Robbie Thunder If Rock & Roll is Dead… So is Robbie Thunder cassette
Lo-fi, drum-machine-driven Australian synth punk. This is the seventh album by Newcastle-based ROBBIE THUNDER, and like each of the six albums before it, it is ten songs of non-stop bopping and rocking recorded on a Tascam four-track. With songwriting as catchy as their synth is warbling, ROBBIE THUNDER seems to care about one thing and one thing only….rocking. This is pretty damn evident with album titles such as Rock N Roll Does It Again and Houston, We Have Rock. If Rock & Roll is Dead… does not veer in the slightest from the path that ROBBIE THUNDER has laid out with his previous output. Perhaps that sounds like a bad thing, and sure, maybe that’s already 70 recorded songs in just a few short years, but I for one find this commitment to lo-fi, dingy, poppy rock’n’roll refreshing and commendable. I personally cannot wait to hear the next album, which will surely be titled something along the lines of All Roads Lead to Rock or some other predictable nonsense, which will undeniably continue all the way to ROBBIE’s eventual washed-up finale album Full Speed to Rock Bottom.