Relentless Optmism

The southern, chainsaw wielding, heavy metal hillbillies from good ol' Georgia, USA are back! Jackyl returns with "Relentless"; an album that is very much like their debut in both style and sound, that it is hard to believe it's been almost ten years since the first release. "Relentless" could have easliy been Jackyl's second record and is sure to please Jackyl fans that have been waiting for an album such as this. "Relentless" is the fifth studio album from Jackyl.

To mark its 30th anniversary, the Pet Shop Boys will officially release Relentless, their six-track bonus/mini album that was available as part of a limited 2CD edition of their Very album (known as Very Relentless). The six tracks from Relentless have not been available since the original release (i.e. they didn’t turn up on Very‘s ‘Further Listening’ disc when it came to the reissue) and are now released as a standalone CD for the first time.

Another in a series of undiluted blues-rock offerings from guitarist Walter Trout, Relentless, his 11th disc since 1990, doesn't offer any surprises. Released in conjunction with a DVD, the album was recorded live in the Netherlands club The Paradiso on a single day with little post-production sweetening or audience intervention. This results in a successful balance between sonics and concert sparks. For those who relish his by now standard brand of sturdy, guitar-heavy, Stevie Ray Vaughan-inspired music, Trout is in fine fret-shredding form here. But fans who'd like to see Trout swim in some new waters will find little of that on this outing.