09.07.2012.

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SWEET - New York Connection (2012)

With worldwide album sales of more than 55 million copies, SWEET have notched 34 Number One smashes across the globe as part of a run of timeless hits that includes ‘Blockbuster!’, ‘Hell Raiser’, ‘The Ballroom Blitz’, ‘The Six Teens’, ‘Action’, ‘Fox On The Run’ and ‘Love Is Like Oxygen’. Seen on Top Of The Pops on what felt like a weekly basis throughout the 1970s, their über-harmonious, multi-tracked guitar work and layered production was to provide inspiration to other acts such as Queen, the Electric Light Orchestra and, in later decades, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe and The Darkness.

Now comes ‘New York Connection’. Recorded by original member Andy Scott (guitar and vocals) and his current line-up of Pete Lincoln (lead vocals and bass guitar), Tony O’Hora (guitar, keyboards and vocals) and Bruce Bisland (drums and vocals), the new album is a selection of material originally penned by other artists awarded the band’s instantly recognizable thumb-print. So it’s a boring covers album, then? Well, no. Not really. This time there’s a bit of a twist.

TRACKS: 01. New York Groove (written by Russ Ballard) 02. Gold On The Ceilings (The Black Keys) 03. It’s All Moving Faster (Electric Frankenstein) 04. New York Connection (originally the B-side of Sweet’s ‘Wig Wam Bam’) 05. Shapes Of Things (The Yardbirds) 06. You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record) (Dead Or Alive) 07. Because The Night (Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith) 08. Sweet Jane (The Velvet Underground) 09. Blitzkrieg Bop (The Ramones) 10. On Broadway (written by a team including Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller) 11. Join Together (The Who)