LINDA & THE PUNCH — Obsession (review)

LINDA & THE PUNCH — Obsession album cover Album · 2014 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Kev Rowland
This is the debut album from Linda and her band, no surname in the press details but it states a few time that she is only 21 so that is obviously more important. Musically they describe this as Pet Benatar meets Pink, and if we added Avril Lavigne into that then I would probably agree. This is all about melodic hard rock /AOR with hooks all over the place, and the feeling that we are back in the Eighties when big hair and big songs wer the rage. For a debut, it is interesting to see that some big players have been involved with this, as it was produced by ´Michael Voss´ (Michael Schenker, Udo Lindenberg, etc) while the writers include Jeff Franzel (Taylor Dayne, NSync, Chuck Wicks), Steve McEwan (Robbie Willams, Foreigner, Eminem, James Blunt, Roger Daltrey), Herman Rarebell (Scorpions) and Tommy Denander (Paul Stanley, Swedish Teen Idol).

This is hard rock for the radio, and although I enjoyed it I couldn’t help but feel that this seemed just too false and created for me, almost as if this was something that was put together for a purpose as opposed to something created from the ground up. The closing number is “Because The Night”, which has been turned into a hard rock anthem with none of the angst and passion of the original – I know which I prefer. All that being said, I am sure we are going to hear more about this band. www.escape-music.com

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