Think Mötley Crüe style shenanigans and you’ll be getting close to what the Rush are all about.

Young Swedish Female-Fronted Melodic Rockers Adrenaline Rush have really started life with a musical bang. Their debut album is full on, unapologetic, late eighties inspired, energetic Melodic Rock, with a touch of Sleaze and Glam that Mötley Crüe would be proud of! The album was written by Erik Martensson of Eclipse and W.E.T. fame, his involvement is obvious, but essentially though he has detached himself well from his other bands and written with a specific style and attitude in mind, and for me does a grand job. Whilst his touch is there, he has crafted a damn fine collection of sleazy, carefree, no frills, rebellious Rock ‘n’ Roll and if you’re a fan of Martensson’s song-writing talents, I see absolutely no reason at all as to why you wouldn’t enjoy this.

Front-woman Tave Wanning fully emboldens the vocal persona of a “Rebellious Rocker” in her performances and I really enjoy her style and attitude. She has an exuberant nature and has the potential to be a rambunctious and highly entertaining live performer and with this collection of songs, she has plenty of crowd pleasing, sing along choruses in her arsenal. She may not have the range of other female vocalists like Issa or Lenna Kuurmaa, (which isn’t needed on these songs anyway) but I love Wanning’s attitude-dripping vocals and she just exudes Rock ‘n’ Roll rebellion.

Adrenaline Rush have a big guitar sound but they always have plenty of melodic hooks in them and killer melodious riffs are thrown at us frequently to a back drop of driven guitar progressions that give all those songs that energy and attitude needed. There is some truly awesome guitar work on here, not fastest finger bollocks, just good old melodic riffs that got stuck in your head just as much as the big choruses.

There is lots of “party-time” Rock that will have you cranking the volume on your stereo in the likes of the rambunctious rocker ‘Change’, ballsy rebellious Rocker ‘Generation Left Behind’, Mötley Crüe inspired ‘Girls Gone Wild’ and the fist in the air, shout it out loud attitude of ‘Oh Yeah!’ There is some more straight-edged Melodic Rock tracks in the Gotthard like ‘Want It All’ and bright and soaring ‘Too Young To Die’ which not only add some light and shade to the album flow, but also a big dollop of uplifting feel good ambience.

What the songs may lack in emotion and depth is sure made up for with fist in the air inducing, shout it out loud choruses and sheer feel good awesomeness. Think Mötley Crüe style shenanigans and you’ll be getting close to what the Rush are all about.

Paul Woodward