- Genre: 'Alt/Country'
- Release Date: '26th March 2026'
Our Rating:
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, with ‘The Lost Boys’ and ‘Young Guns’, Kiefer was cool. ‘24’ was epic. Well, at least the first season was. After that, it felt like the concept was being stretched out beyond necessity, although both viewers and critics were largely unified in their acclaim.
But with various arrests for assaults and drunk and disorderly incidents and a succession of failed relationships, often with women substantially younger, he was looking like another celebrity mess, and getting a bunch of tattoos and embarking on what was, to all intents and purposes, a musical vanity project was not cool, surely. Especially when that musical project was country music.
Yet here he is, on the brink of a tour of c.2000-capacity venues in the UK and beyond to promote his fourth album, prefaced buy the single ‘Simpler Time’.
It’s horrible. It’s an example of the worst kind of cheap barroom country, which lyrically is the ultimate summation of the old guy hankering after his youth pining. It may as well be called ‘Back in my day…’
It’s not clear if he’s playing these venues because people like the music – and they may, given that it’s mainstream easy listening Americana bilge – or simply because he’s famous and people will flock to see a famous person in the flesh. But objectively, this is not cool, musically or otherwise.
