Oh, my my my. The hairspray lies thick in the air tonight. With the first few chords of “Heartbreaker” I could already feel the ozone layer cowering in fear. Crossfire is a typical glam act of notable quality. If these guys would have been around in the 80’s they would have for sure been on the Billboard charts. Rikki Reckless (heheheh his real name is um, slightly more Israeli than that, I’m sure) has a voice reminiscent of Kip WInger/the dude from Britney Fox…that boy must be wearing some pretty tight jeans in the studio, yo, cause he can hit excruciatingly high notes. Anyway, flamboyant guitar expertise that blows away most glam bands, those glammy kinda keyboards, and token ballad (All I Need), lyrical content and..whatever, everything you ever heard out of an 80’s glam band is available here but you couldn’t pick out a specific band and say “This is who they sound like.” Avi Diamond (Orphaned Land) laid down the drum tracks on this disc. And the recording production is basically impeccable. You can tell they put money into this.

When listening to “Never Give It Up” I can’t help but feel cynical as to the chances of their success in the music environment today. But hey, Cinderella, Poison, Warrant, all of those guys are still playing high-selling national arena tours in the States (albeit with more than two bands on one bill) so who knows?