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(More customer reviews)It seems ZZ Top was done messing with sequencers and programmed "synthesized" drums by the time '94 rolled around. That's not to say this album is a total return to the sound that made up their earliest albums. No, because the production and song-writing on Antenna just won't allow for that. But having said that, it is the blusiest release by the boys since at least Deguello or perhaps even Tejas. Gibbons guitar tone is low-down and dirty, making one forget all about those glittering (Slide It In-era) Whitesnake-style riffs and solos that so generously filled Afterburner and occassionally still reared their commericial head on Recycler. Even the likes of "My Head's In Mississippi" from Recycler can't compete with the rejuvenated passion in the blues Gibbons had displayed throughout Antenna. "Breakaway" is the first real clue here that the boys mean business, and the spirit is maintained well thru "World of Swirl" and "Fuzzbox Voodoo." "PCH" begins with a devastatingly down and dirty Gibbons lick, and just forces the tried and true Top fan to crack a smile and leaves them ready for more. The upbeat tempos of the previous three outings are mostly maintained here, but at least it appears to the naked ear that Beard is actually rappin' on the skins once again.
Top seems destined to roll along with relative ease, changing their sound a bit here and there, while rolling up and taking back down bits of the future as well as the past in the process. At this point, they seem incapable of putting out an unenjoyable release. Just having some fun while poppin' the "Top" down and soakin' up the sun...
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