JAC DALTON ‘ICARUS’ (INDEPENDENT/AUSTRALIA IMPORT)
Review from STRUTTER’ZINE
“Now this is a very impressive record from the Australian singer/songwriter JAC DALTON. I believe it is his 2nd album so far and the included material on ‘Icarus’ is basically pure Classic Melodic Rock/AOR, with excellent guitarwork of GRAHAM GREENE. Graham used to be in the AOR band ICE TIGER, of whom we reviewed their excellent one-off release on LONG ISLAND RECORDS about 20 years ago (!). Jac is a great singer, with a typical Aussie way of singing, like a cross between PAUL RODGERS, JIMMY BARNES, DAVID COVERDALE and PAUL SHORTINO, so sounding raw and bluesy. Especially the first 2 songs are really great AOR/Melodic Rocksongs, “Waterline” and the superb “For your love” that even reminds me a bit of the legendary Aussie band AVION (remember them?). Other highlights are the lovely catchy uptempo Melodic Rockers “Good to go” and “State of Rock” and the priggish semi melodic rockballad “Icarus”. There’s also room for some typical VAN HALEN meets AC/DCish straight-ahead ballsy Hardrock (“Armed and dangerous”,”Suck bang blow” and the AC/DC cover “Back in black”) and a SHAKRA/GOTTHARDish tune (“Locked cocked and ready to rock”) that should go down very well live on stage I guess. Somehow the overall sound on this album does also remind me of ROUGH CUTT, whom also delivered a mix of Classic 80s American Heavy Rock, some Rock and Roll, a touch of Bluesy Hardrock and a couple AOR/Melodic Hardrocksongs, but you might as well fill in HEAVEN’S EDGE, VON GROOVE or XYZ here. Without a doubt, a high quality recording and very much recommended to fans of mentioned bands and in particular the fans of good clean Melodic Hardrock.”
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