“Burn the Bridges,” the first of four singles slated for release this year from Brighton’s Sansom, reminds us that, despite what people say, rock and roll is still more than fit for purpose. As journalists (not me, but perhaps other lesser beings) prematurely announce the death of guitar music, admittedly something they have been doing every two years since 1982, artists like this defend the genre merely through the deftness of their songwriting.
Part classic rock groove, part old-school rock and roll, part alt-rock moves for the modern age, “Burn The Bridges” shows that guitar music is not dead. Anything but. On a good day, it can eat the competition for breakfast. And this is a good day—a very good day indeed.
Groove-heavy and shot through scintillating sonics, brooding energy, raw guitar lines, unfussy but brilliantly functional beats, and vocals that perfectly push a suitably world-weary sound, this is the classic rock sound brought up to date. Fans of the Foo’s anthemic accessibility or Queen of the Stone Age’s blend of abrasion and melody will love everything about this.
Sixty percent rock tradition, thirty percent alternative abrasiveness, and twenty percent incendiary infectiousness, not to mention at least eighteen percent an ability to be unaffected by the constraints of mathematics; it’s the sound of rock and roll being polished up, pushed on, and given new propulsion and purpose in the modern age.
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