Ex-Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley is again with one other nice solo album

No shock right here: Ace Frehley has nonetheless received the ability.

The previous Kiss guitarist whose vocal debut got here on 1977’s “Shock Me” is again with “10,000 Volts,” a brand new solo album that is crackling with power and persona.

The title observe is one other electricity-themed track from Frehley, who sustained a significant electrical shock on stage in 1976 from touching an ungrounded steel railing. The foundational guitar riff is true ear sweet, one that may keep in your mind for weeks with only a single hear.

“Up In The Sky” is classic House Ace questioning about mysterious lights within the heavens (“I do know what I noticed!”) and “Cosmic Coronary heart” is a darkish, slower-paced rocker harking back to Kiss’s “She” from 1975.

Frehley stays one in all exhausting rock’s basic guitar pioneers, with a string-bending, blues-based vibrato sound that is immediately recognizable.

“Again Into My Arms Once more” is a holdover from his first solo tour in 1985 that was by no means recorded till now. It is the form of energy ballad MTV ate up within the Eighties; it stays to be seen how properly it would do now.

“Fightin’ For Life” is the album’s hardest rocker, about his days operating with a road gang in New York Metropolis. “Continually Cute” is a catchy pop-rocker marred by really cringe-worthy lyrics that even a puppy-love-smitten 12-year outdated would not use, and “Blinded” takes intention on the dangers of synthetic intelligence.

It ends, as all Ace Frehley solo albums do, with an instrumental within the model and spirit of “Fractured Mirror,” the acoustic-electric composition that closed his self-titled 1978 solo album. This one is named “Stratosphere,” and it highlights Ace’s creativity and songwriting abilities higher than most of the vocal tracks.