Album review: Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts – Rogue To Redemption

‘Feet don’t fail me now,’ Tuk Smith implores of himself on Take The Long Way, the first of several would-be hard rock classics on his new band’s second album. The former Biters frontman has seen all this before, has felt the sting of disappointment when things don’t work out, but is one of those guys who somehow meets it all head-on and channels it into positivity. Glorybound, another hook-lined highlight, may spit out a kind of road-worn weariness, but its strident guitars, rippling drums and rocket-powered chorus propel it, like so much of this album, into a happy place. Little Renegade is another of Tuk’s best, a cathartic sing-along delivered in generous and even more uplifting manner. Good as it is, you can’t ignore the fact that Rogue To Redemption does sound...

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