KISS Re-Harness Appeal

KISS Re-Harness Appeal

By James McNair

MOJO

KISS "Sonic Boom" - their first studio album in 11 years.

Astonishingly, Sonic Boom finds our preposterous, yet ever-entertaining rockers remembering they were a band before they were a brand. Dispensing with outside songwriters, linchpins Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have knuckled down alongside Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer to make a rock n' roll record with mid-70s KISS albums as their vindicated yardstick.

Danger Us, an unlikely tale of TNT-like sexual chemistry betwixt rocker and unnamed rock chick, is about as subtle as things get, but on the early-Zep-like I'm An Animal and short, poppy Never Enough, KISS re-harnesses the appealing swagger that originally lay beneath the greasepaint.

All that said, in the U.S., Sonic Boo