Kane, Chez: Chez Kane

Let's have a swift look at the credits for the debut album by Welsh songstress Chez Kane shall we? Go on then...

Line-up:
Produced By : Danny Rexon
Executive Producer : Danny Rexon
Studio: Brick Wall Studio - Malmö
Recorded By: Danny Rexon
Mixed By: Danny Rexon
Mastered By: Erik MÃ¥rtensson - Blowout Productions
Band Members: Chez Kane

Quite a lot of Danny Rexon there I note. He's the main man in Swedish sleazers Crazy Lixx, a band which I have been able to resolutely dismiss as a bit ho and indeed hum. That is something which can not in any sense be thrown at this album which is absolutely brimming with Vixen-style 80s melodic rock. Says Mr. Rexon, “I’ve long felt that the contemporary melodic rock scene is missing an important piece of what I think made the genre, at least to some extent, so great in the late 80’s and early 90’s, and that is the quintessential female rocker. There are tons of bands in the melodic rock genre, but I feel like we’re missing that great female solo artist singing hard rock. A kind of Lee Aaron, Lita Ford, or Robin Beck for the new decade. So, the mission was clear to me from day one: Give the fans a female rocker that will remind them of the powerful rock anthems of the past.� Job very much done then as far as I'm concerned.

This album is a lovingly-crafted paean to the late 80s and early 90s and exists in a vacuum where grunge never existed - sadly it did. Shame. It isn't too much of a stretch to imagine songs such as "All Of It" being from a Lee Aaron record which is always a tremendous thing and the two singles "Rocket On The Radio" and "Too Late For Love" are total earworms which make the listener feel great about life. I would think that Mr. Rexon must have a laboratory in his basement where he cooked up these tunes but handing them over to Chez Kane was a masterstroke. At times the similarity to Vixen's Janet Gardner is eerie yet doesn't get anywhere near parody territory. "Defender Of The Heart" is is a mid-tempo winner underpinned by subtle keys and a splendidly aching vocal and has been on repeat in my mind for a couple of weeks now.

In truth, all the songs have a sense of familiarity but are all different from both each other and the obvious influences that the whole album is a melodic hard rock gem.

Track Listing:

1. Better Than Love
2. All Of It
3. Rocket On The Radio
4. Get It On
5. Too Late For Love
6. Defender Of The Heart
7. Ball N' Chain
8. Midnight Rendezvous
9. Die In The Name Of Love
10. Dead End Street

Added: March 24th 2021
Reviewer: Simon Bray
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