No Guts. No Glory.

In 2007 the Aussie hard rock band Airbourne released their first full album “Runnin’ Wild”. This album was a great success in the rock and roll world getting good reviews pretty much across the bored, being praised for the adrenalin pumping and all round solid sound. However, it was inevitable that comparisons between them and probably one of the biggest bands in history, AC/DC (who also happen to come from that land we all like to call Australia), were going to be made. And Airbourne did little to avoid such comparisons, having done little (if anything) in the way of innovation in that album – to the untrained ear you could easily mistake much of it for AC/DC.

Three years on Airbourne have released their much awaited second album, “No Guts. No Glory” and in all honesty nothing has changed, their sound is still very much Aussie pub rock that their heroes AC/DC pioneered years before them. However, have you ever heard the phrase “if it aint broke, don’t fix it”? And if it applies to anything, it applies to this album. Yet again Airbourne have pumped out fast, all action tracks with everything rock and roll requires – sex, drugs and rock and roll. Many of these songs, such as “No Way But the Hard Way” and “Back on the Bottle”, have rapidly found their way into my most-listened-to list on my iPod and I often find my self silently singing along with a frown of concentration on my face during my bus journeys to and from college. One of the odd downers with this album was that as soon as I ripped it into my iTunes library it insisted it was “pop” instead of rock, this made me very upset and I promptly changed it.

The big question you should be asking is “is it worth getting this album”. This album may or may not appeal to you, it depends on a few things:

• Do you like AC/DC?
• Did you like Airbourne’s last album?
• Do you like good music?

If the answers to all of the above were yes, then I’d say get the album. I did, and I was bloody pleased with it!