New Albums
DANKO JONES
Power Trio
MATE IN GERMANY
7/10
Canadian veterans stick with what works
The title of Danko Jones’ 10th album very much describes the view in their mirror: the Canadian threesome, named for their singer, have long upheld the guitar-bass-drums creed with a fervour verging on the fanatical, forging a sound somewhere between the bubblegum garage of Green Day and the wall-of-fuzz punk of Hüsker Dü. Power Trio tampers with the template not even slightly, a collection of big-hearted, good-humoured, riff-revving rockers. The picks include “Let’s Rock Together”, which sounds exactly like a song entitled “Let’s Rock Together” should, and “Saturday”, a bait-and-switch paean to the joys of domesticity which makes the most of Jones’ vocal resemblance to AC/DC’s Bon Scott.