Okay, this is just kind of creepy. It's one thing to be heavily indebted to your musical heroes. Heck, entire subgenres of music are dedicated to sounding as much as possible like
the Beatles,
the Ramones or
Led Zeppelin. But remember that creepy Bridget Fonda movie Single White Female, the one where the girl's new roommate basically mutates into her doppelgänger? For Bridget Fonda, read
AC/DC and you'll have some idea of what's going on with
Adrenaline Factor's debut album. This band could not be more committed to sounding like
Bon Scott-era
AC/DC if the guitarist broke into Angus Young's house and stole his schoolboy uniform. Singer
Lee Scott (!!!) has studied long and hard at the temple of
Bon, and every song on here reveals how dedicated he is to perfecting his note-perfect impersonation of
Bon Scott's long thought inimitable style. Similarly, the band is committed to perfecting that loose, rangy, but hard-hitting rock & roll strut that is
AC/DC's sonic trademark. Even the lyrics and song titles ("Boozin' Susan," "Seven Beer Bitch") are so dead-on that the listener eventually has to wonder if this isn't some kind of deadpan joke. So, props for committing so thoroughly to the concept, but after that, what's the point? ~ Stewart Mason