Diesel’s first studio album in five years starts out promising with three catchy tracks that deliver his trademark irresistible bluesy pop-rock in spades.
The catchy opening track “Money Maker” is built around a stripped-down guitar riff, the swampy Louisiana banjo blues of “By Your Throne” builds up the pace and the bluesy lead riff of “One Phone Call” is signature Diesel.
It sounds like great things are happening here since the singer is always at his best when he steers clear from the middle of the road.
But then the country-ballad “Cupid’s Embrace” rears it’s ugly head sounding like a Keith Urban-leftover and has no place on a Diesel record, neither does the bland-at-best Tim Chaisson collaboration “Last Shower”.
Luckily the Perth singer redeems himself straight away with the great title track and the stand-out “Sound Of Guitar”, a song with great hit potential.
“The Miles” is still a nice effort but aside from that the B-side of this album is not really up to the rocker’s usually high standards.
An EP with the five stand-out tracks might have been a more satisfying release than this twelve track album.
Nonetheless, it is an exciting prospect that Diesel will be touring Let It Fly nationwide from October. On stage this gifted artist consistently proves he is one of this nation’s greatest musical treasures and therefore any excuse for a new tour is still more than welcome.
