Producers: Ace Frehley
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AllMusic · 3.0 / 5 · · 2026-07-26 15:20:14
MiskamNiretet · 4.0 / 5 · · 2024-08-01 21:59:59
EveryDisc · 4.0 / 5 · · 2018-10-24 10:32:49
Why has Kiss been silent for 6 years now? How are they silent! Receive a new album by Ace Frehley. Moreover, a regular one, unlike his former partners from one of the most popular groups in the world. Ace wrote the opening "Without you I'm nothing" in co-authorship with Gene Simmons, who also played bass. How is this not Kiss to you? The song would fit both in melody and sound to any record of the 70s of the legendary hard rock group. Frehley has not been in Kiss for 16 years, but still, he does not deviate a step from successful proven schemes, even in terms of dirt in the recording. He still exploits his space image and writes simple rock anthems ("Rockin' with the boys"), even if the guys are already well over 60, but without knowing when the "Spaceman" record was released, you would never say so. It is gratifying that for guitar solos on his own albums, no Classic rock will call Frehley a bad guitarist. Still, in Kiss, Stanley and Simmons did not let him turn around to the fullest. Even if Ace is not some super-fast technician, you cannot take away his recognizability and technique. The album is brief and in this regard also does not fit into the trends of the current era, when it is customary to inflate discs to indecency. "Your wish is my command" is the most sexy Kiss juice. "Bronx boy" does not hit in the eyebrow, but in the eye. Ace is still simple and rock-n-roll. "Mission to Mars" is full of primitive but bright riffs. "Off my back" is even melodic. The only thing is, I never understood the meaning of Frehley's instrumentals, few people have them turn out to be more pointless. Result: this is a Kiss album from the 70s without the hit quality of Stanley-Simmons, but with true New York rock-n-roll. Frehley did not let us down again. The most underrated member of Kiss.
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