Motörhead
Aftershock

Motörhead is often criticized for allegedly releasing similar albums every two years, but this time even the most stubborn listeners will not deny that Motörhead of 2013 is very different from its predecessor - the gleaming modern "steel" sound and radiating pathos of "The Wörld Is Yours". Yes, indeed, "Aftershock" differs from it primarily in its sound. I will assume that this time Lemmy decided to return to the origins of Motörhead, and to the very beginning of the story. However, not at all to the hyped album "Overkill", as one might think, but namely to the zero point, the origin of coordinates - to the first two albums "On Parole" and "Motörhead", unloved by many, even devoted, fans. The material of "Aftershock" is very reminiscent of the sound of those first "pancakes always come out lumpy": an unusually dirty, almost lo-fi sound and deliberate simplicity of the compositions. I think that "Aftershock" could have come out as the third issue in 1978. How do you like this move by Lemmy Kilmister? Agree that there are not so many bands left whose members can boast that they are able to turn back time and find themselves not in 2013, but in 1976 or 1977... Motörhead, like Black Sabbath, can afford to saddle this, and such material will be listened to completely naturally and naturally, as if in those distant seventies. Traditionally, Lemmy writes an album as if in two guises: at the same time a bluesman "Doctor Rock", the last rock and roller, and at the same time the founding father of extreme music. This album, as always, contains rock-n-roll material and even blues, and there are so-called "proto-trash" action songs. The lyrical and sad "Lost Woman Blues" is probably the apotheosis of the other side of Lemmy's life, which concerns his principled position on family: never to marry. Well, and of the action songs, I liked "End of Time" and "Death Machine" the most - the only, perhaps, reference to modern times, which simultaneously resembles the material of "Bastards" and "Kiss of Death", possessing an intricate structure and minor melody. However, the darkest composition on the album is "Silence When You Speak To Me". A terrible story about fatigue from oneself, about the desire for oblivion and silence. About such a state, when death seems to be the best friend and liberator from oppressive reality.