Wow, Just Wow! New Johnny Foreigner Choons!

Great news folks! Brummie noisemakers Johnny Foreigner have released three new, well almost new, tunes today in anticipation for their forthcoming album Grace And The Bigger Picture, which is out in October.
Everyone should have heard the lightning speed Feels Like Summer already and alot of you will have Camp Kelly Camp, mainly because I posted it on funfunfun about a month ago, But Wow, Just Wow is brand new to me.
It sounds like many other Johnny Foreigner tracks. Lots of yelping vocals,driving rhythms and guitar strings pulverised and pinged all over the fretboard in a gale of crunchiness, but there's something a bit different. The band sound a bit down. There's a melancholy and a loneliness that wasn't apparent on Waited Up Til It Was Light. The trio seemed to have grown since then, wearied by the road maybe, and if they find the right mix between this sadness and their usual frantic euphoria then I can't wait for October to roll around.

Johnny Foreigner - Wow, Just Wow

You can get the two other tracks from the JoFo website

Johnny Foreigner @ Flowerpot

As I'm working on the next issue of the, seemingly annual, funfunfun zine, I don't have much time to scribe a detailed review of Johnny Foreigner's performance at Flowerpot. I'll just say that it was cochlea-crunching loud - my ears weren't the same for a good few days after -, the new tracks sound amazing and I still get mesmerized by Alexei's guitar playing, I couldn't take my eyes of his fretboard. I love the way he pushes his guitar to the limit. Highlights were probably new single Feels Like Summer, Suicide Pact and Salt, Peppa... I'll let photos do the talking now.






Johnny Foreigner - Feels Like Summer
Johnny Foreigner - Camp Kelly Calm