really is no escaping them.<\/p>\n

Oh, and before I forget one of the real bonuses of the band signing for Rise Above Records is that Giuda vinyl collecting nerds everywhere should be in seventh heaven (or should that be hell) with all the different pressings released on April 5th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Go on\u2026fill your (stackheel) boots.<\/p>\n

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Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n