Album Review: Gun - Favourite Pleasures

Many might remember the group Gun for their cover of the Cameo track, Word Up, but the group had other hits too such as Better Days.

Now in 2017 the Glaswegian band release their 7th studio album, Favourite Pleasures. In reality they have come back with some of the best songs of their career.

They really shouldn't sound this good so far into their career. They sound reinvigorated, fresh, hungry and on a roll. They say they recorded the album with a back to basics approach at their Morse Code studios in Paisley.

Each track is built on a great guitar riff followed by a big bold and brassy chorus wrapped around a melodic tune.

She Knows starts off the album. Iit could be the cousin to Billy Idol's hit, White Wedding, the track is typical of what follows: unashamed melodic rock with a melody that sticks in your head.

Here's Where I Am is a big bold glam rock influenced track, whilst Favourite Pleasures, the title track of the album has a guitar riff that is influenced by the Stevie Wonder hit, Superstitious.

Mind you, the subject matter of the track is inspired by a friend of the band and what he would get up to whilst on tour with the band in Amsterdam and Holland.

The Clash influence comes to the fore on Silent Lovers with a riff that is influenced by London Calling.

Tragic Heroes could be the next single off the album with the commercial chorus demanding to be blasting out of car radios this autumn.

The album closes with The Boy Who Fooled The World. The lyric recalls when in their early youth they would listen to the Friday night rock show on Radio 1.

A delicate ballad it concludes an album that is up there with the best rock albums released this year.

4 out of 5