Review Summary: So if you thought that these guys were only videos on MTV and they only represented nostalgic sounds, the eccentricity of the 80's or you have not given them an opportunity yet, "Karma" is enough reason and a good starting point to change your mind.
Due to the resurgence in popularity and the return of bands of hard rock / hair metal / pop metal of the 80's like Europe, White Lion, Ratt among others in the 21st century after being displaced by grunge in the early 90's Andy having returned in 2006 with the controversial "IV", Winger reappears in the music scene with "Karma".
Led by the hand of Kip Winger, guitar hero Reb Beach and an experienced Rod Morgenstein and John Roth, the album starts at full speed with the impetuous "Deal With the Devil" and Stone Cold Killer "of sharp guitars and accelerated rhythms showing a more aggressive and direct side of the Pull line. With heavy riffs of progressive tints duly adjusted to an excellent vocal work of Kip (with a mature voice curiously similar to David Coverdale) is "Big World Away", which opens the way to the dense "Come a Little Closer" that winks at the metal of the 90's, followed by the beautiful "Always Within Me" that recalls cuts from the beginning of his career as "Under One Condition".
On the half of the album that shows a fresh and contemporary production, the couple Beach / Roth up the pace again with "Pull Me Under", composed of a set of excellent riffs and guitar solos played with strength and heaviness, supported by the exquisite seal melodic characteristic of the house. Of slower time, "Supernova" gives us a passionate and intense interpretation by the quartet, while the rocker "Feeding Frenzy" shows Morgenstein doing what he does best.
The blues-rock "After All This Time" of melancholic air and the majestic "Witness", (basically an amalgam of sensitivity, talent and inspiration and with a Reb Beach exhibiting mastery in what is perhaps the best guitar solo of his career), they demonstrate the maturity and musical excellence of the Americans closing the album in an impressive way.
Resurrection for a great band that in spite of the bad reputation (gained partly unjustly by the ridiculousness of Beavies and Butthead and also the aspect of Kip Winger's extravagant teen idol, the clichés and the silly lyrics of songs like Seventeen) has been claimed and become a well-deserved place in the rock world.
So if you thought that these guys were only videos on MTV and they only represented nostalgic sounds, the eccentricity of the 80's or you have not given them an opportunity yet, "Karma" is enough reason and a good starting point to change your mind.
Track picks: "Deal With The Devil", Big World Away", "Pull Me Under" and "Witness".
