Ok, so contemporary rock isn’t my main field, but I keep my war to the ground enough to know what’s out there and who sounds like what. Nottingham quartet Patriot Rebel cite Stone temple Pilots (since when did they get popular again?), Shinedown, Black Stone Cherry and Velvet Revolver as their influences and touchstone acts. Thankfully, they’re better than Velvet Revolver, but mostly come on like G’n’R with nods to the stadium-friendly rock of Bon Jovi and the big choruses of Def Leppard.
The lighter-waving rock anthem ‘Goodbye’ is terribly standard, and with lyrics like ‘there’s an arrow in my soul / it’s breaking me in two’ it’s as likely to evoke tears of mirth as tears of emotion amongst more cynical listeners.
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But in fairness, they do a fair line in accessible rock, and while they do pack in hooks and catchy choruses, they’re not limp, emo angstmongers, but purveyors or real old-school rock, mercifully minus the spandex and perms. And that’s something to be grateful for.
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