Band : Lynch Mob
Album title : Smoke and Mirrors
Label : Frontiers Records
Distributor : Frontiers – Rough Trade Benelux
Release Date : 18/09/2009
Release : CD

Holy shit. Lynch Mob are back with “Smoke and Mirrors”, an album which all old fans have been expecting for years.  And what an album it is. 

To start with, George Lynch hasn’t lost his guitar playing abilities, and that’s an understatement.  Seventeen years after their first collaboration George  has teamed up again with their first vocalist Lynch Mob ever had, Oni Logan, add to these a fantastic rhythm section consisting of bass player Marco Mendoza (Ted Nugent, Thin Lizzy) and drummer Scott Coogan (Ace Frehley, Brides of Destruction), and you’ve got a clear winner.

Musically after hearing the first songs I immediately was reminded of Ugly Kid Joe, don't ask me why, because this album to my opinion has no fillers, whereas the Ugly Kid Joe albums were relying on a few good tunes, and the other were good, but not exceptional.
Let's hope the time is right for a comeback for this band. They deserve it, after all it wasn't because their songs lacked in quality when they were formed in the eighties. Had there not been someone called Kurt Cobain and had not al the mayor labels jumped upon this style, to generate a few thousand copies, who were all as bad as Nirvana, or even worse, fate might have been different for Lynch Mob.

85/100

Erik Morren.