(Universal) Some people camped out at 5Am on Record Store Day to get the goodies. I slept til 10AM, casually rolled out of bed, arrived at Dusty Groove when the line was 5 folks long, and was likely the only person on North Ashland that day buying the new STYX (at Beverly Records, where dudes who went to High School with STYXers shop, it mighta been a different story). I love contemporary STYX! The new songs are solid; the wildly theatrical Canadian/Scottish singer/keyboardist DeYoung sub is absurdly magnificent; and JY and Tommy seem genuinely powerful these days. This album has new live recordings of a range of classic songs on the B-side and two impressive new cuts by Tommy and semi-STYXer Will Evankovich (who has been writing and producing with the band this Century), and they are decidedly decent! Just got their new LP and biding my time to really listen to it, but this was the perfect appetizer. For me. Not so much for the guy in front of me at RSD who was handed my order bag by mistake and opened it up to the horror of seeing naught but a STYX album. But he shoulda took a hint and grabbed his own copy of these South Side's superstars' super songs.
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