Young & Dangerous

by The Struts

Overview

The second full-length outing from the bombastic British rockers, Young & Dangerous picks right up where the Struts' 2014 debut, the bawdy, neo-glam pop fest Everybody Wants, left off. No longer just a showcase for charismatic Jagger/Mercury-esque frontman Luke Spiller -- he is still an alveolar trill-seeking force of nature -- the 13-track set plays out like a Mutt Lange production with Mark Ronson at the helm. This is stadium hard rock for the streaming generation, a neon-streaked cornucopia of seismic earworm hooks that yield tectonic plate-shaking choruses, all dressed up in a glitzy Slade meets Imagine Dragons wrapper. It's also a shit-ton of fun, the direct antithesis to the group's retrofitted contemporaries Greta Van Fleet's painfully derivative sophomore effort, Anthem of the Peaceful Army, which arrived just a week prior. Lead singles "Bulletproof Baby," "Primadonna Like Me," and "Body Talks," the latter of which serves as a bookend, with a souped-up, Kesha-assisted electropop version doubling as the closer, are as immediate and infectious as they are brazenly forged in fires that have long been reduced to ash. Self-aware and unrepentant, the Struts succeed where other artists who look to the past often fail, in large part because, like the Darkness before them, they possess both pop smarts and considerable amounts of moxie. They may not be capable of staging a second British Invasion, but they sure would put on a helluva Super Bowl halftime show. ~ James Christopher Monger

Product Details

Release Date:	12/07/2018
Label:	Interscope / Polydor
UPC:	0602577033193
Rank:	37134

Tracks

1. Body Talks
2. Prima Donna like Me
3. In Love with a Camera
4. Bulletproof Baby
5. Who Am I?
6. People
7. Fire, Pt. 1
8. Somebody New
9. Tatler Magazine
10. I Do It So Well
11. Freak like You
12. Ashes, Pt. 2
13. Body Talks

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Struts   Primary Artist
Kesha   Featured Artist
Adam Slack   Guitar
Luke Spiller   Vocals
Jed Elliott   Bass
Gethin Davies   Drums

Technical Credits

Ray Hedges   Additional Production,Mixing,Composer,Producer
Claudius Mittendorfer   Mixing
Butch Walker   Composer,Engineer,Producer
Sam Hollander   Composer,Producer
Neal Avron   Mixing
Rick Parkhouse   Composer
Nick Lashley   Producer
Jon Levine   Mixing,Composer,Producer
Jolie Clemens   Design
Tony Esterly   Additional Production
Emily Frye   Design
Nigel Butler   Mixing,Composer,Producer,Additional Production
Josh Wilkinson   Composer
Grant Michaels   Composer
George Tizzard   Composer
Ted Jensen   Mastering
Kevin Griffin   Composer,Producer
Lauren Christy   Composer,Producer
Gregg Alexander   Producer
Mark Endert   Mixing,Additional Production
Red Triangle   Producer
Todd Stopera   Engineer
The Struts   Art Direction
Joel Jensen   Illustrations
Adam Slack   Composer,Group Member
Luke Spiller   Composer,Producer,Group Member
Scott Skrzynski   Mixing Assistant
Jed Elliott   Composer,Group Member
Gethin Davies   Composer,Group Member
Anna Lee   Photography
Drew Magary   Liner Notes
Hugo Stevenson   Art Coordinator