Major Stars

***MAJOR STARS have a new one that might lay it on you all at once like a plank of solid stone, and they’re calling it Return to Form. Starting with a mid-fight school yard threat like “Better Stay Down,” Major Stars do definitely seem to be returning to somewhere on this new new album, maybe even perhaps somewhere adolescent where the rock and roll was never better? Return to Form‘s got eight pieces, all heavy rocks, a few of them come with power jams. There’s also a few just under three minutes, but distinguished by riffage that lifts ’em up. The guitars trio of WAYNE ROGERS, KATE VILLAGE and TOM LEONARD is into their third full album as such, allowing them to have fused into a wall of distorto with a myriad of identities but singular purpose. Behind their ubiquitous combination signal, the drums trample with pummelous authority. (STREET DATE - 1/26/2010)