Label: Frontiers Music
Genre: Hard Rock
Release Date EU: October 14th, 2022
Links: https://www.facebook.com/Orianthi/
Line Up:
Orianthi Panagaris – Vocals, Guitars
Jacob Bunton – Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Violin, Backing Vocals
Kyle Cunningham – Drums
Tracklist:
Illuminate (Part I)
Light It Up
Fire Together
Where Did Your Heart Go
Red Light
Void
Burning
Living Is Like Dying Without You
Witches & The Devil
Getting To Me
Illuminate (Part Ii)
Not least due to her time in the live band of rock icon Alice Cooper, Orianthi Panagaris has built up an excellent reputation as a guitarist. In addition, the guitarist from Adelaide, Australia released a whole series of solo albums of which ‘O’ in 2020 is the most recent.
These days, a follow-up, ‘Rock Candy’, hits the record stores. Orianthi shows on the newest release that she is both, an outstanding guitarist and has great songwriting talent. Together with Jacob Bunton and Kyle Cunningham, the guitarist has recorded an album that covers the full range of modern hard rock.
Represented are emotional outbursts like ‘Where Did Your Heart Go’, a rich half-ballad with plenty of goosebump moments. The heavier and rocking aspects come in nicely on songs like the roaring ‘Light It Up’, the throbbing ‘Void’, and the driving ‘Getting To Me’. The dark side appears in the intense and bluesy ‘Witches & the Devil’. In addition, the album contains ‘Red Light’ a varied song that jumps back and forth between a wild bridge, great chorus, and laid-back verse.
In summary, it can be said that Orianthi has once again delivered an album of the extra class. Not only every note is spot on. Rather, it is the good sense of the great melody lines which makes this album a very listenable treat.
‘Rock Candy’, that’s delicious ear candy.
Written by: Markus Wiedenmann
Rating 8/10
- Guitars
- Blues
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